{"id":315951,"date":"2025-09-28T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315951"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:37:44","slug":"update-israels-increasing-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315951","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Israel\u2019s Increasing Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Sept 26, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Two days ago I covered the <a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2025\/09\/23\/everyone-is-suddenly-recognizing-palestine-but-why\/\">myriad ways<\/a> the world was turning its collective fire on Israel, leading one BBC journalist to describe them as \u201cisolated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the two days since, that isolation has only increased.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, dozens of delegations <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/watch-the-moment-diplomats-walk-out-as-israeli-pm-speaks-at-un-13438551\">walked out in protest<\/a> during Netanyahu\u2019s speech to the UN.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish and Italian navies are reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/what-to-know-about-the-international-flotilla-seeking-to-break-israels-blockade-of-gaza\">sending warships<\/a> to protect Greta Thunberg\u2019s aid flotilla in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting in New York during the UN Summit, members of <a href=\"https:\/\/thehaguegroup.org\/home\/\">The Hague Group<\/a> (an activist group comprising various countries, including South Africa, Brazil and Malaysia) issued statements calling for the <em>\u201cInternational Community\u201d<\/em> to <em>\u201cdeny Israel the tools of genocide\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian foreign minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/26\/world-must-deny-israel-tools-of-genocide-says-growing-alliance-of-activist-states\">stated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWe must turn indignation into action, law into justice and justice into peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dockworkers\u2019 Unions from across Europe are uniting to try and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/putting-the-squeeze-on-israel-italy-dockworkers-usb-gather-to-plan-boycott\/\">\u201csqueeze\u201d Israel<\/a> over Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft have claimed they are blocking the Israeli military from using some of its software to prevent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/25\/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-surveillance-of-palestinians\">illegal mass surveillance<\/a> in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s positions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/countries-vote-israel-participation-eurovision-november\/\">Eurovision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/football\/article\/uefa-israel-ban-football-fifa-maccabi-tel-aviv-europa-league-gwn0qf2n3\">UEFA<\/a> are also in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>The warring combatants are embracing the roles of Face and Heel, with Gaza\u2019s president announcing his openness to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czdjgdnjnlgo\">negotiated two-state solution<\/a>, even as Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/article\/israel-expands-gaza-ground-offensive\">broadens its offensive<\/a> in Gaza, shells <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/27\/middleeast\/gaza-nasser-hospital-israel-attack-three-strikes-intl\">hospitals<\/a> and shuts down the only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9wd74r0qdvo\">international crossing<\/a> into the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The Times of Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-is-speeding-towards-global-pariah-status-with-trump-as-its-only-shield\/\">reports<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Israel is speeding toward global pariah status, with Trump as its only shield<\/p>\n<p>And even Trump\u2019s support is far from certain, he has already questioned the Qatar bombing and vowed not to let Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/middle-east\/20250925-trump-block-israeli-annexation-west-bank-netanyahu\">occupy the West Bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase my co-editor Catte, it looks like a whole bunch of people are about to be handed something they\u2019ve wanted for years. Hopefully, they all take a moment to ask why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2025\/09\/26\/update-israels-increasing-isolation\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Times of Israel, \u201cIsrael is speeding toward global pariah status, with Trump as its only shield\u201d. Trouble is, being seen as Israel\u2019s defender will soon be a political liability too. So how much longer Trump defends it is debatable <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":145607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315952,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315951\/revisions\/315952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}