We won't forget how von der Leyen enabled a holocaust in Gaza
After backing Israel, European Commission boss pretends to care about Palestinians.
Holocaust abuser Urusla von der Leyen. (Dali Bendo/European Union)
Ursula von der Leyen must be hoping that everyone has a very short memory.
In recent weeks, the European Commission president has been pretending that she cares about Palestinian lives.
On 1 March – the day after Israel massacred at least 118 people as they waited for food – von der Leyen claimed she was “disturbed” by images from Gaza.
Since then, she has promised to do everything possible so that humanitarian aid reaches Palestinians.
Contrary to what von der Leyen may hope, there are plenty of us who do not forget things easily.
We have not forgotten October 2023.
We have not forgotten how at the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Ursula von der Leyen sided with Israel.
We have not forgotten how the European Commission arranged for the facade of the Berlaymont, its headquarters here in Brussels, to be illuminated with a massive Israeli flag.
We have not forgotten how Ursula von der Leyen paid a visit to Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli politicians.
We have not forgotten how Ursula von der Leyen pledged total solidarity to Israel at a time its government ministers were describing Palestinians as “human animals” and ordering that they be starved of food, fuel and water.
We have not forgotten November 2023 either.
We have not forgotten how Ursula von der Leyen marked the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht by circulating a photograph of herself at the Holocaust monument in Berlin.
We have not forgotten that Ursula von der Leyen used the slogan “never again is now”.
We have not forgotten that by doing so Ursula von der Leyen abused the Holocaust.
It is hollow and hypocritical to use the slogan “never again is now” unless you really mean that no holocaust should ever occur again.
Right at this very moment, a holocaust is being carried out in Gaza.
We have not forgotten how Ursula von der Leyen facilitated a holocaust in Gaza by offering her total support to Israel, the state carrying out that holocaust.
Kristallnacht was an evil episode of mass destruction targeting Jews in Germany.
For the people of Gaza, every night is a Kristallnacht or even worse.
For more than five months, Israel has been inflicting mass destruction on Gaza.
Israel has been able to get away with doing so because a number of powerful governments have provided it with weapons and given it diplomatic cover.
The United States is the chief enabler of the holocaust in Gaza.
But it is not the only one.
Expert on genocide
Germany is giving major assistance to Israel at the International Court of Justice, which found in January that there is a plausible case genocide is being perpetrated against Palestinians.
We have not forgotten that Germany is an expert on committing genocide.
We have not forgotten that Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century.
We have not forgotten the Herero and Nama peoples in southwest Africa, who were victims of that genocide.
We have not forgotten the millions of Jews murdered by Germany in the 1940s.
We have not forgotten how Germany became a key ally of and donor to Israel in that state’s formative period.
We have not forgotten how Germany helped entrench Israel’s apartheid system.
We have forgotten how Germany backed Israel financially so that Germany itself could gain respectability after the Holocaust.
We have not forgotten how Germany has refused to learn any lessons from its past.
We have not forgotten how Germany has lately been cracking down on protests in its own cities against the Gaza genocide.
We have not forgotten how Germany has tried to make robust criticism of Israel taboo.
We have not forgotten that Ursula von der Leyen is a representative of Germany posing as the boss of Europe.
We have not forgotten the duplicity of Ursula von der Leyen.
And we can assure Ursula von der Leyen that we are not going to forget.
Thanks David. I used to be an EU supporter (and lived in Brussels for a few years) but the behaviour of VDL and the Commission are beyond the pale. VDL's capacity to echo the lies about Israel ("making the desert bloom", among others) are beneath contempt. Germans plead they have a special responsibility towards Israel; seemingly this is more important than their duty to humanity and human rights. The media's failure to call out the hypocrisy renders them fully complicit too. This is an absolutely abhorrent.