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(Bethlehem, 30 June 2026)

The BADIL Resource Center for Residency and Refugee Rights has released the new Position Paper titled “The Palestine Solidarity Movement in Europe: State Complicity and Lessons for Transnational Mobilization”.

Since October 2023, the world has witnessed the live-broadcasted Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, provoking global outrage, mobilization, and solidarity demanding an end to Israeli crimes and the realization of Palestinian liberation and self-determination. The paper explores the diverse forms of solidarity action across Europe, their achievements, state responses, as well as key obstacles and the lessons learned.

Through mass demonstrations, direct action, student uprisings, labor resistance, and legal challenges, the Palestine solidarity movement has altered a political consciousness among people, by exposing the crimes of the Israeli regime and European colonial states’ political, economic and military complicity. While the international solidarity movement has achieved important gains, it did not yet produce a broader rupture in European states´ political, economic, and military relations with the Israeli regime. What the paper shows is that specific states’ complicity increased rather than decreased over time, highlighting the urgency for escalated and targeted action.

This position paper serves as an introductory overview of the needs, challenges, and opportunities facing the Palestine solidarity movement in Europe; as part of its Complicity Files series, BADIL will publish further analyses examining the specific forms of each state's complicity and identifying strategic pressure points for civil society actors and solidarity movements to advance justice, accountability, and Palestinian liberation.