
Kolja Knodel 💜🇪🇺
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Kolja Knodel 💜🇪🇺
@Kohlibart
🗳️ 2024 & 2021 Bundestag candidate @VoltDeutschland







Europe’s dilemma on Venezuela: If Europe acquiesces in U.S. actions against the Maduro regime, it risks weakening the legal principles that underpin its opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. If it condemns those actions, however, Europe risks alienating its primary security guarantor and straining transatlantic unity at a moment when collective defense against Russia is especially critical. This dilemma exists only because international law has been applied inconsistently for decades. Europe must now choose between legal principle and strategic necessity, a choice that reveals whether the so called “rules-based order” ever had genuine normative content or was always just a legitimizing discourse for Western hegemony.




WE’VE SANCTIONED: Thierry Breton, a mastermind of the Digital Services Act. In August 2024, while serving as European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Digital Services, he published a letter using the DSA to threaten @elonmusk ahead of his livestream interview with President Trump. Before the interview, Breton ominously reminded Musk of @X’s legal obligations and ongoing “formal proceedings” for alleged noncompliance with “illegal content” and “disinformation” requirements under the DSA.


Today in the early morning, Israeli police accompanied by municipal officials forcibly entered the @UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem. Police motorcycles, as well as trucks & forklifts, were brought in & all communications were cut. Furniture, IT equipment & other property was seized. The @UN flag was pulled down & replaced with an Israeli flag. This latest action represents a blatant disregard of Israel’s obligation as a United Nations Member State to protect & respect the inviolability of UN premises. Following months of harassment that included arson attacks in 2024, hateful demonstrations & intimidation, supported by a large-scale disinformation campaign, as well as anti-UNRWA legislation passed by the Israeli parliament in breach of its international obligations, UNRWA personnel were forced to vacate the compound at the beginning of this year. However, whatever action taken domestically, the compound retains its status as a UN premises, immune from any form of interference. Israel is party to the Convention on the Privileges & Immunities of the UN. The Convention makes UN premises inviolable - in other words, immune from search and/or seizure - and makes UN property and assets immune from legal process. The International Court of Justice has also underscored that Israel is obliged to cooperate with UNRWA & other UN agencies. There can be no exceptions. To allow this represents a new challenge to international law, one that creates a dangerous precedent anywhere else the UN is present across the world.
























