I can give you this one off the top of my head, and there’s probably many more. There is plenty of EU wide repression against the voices of Palestinians but they barely get any media attention.
He wasn’t expelled, he was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Austria, something that they could only do because the “crimes” he was accused of were commited in Austria.
Once in Austria he ended up being released by the Austrian authorities, so I guess the Austrian court system still works as it’s supposed to in a Democratic country.
From the side of The Netherlands that was bureaucracy doing it’s thing and obbeying that legal mechanism rather than that country practicing censorship.
But yeah, I’ve been quite worried about the European Arrest Warrant system being abused exactly because countries that are sliding into Fascism can use it to project their politics abroad, as well as other kinds of things which had influence in this situation such as the US having put Gaza Now in its list of terrorist organisations and Europe going along with it.
That’s not Europe as a whole repressing the voices of Palestinians, or even The Netherlands doing it, it’s a broader problem of how certain systems in the EU can be abused by Fascists if they take over in certain European countries as well as the excessive influence of America (which is way more rightwing) in Europe.
As for what the authorities in Austria did, frankly that’s not surprising or representative of most of the EU: Austria has had the far-right in power longer than everybody else in Europe and they’re pretty much a worse version of Germany, it’s just that, because they’re much smaller, it’s not generally talked about.
It’s quite a stretch to go from this to saying that Europe is NAZI.
I can give you this one off the top of my head, and there’s probably many more. There is plenty of EU wide repression against the voices of Palestinians but they barely get any media attention.
A larger article on it: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/11/palestinian-journalist-mustafa-ayyash-to-be-extradited-to-austria
He wasn’t expelled, he was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Austria, something that they could only do because the “crimes” he was accused of were commited in Austria.
Once in Austria he ended up being released by the Austrian authorities, so I guess the Austrian court system still works as it’s supposed to in a Democratic country.
From the side of The Netherlands that was bureaucracy doing it’s thing and obbeying that legal mechanism rather than that country practicing censorship.
But yeah, I’ve been quite worried about the European Arrest Warrant system being abused exactly because countries that are sliding into Fascism can use it to project their politics abroad, as well as other kinds of things which had influence in this situation such as the US having put Gaza Now in its list of terrorist organisations and Europe going along with it.
That’s not Europe as a whole repressing the voices of Palestinians, or even The Netherlands doing it, it’s a broader problem of how certain systems in the EU can be abused by Fascists if they take over in certain European countries as well as the excessive influence of America (which is way more rightwing) in Europe.
As for what the authorities in Austria did, frankly that’s not surprising or representative of most of the EU: Austria has had the far-right in power longer than everybody else in Europe and they’re pretty much a worse version of Germany, it’s just that, because they’re much smaller, it’s not generally talked about.
It’s quite a stretch to go from this to saying that Europe is NAZI.
Just following orders, if you will.