MEP Censures European Commission President’s Support for Israeli Genocide in Gaza
Irish MEP Clare Daly called von der Leyen “Frau Genocide”.
Daly’s speech at the European Parliament went viral on Monday after she accused von der Leyen of overriding the foreign policies to “cheerlead a brutal apartheid regime.”
She said von der Leyen “elevated to power without a single vote from the citizens who has spent the last two months swooping in and overriding the foreign policies of elected governments all to cheerlead a brutal apartheid regime that she calls a ‘vibrant democracy’ as it pulverizes a city of children.
“Well, my God with defenders of democracy like that, I think I speak for many, many citizens of Europe when I say ‘Nein Danke!’ No, Thanks, Frau Genocide,” she added.
Last month, she criticized von der Leyen for not calling for a truce in Gaza, saying that “it’s not just Israel’s genocide,” but Europe’s too.
Von der Leyen has been criticized for her support to Israel and hesitance to call for restraint in Gaza.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since teh Al-Aqsa Flood Operation by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on 7 October, killing at least 20,424 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 54,036 others, according to local health authorities.
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The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with half of the coastal territory’s housing damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million people displaced within the densely populated enclave amid shortages of food, clean water and medicines.
Source: Middle East Monitor
