2d ago

Will the EU finally stop financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza?

www.statewatch.org

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34009143

Last Tuesday, the European Commission proposed to partially suspend Israel from its €80bn Horizon science research programme, citing the “severe” humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But this proposal comes late, after years of funding military-linked research with minimal transparency or accountability. As the death toll mounts and Gazans face man-made famine, the EU’s role in bankrolling violence is under scrutiny.

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there's some kind of rule where if there headline is a yes/no question, the answer is always "no".
- Yes, but lately I've found that to be insufficient. The full form is: If a headline is a question, the answer is always the one where people who need to act morally don't. Will the EU stop financing Israel's genocide? No. Will climate change kill us all? Yes. Will the Supreme Court stop Trump from doing a bad thing? No. Is free speech in Britain dead? Yes.
- Questions in headlines are bullshit. My undergrad copywriting prof would’ve insta-failed anyone who wrote them.
Title is very misleading. EU is not financing the genocide. Crappy article in general.
According to the link in this article it's about.
The drone manufacturer, Xtend, received €50,000 from the EU’s Horizon Europe budget to produce a feasibility study that, amongst other things, identified steps to optimise a prototype of its Skylord Xtender drone system and to help find “[k]ey strategic partners for the production and commercialisation” of the technology.
- “from 2014 to 2020, Israeli organizations, including military companies and institutions, were involved 2105 times and received 1,28 billion Euros from the EU.”
  I don't know man, funding the military companies of an apartheid regime doing slo-mo ethnic cleansing in the West Bank counts in my view.
  The article then goes on to cite recent rulings that hamper access to information about the results of publicly funded projects and then just connects the dots, saying that on the one hand we've been funding the Innovation infrastructure of the regime and on the other we've been keeping information about what happens with the funds away from public scrutiny. So when the regime goes full genocidal, this is a potent mix for our taxes being used for crimes without any accountability.
- What would you define as funding? Direct salaries to the people who torture and kill?
- Just look where the message comes from. OP's intention is to let Europe and Western democracies look bad. The somewhat ironic bit is that there would be enough reason for legitimate critique, though the propaganda accounts only look at the clickbait-like title, often.even followed by just a few short paragraphs (and I'm wondering whether OP even reads these few lines tbh).
  
  so you’re saying there’s only propaganda accounts posting on Europe?
  well, that’s a shame…
  
  OP's intention is to let Europe and Western democracies look bad.
  Uh... again, your Europe and Western democracies are literally funding a genocide. You're Israel's biggest trade partner, still have a preferential trade agreement with them after almost two years of genocide and you think you don't already look bad? And that's before we even get into all the other crimes against humanity Europe has assisted or quietly observed in the past few decades.

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