The EU's rush to defend Israel 'undermines its moral authority'

The European Union's support for Israel's war on Gaza has seen the emergence of splits, confusion and seemingly the making of policy on-the-go.

When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who has increasingly put herself forward as the face of the EU on the global stage, offered her full-throttled support for Israel, EU parliamentarians condemned her lack of mandate to speak on foreign policy matters. 

"President von der Leyen's approach has been entirely one-sided and she has entirely failed to show leadership and lead a coherent response to the crisis," Grace O'Sullivan, an Irish Green Party member of the European parliament, told Middle East Eye.

In a rare show of protest, some 800 EU staff wrote a letter to von der Leyen objecting to what they said was unjustifiable bias towards Israel and a failure to even mention the need for Palestinian statehood, which is official EU policy. 

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