🧵1/9 Unsurprisingly, Israel’s government lashed out at the EU's report confirming its massive breaches of human rights & international law - just as EU foreign ministers prepare to discuss it.

Let’s unpack Israel’s talking points - and dismantle them one by one ⤵️...

https://twitter.com/euronews/status/1936883337542476236

2/9 Israel complains it wasn’t allowed to “defend itself” in the report

Palestinians weren’t either. Nor were Israeli NGOs, whose damning findings echo what the report concludes. Facts do not require Israeli approval to be valid.

Also: Israel was heard - at the ICJ. And lost.

1/ Very important remarks by @JosepBorrellF after #EU MFAs' meeting on #Israel/#Gaza:

#Borrell was as unequivocal in condemning #Hamas's crimes as were other EU leaders

But unlike them, he didn't forget IHL exists and Palestinians are people

A thread ⤵️eeas.europa.eu/eeas/israelgaz… 2/ Borrell repeatedly stressed #Israel has the right to defend itself from #Hamas, but has to do so in compliance with international humanitarian law

"...cutting water, electricity & food to a mass of civilian people is against int'l law" he said, also referencing UN statements

🧵 Across the Mediterranean and beyond, the EU's foreign policy has been obsessively focused on one goal: keeping people away - whatever abuses they have to suffer.

The implications of this deliberate choice are devastating:

A thread 👇🏽 politico.eu/article/tunisi…
1⃣ A controversial "Team Europe" goes to #Tunisia, where Saied staged a coup, jailed opponents, exposed Black Africans to horrendous abuses

One would expect EU measures (or at least words!) to address that

But nope. Saied is fine, just keep migrants away and EU money will flow

1/6) #EUChina: sadly, @JosepBorrellF's speech at #EPlenary (bit.ly/3j7zTGn) makes it clear Europe is still far from understanding - and most of all addressing - the worrying, underlying reasons why Beijing is de facto siding with #Russia on #Ukraine

A thread 👇🏽 2/6) Beijing has long been working to dismantle decades of progress in the int'l human rights system and replace it with one that allows for its systematic repression and atrocity crimes: hrw.org/news/2020/09/1…

In this, authoritarian govts like Russia's are its "natural" allies