The EU’s Antisemitic Algorithm

Moral Bankruptcy in Brussels

The EU's "human rights review" of Israel is a masterclass in moral bankruptcy. Brussels expresses outrage over Israel’s defensive actions against Hamas, all while profiting from a trillion-dollar economy intertwined with regimes responsible for ongoing atrocities.

Consider the EU’s shameless submission to Beijing. In 2020, the European Commission signed a sweeping investment agreement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This regime is currently perpetrating the most technologically advanced genocide in modern history. Over a million Uyghur Muslims remain detained in concentration camps. They are subjected to forced sterilizations, torture, gang rape, and systematic cultural erasure. Chinese authorities harvest organs from living political prisoners. They operate a surveillance system that tracks the movements of all its citizens. And the EU’s response? Billions in trade deals, investment summits, and meek diplomatic statements, with no human rights reviews, and no suspension of association agreements. Just business as usual with the most sophisticated totalitarian state of all time.

Turkey presents an even more brazen case of EU complicity. Erdoğan's regime has illegally occupied northern Cyprus for half a century. The Turkish government ethnically cleansed 200,000 Greek Cypriots. They colonized Kurdish ancestral lands with state-sponsored resettlement; an unmistakable case of occupation and apartheid. Ankara has demolished over 3,000 Kurdish villages and imprisoned more than 300,000 political opponents since 2016. Its NATO-supplied military has been unleashed on Syrian Kurdish fighters who stood shoulder to shoulder with Western forces against ISIS. President Erdoğan has jailed more journalists than any other leader in the world and purged over 100,000 civil servants in a campaign that echoes Stalinist repression. He has also weaponized refugee flows to extract concessions from Europe. Again, I ask, how has the EU responded? By showering billions in aid, preserving candidate status, and issuing little more than delicately worded pleas for restraint.

The perverse parade of EU-approved butchers continues. Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich theocracy with medieval instincts, publicly beheads dissidents, dismembered Jamal Khashoggi with a bone saw, and bombs Yemen into rubble with European-made weapons. Long before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was handsomely rewarded with energy cash while occupying Georgia and Moldova and executing false-flag operations across the continent. Algeria tortures whistleblowers and operates internment camps in Western Sahara, all while securing lucrative EU energy agreements. Morocco continues its illegal occupation of Western Sahara in clear defiance of international law, yet Brussels persists in signing fisheries deals and migration pacts with Rabat.

The pattern is as clear as it is contemptible. The more monstrous the regime, the more money, meetings, and memoranda Brussels offers. Occupation opens doors, and terrorism turns into trade. But let Israel lift a finger in self-defense after the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, and suddenly the EU rediscovers its moral compass — conveniently calibrated to point only at the Jewish state.

Brussels demands of Israel what it would never dare demand of actual dictators. The double standard is both appalling and incredibly revealing. This is institutional antisemitism, plain and simple, crafted behind conference doors.

The EU’s portrayal of Israel’s defensive campaign reveals a reversal so warped it borders on lunacy. In Brussels’ calculus, Israel’s response to the livestreamed torture and murder of 1,200 civilians on October 7th is treated as equivalent to the atrocity itself.

Israel rightly condemned the European Commission’s review process for what it was: a political ambush, not a good-faith inquiry. Eight questions, six days to respond, no hearings, no formal defense, and no acknowledgment of the existential threat facing the Jewish state. The EU relied on what Israel accurately called “biased evidence” from questionable NGOs, while neglecting the extraordinary measures Israel takes to minimize civilian casualties.

Hamas embeds rocket launchers in schools, command centers in hospitals, and weapons caches in residential neighborhoods — clear violations of international law. It uses civilians as human shields while glorifying the murder of Jews on social media. Meanwhile, Israel issues evacuation warnings, drops leaflets, and makes phone calls before conducting military operations — tactics virtually unheard of in modern warfare. And yet, in the EU’s distorted calculus of justice, the democracy defending its citizens is cast as the aggressor, while the terrorists who massacred children are elevated to the status of resistance fighters.

This twisted ethical framework extends further still. The EU refuses to acknowledge that Hamas governs Gaza as a de facto state. It collects taxes, runs courts, fields armed forces, and administers social programs — every hallmark of self-governance. And yet Brussels insists on treating Gaza as “occupied territory” while turning a blind eye to actual occupations it funds and legitimizes elsewhere.

This selective application of human-rights standards reveals something more sinister than diplomatic incompetence. When Israel, the world's only Jewish state, faces scrutiny never applied to Muslim or secular nations, the historical echoes become impossible to ignore. The EU has created what can only be described as an antisemitic algorithm: one standard for Jews, another for everyone else.

The numbers don't lie, even if those in Brussels most certainly do. Since 2006, the UN Human Rights Council has passed more resolutions condemning Israel than all other countries combined. The EU has supported or abstained on virtually every one while remaining silent on Chinese genocide, Turkish occupation, and Iranian state terrorism. The EU’s timing underscores the depth of its cynicism. Just as President Trump stood with Israel to confront Iran’s nuclear program, a threat that endangers Europe as much as the Middle East, Brussels chose that very moment to undercut the West’s most dependable regional ally.

The EU's approach resembles a slow-motion surrender. By casting Israel as a pariah while courting Islamic dictatorships, it has willingly adopted the posture of a dhimmi: deferential, self-loathing, and oblivious to the threat.

Israel's response to the EU review was righteous fury, and rightly so. When European bureaucrats lecture a nation fighting for its survival while signing billion-euro deals with those who vow to annihilate it, they lose the right to be taken seriously.

History will record this as yet another chapter in Europe’s long tradition of looking away when Jews are under threat. The same continent that engineered the Holocaust now funds tyrants and scolds Jews for defending themselves.

The EU’s message couldn’t be clearer: Jewish blood is expendable, dictator cash is king, and principles are always for sale. This isn’t new. It’s Europe’s oldest reflex: deliberate indifference that sharpens every time Jewish lives are at stake.