EU sports chief hints Israel should get the boot from competitions over Gaza war

“Through sport, we have to promote the values that we stand for, with any country,” Glenn Micallef says.

From #PoliticoEU
May 26, 2025 4:02 am CET
Seb Starcevic

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-sports-chief-israel-gaza-war-occupation-glenn-micallef/

#BlockadeIsrael
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #EU
#news #press #politics @palestine

Via #PoliticoEU

#ElonMusk is at it again

Amid ongoing feud w/ British gov about unrest on country's streets, the #X owner boosted, & then deleted, an entirely-manufactured news headline Thurs pushed by #FarRight political party

Musk shared fake headline, purporting 2 b from the #Telegraph newspaper, that said UK PM #Keir #Starmer→"considering building 'emergency detainment camps' on #FalklandIslands" 2 house FarRight rioters arrestd in country's round o #race riots

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-share-fake-news-uk-rioters-detainment-camp/

Via #PoliticoEU

#ITALY DRAGS KAMALA HARRIS INTO ITS CULTURE WAR

*RightWing #Italian newspaper #IlTempo this week published a flagrantly #racist front page depicting U.S. Vice President #KamalaHarris, whose mother was born in #India, wearing a #NativeAmerican headdress alongside the headline “#White Manhunt.”

#Vergogna

https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/italy-drags-kamala-harris-into-its-spat-summer/

Via #PoliticoEU

#Armenia will formally withdraw from its military alliance with #Moscow, the country’s prime minister announced Wednesday, as tensions grow with #Russia.

#NikolPashinyan declared in parliament that “we will leave” the #Kremlin’s #CollectiveSecurityTreatyOrganization ( #CSTO ), and that “we will decide the timing of our exit.”

Me: expect a #Defenestration some time soon

#StopRussia #StopPutin

https://www.politico.eu/article/armenia-ends-military-alliance-with-russia-pm-nikol-pashinyan-confirms/