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Martin Konečný Profile picture
Martin Konečný
@MartinKonecny
Running EuMEP (European Middle East Project) in Brussels, promoting just & fact-based EU policy on Israel/Palestine.
Nov 20, 2025 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Scandalous UN voting shift by Germany, Italy, Hungary, Czechia, Bulgaria & Latvia - withholding support for extending UNRWA's mandate, despite ongoing Gaza humanitarian apocalypse and the ICJ validating UNRWA's indispensable role just last month. yahoo.com/news/articles/…Image In vote on a second UNRWA-related resolution yesterday, those 6 EU countries were further joined by Austria, Romania & Lithuania. In previous years, all EU-27 voted in favour of these resolutions.

Why shift now? Only to align further with Israel & deal another blow to int'l law. Image
Sep 26, 2025 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
🧵The UN published updated database of companies involved in Israeli settlements. What does it mean for Europe?

The new version includes 158 companies: 138 Israeli, 12 European, 6 US, 1 Canadian, 1 Chinese.

That's up from 112 (incl. 11 European) in the initial 2020 version. The 12 listed European companies, per country (new additions *):
- Spain 4 (!): ACS*, CAF*, Ineco*, SEMI*
- France 2: Egis, Egis Rail
- UK 2: Greenkote, JCB Excavators
- Luxembourg 1: Altice
- Netherlands 1: Booking .com
- Germany 1: Heidelberg Materials*
- Portugal 1: Steconfer*
Sep 13, 2025 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
🧵Whatever one thinks of cultural boycotts, this is peak example of double standards.

The Munich Philharmonic fired Russian conductor over stance on Ukraine - no protest.

Belgian festival cancels Israeli conductor of the Munich Philharmonic over stance on Gaza - "antisemitism"! Image
Image Some people say: You can't compare, Valery Gergiev is close to Putin, Lahav Shani has said he wants to see peace. But that's not the point!

In both cases, the conductors were asked to distance themselves from their government's immoral wars - and both refused. Image
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Sep 1, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I see folks who’d strongly reject anyone blaming Crimea annexation on EU support for Maidan now sharing this as some kind of a valid point of view. /1 It’s even more of a bogus claim in this case as the Israeli push for annexation has been mounting for months & years. Only if you’ve been wilfully blind to all the steps and pronouncements👇can you fall for this. /2 peacenow.org.il/en/the-year-of…
Jul 28, 2025 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Some precedents & context of EU blocking funds under the Horizon Europe research program - showing how limited the proposed suspension for Israel is.

5 precedents:

1) Russia: EU terminated all Horizon funding in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine 2) Belarus: halted due to worsening human rights situation following 2020 elections as well as involvement in Russia's Ukraine war

3) Hungary: 30 Hungarian universities & institutions barred from Horizon over rule of law and academic freedom concerns since 2022
Jul 12, 2025 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
.@EUobs scandalous story on EU antisemitism envoy @kschnurbein now accessible without paywall, incl. leaked notes from her closed-door EU briefing.

Here are some of the craziest points – from an EU official supposed to promote fundamental values:🧵
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-wor… .@kschnurbein gives EU staff "bake sales for Gaza" as example of "ambient antisemitism".

Bake sales for Gaza are fundraisers for Red Cross organised by EUstaff4peace, committed civil servants guided by EU principles & humanitarian values👇
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Feb 21, 2025 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
🧵On Monday, EU will hold Association Council with Israel, the highest political platform for bilat. relations.

Takes place at a critical moment in Gaza ceasefire - w/Netanyahu suspected of planning to derail it - and Israeli escalation in West Bank.

Can EU exert any influence? It can, of course. EU is Israel's biggest trading partner (32% of imports, 26% of exports in 2022).

The key to using this leverage lies in Article 2 of EU-Israel Association Agreement.

The AA is the basis for EU-Israel relationship, esp. trade on preferential terms.
Jan 9, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
❗️Piotr Hofmański, former Polish president of the ICC, slams Polish government's decision to protect Netanyahu from the ICC arrest warrant:

"This will harm Poland greatly in the international arena. ... There is an int'l legal obligation to fully cooperate with the ICC and a state that does not fulfill this obligation puts itself in a very uncomfortable situation. ... From a legal point of view, the matter is clear as day. There is an arrest warrant against the PM of Israel on suspicion of committing war crimes and states are obliged to execute it.
Dec 20, 2024 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Catastrophic and irresponsible decision by Sweden.

Calling on Israel not to dismantle UNRWA and then pre-emptively defunding the UN agency themselves.

Consider how absurd and self-contradictory this is on several leves. 🧵1/x 1) Here, the responsible Swedish minister who just visited Palestine mentions stories of women & children in Gaza that were "among the worst I have heard".

Yet in the same breath, he's ending funds for UNRWA - the very lifeline for those women &children.
Dec 2, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
🧵A few more points on the French position on the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

Bottomline: there's very likely no immunity for Netanyahu in France, despite the MFA announcement last Wednesday.

There have been 2 developments since then: 1) On Thursday, @francediplo spox gave further clarifications.

- The arrest warrant will be "up to the judiciary", not the French government.

- "There has been no change in position" between the arrest warrants for Putin and Netanyahu. diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/salle-de-pr…
Nov 23, 2024 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Western gov't reactions to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli & Hamas leaders:

1.Backing for ICC:🇮🇪🇧🇪🇸🇮🇩🇰🇳🇱🇫🇮🇨🇦🇱🇮🇪🇸🇪🇺🇦🇺🇳🇴🇸🇪🇵🇹

2.Backing with caveats or vagueness:🇫🇷🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇹🇷🇴🇪🇪🇱🇹🇨🇾🇨🇭

3.Critical of ICC decision but compliant:🇨🇿🇦🇹🇭🇷🇧🇬

4.Fully against:🇺🇸🇭🇺

Links & detail below⏩ The links to statements are below in two threads (as it got broken). Here is the first part👇

NB: Generally, only reactions by foreign ministries or prime ministers are included - not other politicians.
Nov 21, 2024 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
🧵Tracking Western government reactions to ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders Netanyahu and Gallant and Hamas leader Deif. 🇪🇺EU foreign policy chief: the decisions are binding for all ICC member states incl. all EU countries
Jul 20, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Tracking international reactions to the groundbreaking ICJ advisory opinion on the Israeli occupation.

A test of governments' commitment to international rule of law. 🇳🇴Norway: ICJ confirms it's annexation. Israel must comply with the opinion.
Jun 8, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Stunning to see Western leaders celebrate the rescue of 4 Israeli hostages WITHOUT ANY mention of the 100+ Palestinians killed in the operation.

🧵with statements: German chancellor Scholz - no mention of 100+ Palestinians killed in the operation
May 20, 2024 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Listing government reactions to ICC prosecutor's application for arrest warrants against leaders of Israel and Hamas.

Scored on a 1-10 scale from the highest to the lowest support for the ICC.

Limited to European & Western govts. 🇧🇪Belgium - 1
Apr 25, 2024 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
Belated🧵on @MinColonna's report on UNRWA.

Media coverage has (rightly) focused on Israel's failure to provide evidence of its allegations. That's indeed the main takeaway.

But there's a 2nd layer to the story: Colonna's bias and bending to Israel's & Western donors' politics. That's visible if you compare Colonna's report with the underlying report by the 3 Nordic research institutes that worked with her on the review (posted here: ). Colonna's report is based on the researchers' report but differs significantly. passblue.com/wp-content/upl…
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Apr 6, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Outrage in Poland over Israel's killing of Polish aid worker in Gaza. Government demands:
- international investigation with PL participation
- Polish prosecutor to participate in criminal procedure against responsible Israeli soldiers
- compensation for aid worker's relatives
🧵 Polish defence minister: “We demand an international investigation into the case, we demand that Poland also participate in the investigation… which resulted in the death of our compatriot.” tvpworld.com/76791416/polis…
Jan 26, 2024 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
🧵Listing government reactions to the ICJ order for provisional measures on Gaza today (will limit this to European & Western govts) 👇 🇪🇺EU: "Orders of the ICJ are binding on the Parties and they must comply with them. The EU expects their full, immediate and effective implementation." eeas.europa.eu/eeas/icj-joint…
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Jan 25, 2024 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
🧵How will Western gov'ts respond to ICJ's expected order for "provisional measures" on Gaza tomorrow?

Let's look at precedents.

In the Myanmar, Ukraine & Syria cases at ICJ, Western states stressed that ICJ provisional measures are binding and must be fully implemented. A. MYANMAR (the closest precedent).

1) EU response to ICJ provisional measures:
"Myanmar must now fully implement the provisional measures of the Court’s order (...). The implementation of the provisional measures is compulsory under international law." https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/myanmar-statement-spokesperson-icj-ruling-case-brought-gambia-against-myanmar_en
Oct 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Hundreds of professional civil servants in Western governments are expressing disagreement with their political leaders' one-sided support for Israel's Gaza offensive.

See cases in this thread:
- US State Department
- European Commission
- Dutch MFA

This is unprecedented. 👇 US State Dept officials are preparing a dissent cable over Biden's Israel-Palestine policy. “There’s basically a mutiny brewing within State at all levels,” one official said. huffpost.com/entry/state-de…
Mar 21, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
🧵1) The @EURightsAgency (FRA) is conducting a large new survey of perceptions of antisemitism among 1000s of Jewish Europeans. But there's a very problematic bias in some of the questions, based on the controversial IHRA definition. Have a look >> 2) The survey asks whether respondents encountered various "forms of antisemitism", incl.:
- "Denying Israel the right to exist as a State"
- "Comparing Israel's policy to the Nazi policy"
- "Applying double standards to Israel's gov't when comparing to other democratic States"