As EU officials wring their hands and “review” the EU-Israel trade agreement — a €45 billion pipeline of complicity — real resistance is happening elsewhere. From the port of Catania, a boat is heading toward Gaza.

On board is Rima Hassan, the first Palestinian MEP in history, Greta Thunberg, actor Liam Cunningham and many other activists. Together, they are part of the Freedom Flotilla, a civilian act of mass disobedience against the illegal blockade of Gaza.

Among those contributing to this mission is Alice, a member of MERA25/DiEM25 and Flotilla Coalition Germany, helping amplify the voices and visibility of the flotilla.

“Apartheid and Israeli occupation were already documented,” Hassan says. “But the EU waited 20 months of genocide before moving.” Even now, the EU hasn’t moved. Its ‘re-examination’ of the EU-Israel agreement is political theatre, a stalling tactic designed to protect economic interests, not Palestinian lives.

And while diplomats speak in circles, Israeli drones strike humanitarian ships, like Conscience, sunk in international waters on May 1.

DiEM25 fully and unequivocally supports the Freedom Flotilla and the Global March to Gaza.

We stand with those who refuse silence. We stand with those who challenge the siege. We stand with those who sail toward justice.

“The Global March to Gaza is more than a march,” says DiEM25 co-founder Yanis Varoufakis. “It is an act of global disobedience against one of the most brutal, enduring and ‘profitable’ genocides.”

“It is living proof that, even when governments remain silent or acquiesce, the people do not forget, and they do not give up.”

This isn’t just a humanitarian crisis. It’s a political crime, one enabled by:

• Lockheed Martin

• Caterpillar

• Elbit

• Google

• Amazon

• Palantir

• Microsoft

• IBM

• Barclays

• Allianz

• BNP Paribas

• And the governments that protect them

These companies and institutions aren’t neutral. They are stakeholders in apartheid, and their power comes from our societies, our money, our silence.

“No one can be free while Gaza is being starved, besieged, and annihilated, especially when this crime is perpetrated with the authority of our institutions,” Varoufakis reminds us.

What Must Be Done

We refuse to watch genocide be normalised. We call on all people to:

• BOYCOTT complicit corporations and financial institutions

• DISRUPT the flow of arms, funding, and propaganda

• BUILD people’s corridors of aid, solidarity, and resistance

• NAME the crime: this is genocide, and Europe is complicit

• JOIN the march. Support the flotilla.

This is not charity or diplomacy. This is resistance, and it is growing.

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