Description
Journalist David Cronin interrogates the relationship and its outcomes. A recent agreement for 'more intense, more fruitful, more influential co-operation' between the EU and Israel has meant that Israel has become a member state of the Union in all but name. Cronin shows that rather than using this relationship to encourage Israeli restraint, the EU has legitimised actions such as the ill-treatment of prisoners and the Gaza invasion.
Concluding his revealing and shocking account, Cronin calls for a continuation and deepening of international activism and protest to halt the EU's slide into complicity.
About the Author
David Cronin is a journalist specialising in European politics. He is the author of Balfour's Shadow (Pluto, 2017), Corporate Europe (Pluto, 2013) and Europe's Alliance With Israel (Pluto, 2010). He has written for a variety of publications, including the Guardian and Wall Street Journal Europe.
Reviews
'Compelling, illuminative and painful. It is an indispensible pioneering work essential for students, tax-payers, policy- and decision-makers'
-- Middle East Monitor'It seems to many that Israel is above international law. This important book explores the complex political ties that have prevented European countries from holding Israel to account' -- Ken Loach
'This book should be required reading for anyone trying to understand the scale of international support for the State of Israel'
-- Sarah Irving, author of Gaza: Beneath the Bombs, and Leila KhaledBook Information
ISBN 9780745330655
Author David Cronin
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Pluto Press
Publisher Pluto Press
Weight(grams) 259g