Europe and israel

Israel's war in Gaza leaves the Jewish State stuck in a Catch-22 - opinion

The ripple effect of the IDF’s operation in Gaza is felt around the world. Jew haters are using Israel’s response to Hamas’s massacre as an excuse to spew their evil vitriol. Jews suffer.

 Israeli soldiers fire a mortar towards Gaza from their position near the border, as seen from Israel, June 2, 2025
 People demonstrate outside the Stockholm District Court as they wait for the verdict in the case of Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prosecution official accused of crimes against international law and murder in Iran in 1988, in Stockholm, Sweden

Sweden's police investigate shooting near Israeli target in Gothenburg, no injuries reported

 Flags of Palestine and Ireland flutter next to each other over the International Wall in support of Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 29, 2024

Recognition of Palestine is ‘whitewashing Europe’s crimes,’ local pro-Palestine groups say

 Noa Kirel from Israel performs during the grand final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, Britain, May 13, 2023.

Performers refuse to boycott Eurovision simply because Israel is involved


Most EU countries call for 'immediate humanitarian pause' in Gaza, says EU top diplomat Borrell

Many countries call on Israel to respect humanitarian law, while simultaneously calling for the end of

 Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 9, 2024.

German MP: Six million reasons for our unprecedented wartime support

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: “To be honest, Germany has six million reasons why we have to support a Jewish state. Full stop.”

 GERMAN CHANCELLOR Olaf Scholz cleans the 'stumbling blocks' for the couple Hans Goslar and Ruth Judith Goslar (née Klee) in Berlin in November.

The worldwide impact of the Gaza war - opinion

The absence from the coalition of most of the major European countries, including Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, is an important and frightening message from the world to Israel.

 A PROTESTER is removed during a US Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on President Biden's supplemental funding request for Israel and Ukraine, in October. The Gaza war has implications for inter-power relations in various contexts such as the war in Ukraine, the writer notes.

To maintain European support, Israel must recommit to the fight for democracy - opinion

Israel needs the United States to deter Iran and to refill its arsenals for a war that may take months. But Israel also needs the support of the free world – first and foremost of Europe. 

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a news conference in Tel Aviv, earlier this month.

Albania has long been a pro-Israel country. Will the Hamas war change that?

Albania is also known as the only European country that had more Jewish residents after World War II than before it.

 Pro-Palestinian activists protest Israel at a rally at Skanderbeg Square in downtown Tirana, Albania, Oct. 20.

Global Christian lawmakers unite in solidarity with Israel

The Christian leaders called upon the global community to demonstrate unwavering solidarity with Israel for as long as necessary.

 An Israeli soldier arranges his gun on a bench following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel, October 13, 2023.

The Vital Role of NGOs in Promoting Bipartisan Cooperation with Europe - Opinion

NGOs provide additional efforts to the official channels in a variety of fields, such as defense, national resilience, innovation and energy.

 OMRI ATTAR, ELNET COO

Israel, Europe need to proactively face similar strategic challenges- ELNET official

David Siegel is the president of Friends of ELNET, an NGO dedicated to strengthening relations between Israel and Europe based on shared democratic values and strategic interests.

David Siegel, president of Friends of ELNET, is seen speaking at at the Jerusalem Post 2023 Annual Conference in New York, June 5, 2023

EU promises funding won’t go to PA textbooks inciting against Israel

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi as his first stop in Brussels on Tuesday.

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen with European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, May 2, 2023.

What are Israeli-European relations like after 75 years? - opinion

Historically, Europe played a key role in Israel’s security and economic growth – from the supply of weapons by Czechoslovakia in 1948 to the reparations agreement with Germany in 1952.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, in January. The European Union is Israel’s first trade partner.

Lithuanian FM to ‘Post’: We want Israel to give Ukraine defensive weapons

Western allies, such as Lithuania, do not believe Israel can remain on the fence when it comes to the Russia-Ukraine war.

 Lithuanian foreign ministry Gabrielius Landsbergis