Letter to EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Ms. Kaja Kallas

9 August 2025

Ms. Kaja Kallas

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Vice-President of the European Commission 

Wetstraat 200 / 1040, Brussels

Belgium

Dear Ms. Kallas,

Re: The European Union’s Failure to Act to Stop Israel’s Genocide in Gaza and to Hold it Accountable

The European Union with its vast diplomatic, military, and economic ties to Israel has failed to stop its genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes that commenced on 7 October 2023.[1] No military humanitarian intervention was pursued against Israel nor were any sanctions applied. The EU – Israel Association Agreement remains in place.[2]

Leading EU countries did not understand the act of resistance from Gaza of 7 October 2023 relying on Israel’s distorted articulation of the events of that day. Israel’s version was based on censoring the fact that Israeli forces killed most of Israeli civilians that day. Other lies particularly about the rape of women were spread and irresponsibly repeated by EU diplomats particularly Germany’s Foreign Minister Ms. Annalena Baerbock.

The EU is an ally of Israel and the United States. Most of its countries oppose Palestinians’ rights during deliberations at the U.N. General Assembly and the U.N. Security Council. EU countries do not seem to give regard to the solid reality of Israel being a colonial and apartheid state that its policies and status have been twice condemned by the International Court of Justice advisory opinions. The EU maintained crippling silence during South Africa’s case before the ICJ accusing Israel with perpetrating genocide.[3] Recent pronouncement by leaders of some EU state members about the intent to recognize a Palestinian statehood do not reach the level of symbolic gestures let alone concrete and effective diplomacy aimed at capturing Palestinians’ rights fully: statehood on all the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967 including East Jerusalem, evacuating of all settlers from those territories, forming an international tribunal to investigate Israeli governmental / military / political leaders for committing genocide and other serious international crimes, release all of Palestinian political prisoners, genuine return of 1948 Palestinian refugees to their origin of displacement, dismantling Israel’s apartheid Zionist structure that would secure equal standing for those Palestinians who were not ethnically cleansed in 1948 outside of Palestine’s borders, paying reparations for atrocities in the past decades since 1948, and expressing apology for Zionism’s and Israel’s appalling perpetual crimes against Palestinians.       

Germany and Britain stood out in their military and diplomatic support to Israel’s murderous campaign that forms genocide. Germany’s conduct was fueled by complacent public opinion while Britain’s outrageous military and diplomatic behavior took place despite lively opposition. Britain also participated with the United States in illegal hostilities against Yemen’s humanitarian intervention in the Red Sea reminiscent to the 1956 tripartite aggression against Egypt. Its Foreign Minister David Cameron threatened the International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor with funding elimination should he proceed with an investigation and prosecution against Israel. The British military engaged in hostile activities against Palestinians in Gaza in support of the Israeli military throughout Israel’s onslaught. Disgracefully calamitous. EU’s position regarding Israel’s violation of the ceasefire on 18 March 2025 green lighted by the Trump administration including CENTCOM’s Michael Kurilla was ‘shameful’.[4]  

Many of the EU countries, certainly Britain, have followed the catastrophic lead of the Biden and Trump administrations. Both have been under congressional and presidential domination by the Israel lobby with its ludicrous list of donors, decadent cultural representations, indefensible legal framework, and one-on-one covert conversations with the American president.

Most Palestinians are blessed with God’s faith and love. Rich regional and international anti-colonial, anti-apartheid, and anti – imperial traditions inform their healthy political consciousness. Their multidimensional values are sound. Palestinians hardly consider themselves as regional cards in America’s and the EU’s geopolitical interests or an objective of their failed internal political systems. The attempt to promote Mahmoud Abbas twenty years ago as a ‘moderate’ and ‘reformed’ Third World leader obedient to the ‘West’ resulted in generating a parody of a despot who remains under Israel’s rule of colonial occupation and apartheid. His main struggle has not been for the liberation of his people, but rather against the popular political prisoner Marwan Barghouti framed by Israel’s traditional torturous legal system and its sickening constant accusatorial terrorism. Abbas’s authoritarian approach towards Gaza is no less harmful than America’s attempts to undermine Palestinian democratic processes.[5] 

In today’s digital world, historical judgements are contemporaneous. Information sharing has proved vital not only for increasing awareness but also to produce decisive legal consequences for political and military leaders who consider power as a matter to abuse seeking to realize diplomatic objectives from a standpoint of strength. EU leaders have already made their choices. The future can only reiterate their utter moral and legal collapse coupled with embarrassing subordination to the United States and its contemptible corrupt internal political dynamics.          

    Respectfully,

    Marwan Dalal

    Founder

[1] Ashifa Kassam, “EU staff sign letter expressing concerns over its handling of Gaza crisis”, The Guardian, 24 May 2024; Jennifer Rankin, “EU officials accuse bloc of taking ‘little to no meaningful action’ on Gaza”, The Guardian, 26 May 2025; Joseph Borrell, “By failing to sanction Israel, EU leaders are complicit in its crimes. They must act now”, The Guardian, 1 August 2025.

[2] Amnesty International, EU – Israel: Refusal to suspend the EU – Israel Association Agreement is a ‘cruel and unlawful’ betrayal”, 15 July 2025.

[3] Mared Gwyn Jones, “Why is the EU mostly silent on South Africa's genocide case against Israel?”, euro news, 12 January 2024. 

[4] Amnesty International, Europe: EU leaders ‘shameful’ attempt at justifying Israel’s genocide and war crimes against Palestinians, 20 March 2025.  

[5] David Rose, “The Gaza Bombshell”, Vanity Fair, 3 March 2008.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and American President Donald Trump. Source: The Guardian, 16 June 2025.

Ms. Maja Kallas, EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Source: Financial Times, 30 April 2025.