On Wednesday 10 September, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced she would be proposing measures against Israel in view of the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.
“Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war. For the sake of the children, for the sake of humanity, this has to stop!”, she stressed in her State of the Union address to the European Parliament, saying that this was “part of a more systematic shift in the last months that is simply...