{"id":13330,"date":"2025-08-29T14:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/more-pressure-needed-to-force-spineless-eu-to-impose-economic-sanctions-on-israel\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:10:05","slug":"more-pressure-needed-to-force-spineless-eu-to-impose-economic-sanctions-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/more-pressure-needed-to-force-spineless-eu-to-impose-economic-sanctions-on-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"More pressure needed to force spineless EU to impose economic sanctions on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More EU member states must join growing calls for economic sanctions against Israel for its war crimes in Gaza and plans for further illegal settlements in the West Bank, according to Social Democrats foreign affairs spokesperson Patricia Stephenson.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Stephenson made her comments after it was confirmed this week that Sweden and the Netherlands have become the latest countries to call on the EU to suspend trade with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>She said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile any additional support for sanctions against Israel is welcome, more pressure needs to be brought to bear on the EU to force the bloc to finally act in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the deliberate starvation of the Palestinian people \u2013 which has officially been declared a famine by a UN body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople in Ireland are growing increasingly frustrated at the cowardly response from the EU to the carnage. Even after the brutal bombing of Nasser hospital, in which at least 20 people were killed including five journalists,\u00a0the EU Commission could only muster up a tepid reaction, describing the attack as \u2018unacceptable\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will go down as one of the greatest understatements of all time and should have been called out for the flagrant breach of international law that it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith momentum now growing for EU sanctions against Israel\u2019s murderous regime, Ireland has an opportunity to show leadership on the world stage by enacting the Occupied Territories Bill \u2013 to include a ban on both goods and services \u2013 without further delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>August 29, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More EU member states must join growing calls for economic sanctions against Israel for its war crimes in Gaza and plans for further illegal settlements in the West Bank, according to Social Democrats foreign affairs spokesperson Patricia Stephenson. 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