A 🇵🇸 woman dedicated to fighting for justice & freedom from settler colonial regime.
Jun 14 • 4 tweets • 6 min read
Someone in a closed room in Mexico City on 20–22 May chose to stay silent. For three weeks, a private remark by the EU’s foreign-policy chief — comparing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to apartheid — went nowhere. Then, the exact week France & Germany circulate a paper to dismantle her diplomatic service and four days before foreign ministers convene in Luxembourg: it surfaces. Not as recognition of a legal reality. As a scandal about her. That is not a leak. That is a decision. And the framing that travels — “unacceptable, not EU policy” — tells you whose decision it was. 🧵
↳ Euractiv — apartheid remark in Mexico City, 20–22 May; office declines comment: ejpress.org/eu-foreign-aff…
↳ Middle East Eye — confirms report; EU diplomat: “unacceptable and not EU policy”: middleeasteye.net/news/eu-foreig…
↳ FT via NV — French paper to dismantle EEAS circulates same week, 11 June: english.nv.ua/nation/eu-weig…
The campaign that follows has two distinct engines — and they converge on the same target. External: the American Jewish Committee demands she “retract,” framing accuracy as delegitimisation. The European Jewish Association lobbies EU foreign ministers directly to “distance themselves” from her — days before they meet in Luxembourg. Armin Laschet — Chair of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee, founder of the Abraham Accords Institute — calls her words “antisemitic outbursts” and says Europe needs “personalities up to the task.” That is a removal demand. Internal: Kallas is simultaneously besieged from within — Rubio won’t meet her, Wang Yi won’t see her, Fico has called for her replacement since January, and von der Leyen’s Commission — which Kallas privately calls a “dictatorship” — is building parallel intelligence structures and manoeuvring to absorb her competences. Coordinated or convergent, the effect is one: the EU’s only formal foreign-policy channel is being broken over a word.
1/🚨 The ICC has officially rejected Israel’s attempt to cancel the arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant — and refused to suspend the Prosecutor’s investigation in Palestine.
A landmark ruling. Here’s what the Court said and why it matters. 🧵👇
16 July 2025 decision 2/ Israel made 4 main legal arguments:
1.The Court has no jurisdiction
2.The arrest warrants violate human rights
3.States would be pressured to break international law
4.The investigation must be suspended while jurisdiction is challenged
