Brussels – The film “Naza” is being screened at the European Parliament, and the main aim of the screening – organised this afternoon (10 November) by MEPs Cecilia Strada of the PD (S&D), Benedetta Scuderi of the Green Left Alliance (AVS), Lynn Boylan of the Irish Sinn Féin (The Left), and Abir Al-Sahlani of the Swedish Centre Party (Renew Europe) – is to keep the spotlight on Gaza. “Frankly, it’s difficult to obtain something in here,”, but “we must keep talking about Gaza and the West Bank, we must continue to raise awareness in every possible way the scale and systematic nature of what is an ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people,” commented Strada on the sidelines of the event. The film by Israeli directors Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham for Scuderi “offers a glimpse into systems of mass killing which Israel imposes on the Palestinian population every day and tells us about genocide in the guise of technology and artificial intelligence, an even more brutal and clinical form of genocide that decides who to kill based on an algorithm.” An element that becomes “abominable when we consider that Israel is involved in Horizon research projects, which may lead to the development of these technologies, is covered by defence and trade agreements and that is why it is important to bring Naza into the European Parliament: because what Europe is doing with these agreements, with those who commit genocide, using any kind of technology, is absolutely abominable,” continued Scuderi.
Regarding the change of government in Israel, “I’m not optimistic,”, Strada remarked. “The problem isn’t a head of government like Netanyahu was, but a system – a system of apartheid and supremacism that oppresses the population, even the non-Jewish Israeli population itself. The problem is a system that did not come into being on 7 October and has been in place for much longer. So it is unlikely that a system could change simply with a change of government,” she pointed out. “Of course we have hopes – who doesn’t? – but we’re sticking to our principles: we must continue to call on the European Commission to suspend the EU–Israel Association Agreement, of all arms shipments to and from Israel, and all funding. And, speaking of technology, let us remember the use of Israeli surveillance technologies which European governments exploit to spy on journalists, activists, and human rights defenders in our countries,” continued Strada.
