Xavier Abu Eid

Xavier Abu Eid Abu Eid is a former senior adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization negotiations affairs department.

Suspending the EU-Israel trade deal is now the only tool left for Brussels
21 April 2026 by Xavier Abu Eid
Suspending the Association Agreement with Israel is the only tool left for the European Union. The EU remains Israel’s main trading partner – yet this leverage has rarely been used to apply pressure.
EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas has seemed more concerned with undoing what her predecessor Josep Borrell sought to achieve in the region, than with addressing the catastrophic consequences of allowing Israel to act with impunity.
Why doesn’t the EU recognise the anniversary of the Nakba?
15 May 2025 by Xavier Abu Eid
The 15 May marks the forced expulsion and displacement of 700,000 thousand Palestinians during the conflict that created the State of Israel in 1948. Not that you would know that from the EU.
- Opinion
After Gaza, now the EU is silent on the West Bank situation
23 January 2025 by Xavier Abu Eid
The current situation in Palestine is not the entire responsibility of the European Union. But the killing of 10 Palestinians, blocking the access to the Jenin Hospital as well as setting the West Bank into a lockdown has been met with no Western reaction, including from the EU.
- Opinion