“Stick that they never used” 😉

Sanctions, suspension of trade benefits, ban of settlement trade - as explained in the piece.

7/7 This is not the time to ease pressure, but to double down on it.

The EU should finally act on its own findings and supposed values, uphold international law, and end the impunity that’s enabled decades of occupation, apartheid, and acts of #genocide www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

6/7 All those measures - sanctions, suspension of EU-Israel deal, settlement trade ban - are listed in the annex to the "New York Declaration", led by France & KSA and widely endorsed by UNGA, incl. 25/27 EU states: docs.un.org/en/A/CONF.24...

Yet few, if any, have followed up on those commitments

5/7 What's appallingly not on the EU table is a ban of trade with settlements.

All EU states rightly say they're illegal, and "an obstacle to a two state solution". Then why does the EU keep trading with them, feeding war crimes, occupation and apartheid? hrw.org/news/2025/02...

4/7 But even if EU states only cared about the ceasefire, they should be wary of its likely spoilers - and ethnic cleansing advocates - in Israel's cabinet timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent... - and finally sanction them, as UK CAN AUS NZ NW did 👉 www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/d...

3/7 The EU's own review of Israel's (non-)compliance with the human rights clause of the bilateral Agreement looked not only at Gaza, but at the whole Occupied Palestinian Territory, citing damning UN reports & ICJ rulings

Israel cannot be compliant with a human rights clause AND commit apartheid

2/7 A ceasefire may have finally stopped the bombs, but Israel's criminal siege, occupation, apartheid, oppression, torture, settlement enterprise and impunity continue unabated.

And the EU knows it very well 👇
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