cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34009143
Last Tuesday, the European Commission proposed to partially suspend Israel from its €80bn Horizon science research programme, citing the “severe” humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But this proposal comes late, after years of funding military-linked research with minimal transparency or accountability. As the death toll mounts and Gazans face man-made famine, the EU’s role in bankrolling violence is under scrutiny.
I don’t know man, funding the military companies of an apartheid regime doing slo-mo ethnic cleansing in the West Bank counts in my view.
The article then goes on to cite recent rulings that hamper access to information about the results of publicly funded projects and then just connects the dots, saying that on the one hand we’ve been funding the Innovation infrastructure of the regime and on the other we’ve been keeping information about what happens with the funds away from public scrutiny. So when the regime goes full genocidal, this is a potent mix for our taxes being used for crimes without any accountability.