Claudio Francavilla
@claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social
Associate EU Director at @hrw.org
Posts about #EU foreign policy on #HumanRights, mainly #MiddleEast, #Asia, #EUtrade, #UN #HRC
Slowly transitioning here from an irredeemably ruined Twitter. Usual caveats
Posts about #EU foreign policy on #HumanRights, mainly #MiddleEast, #Asia, #EUtrade, #UN #HRC
Slowly transitioning here from an irredeemably ruined Twitter. Usual caveats
“Stick that they never used” 😉
October 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“Stick that they never used” 😉
Sanctions, suspension of trade benefits, ban of settlement trade - as explained in the piece.
October 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Sanctions, suspension of trade benefits, ban of settlement trade - as explained in the piece.
7/7 This is not the time to ease pressure, but to double down on it.
The EU should finally act on its own findings and supposed values, uphold international law, and end the impunity that’s enabled decades of occupation, apartheid, and acts of #genocide www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
The EU should finally act on its own findings and supposed values, uphold international law, and end the impunity that’s enabled decades of occupation, apartheid, and acts of #genocide www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Ceasefire or Not, EU Should Keep Pressure on Israel to End Abuses
As European Union leaders and foreign ministers prepare for meetings to discuss the situation in Israel and Palestine, some of their representatives in Brussels, and Israel’s new ambassador to the EU,...
www.hrw.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
7/7 This is not the time to ease pressure, but to double down on it.
The EU should finally act on its own findings and supposed values, uphold international law, and end the impunity that’s enabled decades of occupation, apartheid, and acts of #genocide www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
The EU should finally act on its own findings and supposed values, uphold international law, and end the impunity that’s enabled decades of occupation, apartheid, and acts of #genocide www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
6/7 All those measures - sanctions, suspension of EU-Israel deal, settlement trade ban - are listed in the annex to the "New York Declaration", led by France & KSA and widely endorsed by UNGA, incl. 25/27 EU states: docs.un.org/en/A/CONF.24...
Yet few, if any, have followed up on those commitments
Yet few, if any, have followed up on those commitments
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October 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
6/7 All those measures - sanctions, suspension of EU-Israel deal, settlement trade ban - are listed in the annex to the "New York Declaration", led by France & KSA and widely endorsed by UNGA, incl. 25/27 EU states: docs.un.org/en/A/CONF.24...
Yet few, if any, have followed up on those commitments
Yet few, if any, have followed up on those commitments
5/7 What's appallingly not on the EU table is a ban of trade with settlements.
All EU states rightly say they're illegal, and "an obstacle to a two state solution". Then why does the EU keep trading with them, feeding war crimes, occupation and apartheid? hrw.org/news/2025/02...
All EU states rightly say they're illegal, and "an obstacle to a two state solution". Then why does the EU keep trading with them, feeding war crimes, occupation and apartheid? hrw.org/news/2025/02...
NGOs, Trade Unions, Call on EU to Ban Trade with Israel’s Illegal Settlements
Over 160 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), trade unions, and civil society organizations, including Human Rights Watch, have called on the European Union to ban trade and business with Israeli set...
hrw.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
5/7 What's appallingly not on the EU table is a ban of trade with settlements.
All EU states rightly say they're illegal, and "an obstacle to a two state solution". Then why does the EU keep trading with them, feeding war crimes, occupation and apartheid? hrw.org/news/2025/02...
All EU states rightly say they're illegal, and "an obstacle to a two state solution". Then why does the EU keep trading with them, feeding war crimes, occupation and apartheid? hrw.org/news/2025/02...
4/7 But even if EU states only cared about the ceasefire, they should be wary of its likely spoilers - and ethnic cleansing advocates - in Israel's cabinet timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent... - and finally sanction them, as UK CAN AUS NZ NW did 👉 www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/d...
Ben Gvir announces his party will oppose ceasefire and hostage-release deal
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timesofisrael.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
4/7 But even if EU states only cared about the ceasefire, they should be wary of its likely spoilers - and ethnic cleansing advocates - in Israel's cabinet timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent... - and finally sanction them, as UK CAN AUS NZ NW did 👉 www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/d...
3/7 The EU's own review of Israel's (non-)compliance with the human rights clause of the bilateral Agreement looked not only at Gaza, but at the whole Occupied Palestinian Territory, citing damning UN reports & ICJ rulings
Israel cannot be compliant with a human rights clause AND commit apartheid
Israel cannot be compliant with a human rights clause AND commit apartheid
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
3/7 The EU's own review of Israel's (non-)compliance with the human rights clause of the bilateral Agreement looked not only at Gaza, but at the whole Occupied Palestinian Territory, citing damning UN reports & ICJ rulings
Israel cannot be compliant with a human rights clause AND commit apartheid
Israel cannot be compliant with a human rights clause AND commit apartheid