Die EU -Kommission lehnt die Bemerkung von VP Ribera ab
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-rejects-vice-president-ribera-genocide-remarks-israel-gaza/
Von Misztral
Die EU -Kommission lehnt die Bemerkung von VP Ribera ab
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-rejects-vice-president-ribera-genocide-remarks-israel-gaza/
Von Misztral
24 Kommentare
Just look who´s in charge of the Commission.
Oh no, we mustn’t use the bad G-word!
Genocide apologists.
What a fking catastrophe it was to reelect this subservient pet as an EU Commisioner. I couldn’t believe it when I first heard Von der Leyen is taking again the helm of EU. A freaking doormat would have been a better choice than her. NEVER forget the parties / MPs who voted for her.
Fine by me. Maybe holocaust is a better word if you hate the G-word that much. Gaza holocaust then.
Cowards
[Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-worlds-top-scholars-on-the-say)
International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted
You can’t gaslight the world forever. History will remember the part you played in this.
Here we go again. Reddit being reddit.
And then the West has the hypocrisy to say that Xi’s summit was a group of people „against the rules based order“.
While the West routinely picks and chooses which rules apply to which countries.
As a spanish citizen, I feel terribly infantilized by the absurd and masochistic condescendence of german politicians because of the dismissal of Ribera’s remark.
That dismissal feels like an insult, both to intelligence and our people. It’s like my voice count less than the one of a german or french citizen for the sole reason of being born here.
Maybe my feelings are a bit exaggerated, but I further dislike Von der Leyen each day that passes. I love the Union, and I really want it to prosper. But these kind of tomfooleries makes it harder.
So they’re genocide deniers, then.
“It’s not up to the Commission to judge on this question and definition, but really for the courts,”
This is the correct answer. The EU should not make **legal conclusions** based on opinions of morality, and the courts have indeed not found israel to be committing genocide as per the **legal** definition.
Holocaust deniers, history will remeber their complicity
Booking their place in history as genocide deniers, congratulations
Dear EU, please stop licking Germany’s boots in this. A lesson learned would be standing up to genozide, not blindly defending those committing it.
Sincerely, a German
Well I’m quite surprised how disappointing that remark is from the commission. As if our moral responsibility to gaza begins when the court rules. The EU has a trade agreement with Israel that the commission itself negotiated that includes a responsibility to uphold human rights. If that article 2 could only begin when a court rules against Israel it is meaningless.
If course that’s not true at all. The commission can invoke that clause without any court ruling. The target country can take the commission to court of it feels agrieved. That way the EU doesn’t have to wait 3 years between the act breaking the human rights clause and it’s response.
The EU is failing and important test and my support for the EU is being seriously damaged. Countries like Ireland and Spain , and perhaps the netherlands and France would have implemented trade sanctions against Israel by now and we are being held back by EU members such as Germany and others.
The EU is taking damage for its support of Israel.
Ribers should resign or not make a statement like that. Even if you agree with her stance, it undermines the EU’s credibility and just exposes its inability to act on this issue, when she says something like this on her own.
The absolutely backwards logic they’re using:
P1: The genocide convention demands we act to stop genocide.
P2: We don’t want to act to stop Israel.
C: Therefore, Israel isn’t committing genocide.
Don’t these fucking morons ever think Russia uses Israel’s genocide as justification to continue their own genocidal campaign? This hypocrisy is a strategic blunder leading to catastrophic consequences emboldening the global far-right. We are all so very fucked
Then fuck the EU Commission. Zionism is an ideology which deserves universal condemnation, and now we’re seeing what the effects of this ideology are. What a disgrace, I hope that some day the ICC issues arrest warrants for the main accomplices of genocide in Europe.
Way to go Europe, way to go
Disgusting genocide deniers.
Because it’s not.
If Israel is commiting a genocide then so is China’s treatment of the Uyghurs. Or Russia’s ethnic cleansing of occupied parts of Ukraine, where they’ve literally taken Ukrainian children and moved them all throughout Russia. You either do something about all genocides or shut up. Because if you decide to ignore the rest and focus on only one, then it is obvious it’s not really about the genocide, it’s just an excuse.