In a joint statement published on Monday, 9 June, the chairs of the European Parliament’s left-wing political groups—Manon Aubry (The Left, French), Martin Schirdewan (The Left, German), Iratxe García (S&D, Spanish), Bas Eickhout (Greens/EFA, Dutch), and Terry Reintke (Greens/EFA, German)—called for the release of the crew of the Madleen, a ship from the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ (an NGO) that was transporting humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip but that was intercepted in...