Europe: Anti-lobby group highlights Israel as repressive regime

Corporate Europe Observatory is an organization claiming to expose the effects of corporate lobbying on EU policy making.

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups in EU policy making.

In a recent report they decided instead to focus on lobbies supporting 'brutal regimes'.

Their report 'Spin doctors to the autocrats: how European PR firms whitewash repressive regimes', highlights such countries as Nigera, Russia, Kazakhstan etc.

And Israel.

Because we all know that Israel is a repressive regime.

The report states as follows:

During Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in the summer of 2014, ‘Operation Protective Edge’, the EFI held packed briefings in the European Parliament. Between 8 July and 27 August 2014, according to the UN over 2,100 Palestinians were killed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza, the majority civilian deaths, of which 495 were children. Seven Israeli civilians and 66 Israeli soldiers were killed in the conflict.   

EFI has been keen to reframe the image of the country as not just being defined by conflict, sometimes to the point of surrealism. A press release post ‘Operation Protective Edge’ full of “inspiring stuff” based on Israeli innovation says, “Whilst thousands of rockets rained down on the country during the latest conflict, Israelis have – between running to bomb shelters – been creating technologies and devising strategies to make the world a better place.” 

A recent EFI parliamentary event describes life for Israelis on the border with Gaza, who experienced “the worst of the recent war in Gaza, with quite literally thousands of rockets fired indiscriminately at the citizens of Sh’ar Hanegev”

How dare they.

Nowadays, you are not allowed to speak on behalf of Israel.  Because that's 'whitewashing a repressive regime'.

I wonder how Europeans reframe the damage they've caused and continue to cause in the Middle East.  How many EU-funded 'lobbies' work for the Palestinians cause and against Israel's right to exist.