Why Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary won’t impact European policy toward Israel mondoweiss.net/2026/04/why-...

"Dispossessed of their ancestral habitats, separated from the land on which they depended for sustenance and ritual, forced into reservations, Indigenous populations were destroyed to free up the best land for European settlement"👉🏼. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Women Against Fascism stand for democracy and human rights. We protest the normalisation of fascism in the EU, every first Tuesday of the month in front of the HQ of the European Commission in Brussels.

@koertdebeuf.bsky.social making waves in the Netherlands! We need an English translation 👍

THIS perfectly describes most of today’s media bias and failure!

War is big business.The people I met in Sarajevo and others working for peace amid wars are living proof that love is a powerful human force. Like a strong river, it cannot be contained 👉🏼https://open.substack.com/pub/shadaislam/p/in-a-time-of-monsters-i-felt-safe?r=7ham&utm_medium=ios

"Debates are becoming more muted as equality experts & activists learn to be silent on questions like Gaza and the illegal US & Israeli attack on Iran for fear of losing their access to much-needed EU funding. It is, as one participant says, the new Brussels effect”. euobserver.com/208146/the-n...

This is awful. Shame! 👉🏼https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/kabul-hospital-strike-eid-pakistan-taliban-families-search-for-victims?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"The abject failure to muster an effective multilateral and international law-based response in Gaza enabled a war outside international legal boundaries – one that is now spreading across and beyond the Middle East". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So heartbreaking and so true👇🏼https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/21/trump-administration-pro-life-ice-israel-palestine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I almost cried when I read this. We could have avoided so much bloodshed but these US "negotiators" appear to be addicted to violence👉🏼https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/ignorance-misunderstanding-obfuscation-iran-nuclear-talks-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez has condemned the US–Israeli strikes on Iran and criticised the clerical regime in Tehran. Once upon a time, such a balanced, well-articulated position would have represented the European mainstream. No longer. open.substack.com/pub/shadaisl...

Woke up this morning and saw that #US and #Israel have attacked #Iran 👉🏼https://open.substack.com/pub/shadaislam/p/can-we-imagine-a-world-where-wars?r=7ham&utm_medium=ios

This is my 5-week old answer to Marco Rubio's ridiculous assertions at the #MunichSecurityConference 👉🏼https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/05/donald-trump-europe-leaders-us-president-eu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The EU's political elite gave a standing ovation and breathed "relief" after a US message of "reassurance" in Munich, even though it was laced with far-right tropes.

"The new EU narrative on India reflects a modesty, pragmatism and flexibility absent from its dealings with the Global South. Slowly, the EU is adjusting to a harsher, more transactional, Trumpian world. Adjustment is not enough. The Year of the Fire Horse demands a transformation of EU mindsets".

The #EU is adapting to a changed world but its foreign outreach is still often based on a fictional view of a changed world 👉🏼https://euobserver.com/201231/europes-friends-foes-and-fantasies-in-this-chinese-year-of-the-fire-horse/

Including my comments on #EU #India trade and stuff 👉🏼https://youtu.be/CXm0yPbZdRI?si=vWCzOuLTQjyfsaiS

The rules-based order didn’t die with Trump. It didn’t collapse in Ukraine. It didn’t fracture in Greenland. It died in Gaza—under Western bombs, vetoes, and silence. No Davos hero can rewrite that. open.substack.com/pub/shadaisl...

“They’re conspicuously silent” said one EU official. “Rutte was supposed to be the man Europe could rely on to be our Trump-whisperer. But he wasn’t supposed to be this quiet.” Nato yet to issue public statement asserting territorial integrity of ally Denmark or Greenland as.ft.com/r/f125cd10-6...

Only one leader in Europe has been willing to condemn Donald Trump's actions. For that he has been vilified and ostracised by the other European leaders. History will have its verdict.

MAGA and Trump are pushing a white supremacist vision for Europe. But EU leaders aren't properly challenging the racist logic: "Those who do not subscribe to this toxic fiction must have the courage to say so publicly" writes @simplyshada.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UAE cuts funds for citizens keen to study in UK over Muslim Brotherhood tensions

The truth is that Trump’s alternative reality about a “woke” Europe is laughable. He would feel quite at home in today’s EU. Far-right parties are on the rise. If Trump were to visit #Brussels so white institutions, he would not run into many people of colour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel is banning dozens of major international humanitarian groups from Gaza as the Palestinian population struggles under mass displacement, hunger, winter cold and more.