RT @Law4Palestine@twitter.com
3/13 Because @kschnurbein@twitter.com’s answer sounded somewhat evasive, @Law4Palestine@twitter.com filed a Freedom of Information request at @EU_Commission@twitter.com to clarify whether any “fundamental rights assessment” into the IHRA definition had been conducted. We asked for:
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Law4Palestine/status/1605999745079447552
RT @Law4Palestine@twitter.com
🧵1/13 On 16 November, UN Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs@twitter.com asked EU Coordinator on combating #Antisemitism @kschnurbein@twitter.com whether @EU_Commission@twitter.com has assessed the implications for fundamental rights of the IHRA definition of antisemitism 👇🏼
https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1592798185285718016
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Law4Palestine/status/1605999739773689856
RT @FranceskAlbs@twitter.com
@EU_Commission@twitter.com @JosepBorrellF@twitter.com @amnesty@twitter.com @Law4Palestine@twitter.com @kschnurbein@twitter.com I call on @EU_Commission@twitter.com to enable this consultation, also considering that IHRA-based funding conditionality – as dismissed by @kschnurbein@twitter.com – has already been introduced by a German antisemitism commissioner 👇🏼 /10
(source: https://antisemitismusbeauftragte.nrw/de/zuwendungen)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1620209146682286080
RT @FranceskAlbs@twitter.com
@EU_Commission@twitter.com @JosepBorrellF@twitter.com @amnesty@twitter.com @Law4Palestine@twitter.com @kschnurbein@twitter.com I appreciate @kschnurbein@twitter.com’s invitation to a private conversation. However, what is now urgently needed is a broader consultation bringing to the table human rights stakeholders that have been excluded so far by @EU_Commission@twitter.com /9
https://twitter.com/kschnurbein/status/1600847328449277952
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1620209126088351745
RT @FranceskAlbs@twitter.com
@EU_Commission@twitter.com @JosepBorrellF@twitter.com @amnesty@twitter.com @Law4Palestine@twitter.com Unlike EU antisemitism coordinator @kschnurbein@twitter.com suggested in response to an earlier tweet of mine, @EU_Commission@twitter.com has NOT conducted any fundamental rights assessment into the IHRA definition since endorsing it in 2017 /8
https://twitter.com/Law4Palestine/status/1605999752604049408
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1620209107742466048
RT @FranceskAlbs@twitter.com
@EU_Commission@twitter.com @JosepBorrellF@twitter.com @amnesty@twitter.com While alarmed that @EU_Commission@twitter.com again undermines Palestinian rights advocacy through the IHRA definition, a recent Freedom of Information request by @Law4Palestine@twitter.com exposed this problematic approach dates back to 2017 👇🏼 /7
https://twitter.com/Law4Palestine/status/1605999739773689856
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1620209087303618560
RT @FranceskAlbs@twitter.com
@EU_Commission@twitter.com @JosepBorrellF@twitter.com @amnesty@twitter.com In doing so, @EU_Commission@twitter.com harms other respected voices in the human rights community who agree that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians amounts to apartheid – but also dignitaries like former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon /6
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1620209069351911424
RT @FranceskAlbs@twitter.com
@EU_Commission@twitter.com @JosepBorrellF@twitter.com @amnesty@twitter.com Instead of unequivocally answering with “No”, @EU_Commission@twitter.com emphasizes it “uses” the IHRA definition & quotes without any nuance the “illustrative example” invoked in the parliamentary question to frame @amnesty@twitter.com‘s report as antisemitic – thereby fuelling such harmful framing /5
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1620209049504473090
RT @FranceskAlbs@twitter.com
@EU_Commission@twitter.com @JosepBorrellF@twitter.com @amnesty@twitter.com @EU_Commission@twitter.com did so in response to the below question, which deliberately misrepresents @amnesty@twitter.com‘s report and frames it as antisemitic based on the IHRA definition 👇🏼 /4
(questions: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2022-000932_EN.html)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1620209029157888000
RT @FranceskAlbs@twitter.com
@EU_Commission@twitter.com @JosepBorrellF@twitter.com I’m also alarmed that @EU_Commission@twitter.com dismisses the validity of the Apartheid framework by associating @amnesty@twitter.com‘s ground-breaking report "Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians" with antisemitism – yet again, by invoking the IHRA definition of antisemitism /3
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1620209008542945287
RT @FranceskAlbs@twitter.com
@EU_Commission@twitter.com Instead, @EU_Commission@twitter.com hides behind a dogmatic position “it is not appropriate to use the term apartheid in connection with the State of Israel”. It said so in answers by EU High Rep @JosepBorrellF@twitter.com to questions in the European Parliament /2
(answers: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2022-000932-ASW_EN.html)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1620208990574575617