As Gaza starved, the European Union decided to finance an Israeli project on binge-eating.
That fact says everything about the priorities of the Brussels bureaucracy and how it has continued cooperating with a state carrying out a genocide.
The binge-eating project is coordinated by the Weizmann Institute of Science. It is among the recipients of more than 150 grants to Israel which Brussels officials have signed since the exterminationist war on Gaza was declared in October last year.
I have found details of these grants by sifting through a database on EU research funding.
Binge-eating disorder is a serious problem that warrants careful research. Yet it is abhorrent that the EU should approve an Israeli project on overconsumption at a time when Israel had cut off the supply of food and water to Gaza’s inhabitants.
The grant to the binge-eating project reminded me of an 1890 cartoon captioned “Ireland wrestles with famine, while Mr. Balfour plays golf.” …more
