E86: Gaza screams for help. Why won’t Europe listen?
Channel: DiEM25
Date: 2023-10-24

We’re more than two weeks into the implacable collective punishment of the Palestinian people by Israel. Thousands of civilians have been killed, most of them children, in a campaign that has Palestinians and Western activists and academics ringing the alarm bells of genocide.

And yet our European leaders seem incapable to see anything but Israel exercising its “right to self-defence”. Unelected Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered her unqualified support to Israel, with not a word about respect for the rights of Palestinians. French leader Emmanuel Macron criminalised pro-Palestine protests, as did German chancellor Olaf Scholz—who has also called for less refugees coming into Germany, and even for mass deportations.

How independent can Europe be, when it falls so nakedly in line with the US’ position on the conflict? What’s really behind these cowardly moves of our 'leaders'? And what can all of us, watching the horrors unfold on our screens, do about it?

That’s what our panel, including Yanis Varoufakis, Erik Edman and Julijana Zita, will discuss. Join us and put your questions to them live!

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0:00 [Introduction] Lucas Febraro
3:32 Yanis Varoufakis
22:29 Lucas Febraro
26:25 Judith Meyer
33:00 Questions and comments from the chat
33:41 Panos Stenos
37:49 Amir Kiayei
43:36 Questions and comments from the chat
44:47 Davide Castro
47:02 Erik Edman
56:15 Johannes Fehr
1:00:28 Questions and comments from the chat
1:01:28 Yanis Varoufakis
1:02:19 [Conclusion] Mehran Khalili

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