‘Self-imposed irrelevance’: why the EU is failing to act on growing public criticism of Israel

While Israel’s actions against Palestinians intensify public anger, the bloc remains paralysed along familiar fault linesWhen the British government announced sweeping sanctions on trade with illegal Israeli settlements and condemned “ethnic cleansing” in the West Bank by state-backed “settler terrorists”, some EU diplomats hoped this dramatic shift in UK government policy towards Israel would have a galvanising effect on the rest of Europe. So far, it has not.