The headlines moved on. We didn’t.
November 25, 2025
We hold a banner covered with photos and messages from this community, calling on the EU to end its complicity with Israel.
By WeMove Europe
The night before we went to protest in front of the European Commission in Brussels, I barely slept.
I kept imagining what might happen - the police pushing us back, being surrounded, not knowing how long we would be allowed to stay. I was afraid.
But I also knew: showing up was the right thing to do while Israel keeps starving and bombing Gaza.
Around a dozen of us - members of this community - had decided to go together, alongside our partners and allies from across Europe. We couldn’t let the EU continue business as usual. [1]
We arrived with tents, banners, and a small music keyboard. The police confiscated our tents the moment they saw them. Still, we stayed - on the pavement, right under the windows where decisions about Gaza are being made. [2]
A crucial EU meeting was approaching - and we could not let Gaza be forgotten inside that room.
EU leaders are acting as if the genocide is over because there’s a “ceasefire”.But Israel has violated the ceasefire again and again with new airstrikes, and is still blocking food, water, and medicine. [3]
The suffering hasn’t stopped, it’s simply slipped out of the headlines. And when Gaza disappears from the headlines, we bring it back.[4]
Hear out the people who stood in Brussels with me - why we came, why we stayed, and why we’ll keep showing up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyQAUVd4Ux0
Your postcards. Your photos. Your words. We turned them into a banner across the square. Every EU official entering the building had to see them - had to see us.
When we arrived, Fatima, one of us, read a poem she had written for Gaza. Her voice shook at first, then it steadied. Someone cried. Someone sang softly. We played a few notes on the keyboard.
And suddenly, the square felt less like a government plaza and more like a community holding each other up.
And when the police told us we could stay only if we stayed silent about Gaza, we whispered to passers-by.
And when whispering wasn’t possible, we asked this community to speak for us. And you did. Thousands of emails reached their inboxes: they felt your presence too.
We didn’t go alone. We brought you with us.
We stayed for 48 hours.When it became clear we would not leave, the police escalated. They surrounded us - and arrested people. Still, some stayed until the very end.
No,**the EU has not yet suspended its trade agreement with Israel.**But cracks are showing as more governments shift. [5]
Change in Europe is slow but we’ve never chosen easy fights - and we will keep showing up.
