EU Hypocrisy Exposed: Corruption and Foreign Influence Behind Selective Recognition of Palestine 

On November 26, 2025 JNS reported "Europe has shifted on Israel. Since Oct. 7, 12 European countries, including the United Kingdom, France and Spain, have recognized a Palestinian state and now routinely vote against the Jewish state at the United Nations..."

If Europe's shift on Israel is only because the EU is against "occupation" why don't they care about the Chinese occupation of Tibet? What role do EU Corruption scandals with China and Qatar play in EU's pro-Palestinian policy?

On August 10, 2025 Robert Williams wrote in Gatestone Institute "[T]he EU organization itself... -- once again –- is at the center of a new corruption scandal.... While Huawei has been effectively banned in the US – and has closed all its official and direct lobbying operations in Washington in early 2024 – the company has been free to do its influence peddling in the EU, where it is not banned. China's influence in Europe in a multitude of areas is already highly present... The Belgian raid came roughly two years after the so-called Qatargate: In December 2022, Belgian authorities uncovered the bribery of Members of European Parliament by Qatar... Politico reported on the leaked files, dubbed "the Qatargate files" in December 2023: "The actions recorded in the documents include some with a significant impact on the workings of the European Union — such as scheming to kill off six parliamentary resolutions condemning Qatar's human rights record..."

Are EU Corruption scandals and foreign influence the reason why EU politicians are rushing to recognize Palestine but don't care about Tibet?

Freetibet.org reports "The Chinese government has forced over two million Tibetan nomads from their lands, sending them to live in appalling barrack-like conditions in urban settlements.

"Torn away from their livelihoods, they have no means to make money, and are left to face poverty, unemployment, and social exclusion...

"...Tibetans who voice their concerns about any Chinese policies through peaceful protest can be arrested, imprisoned and even killed by security forces – just like Norpa Yonten, a 49-year-old herder who was killed during a mass shooting in January 2012..."

On January 13, 2024 Tibet.net reported "The PRC government’s “Sinicization” campaign in Tibet continues to intensify, evident by the persistent operations of state-run colonial boarding schools housing nearly 1 million Tibetan children, even as Tibetan schools are being systematically shut down across the region. The government mouthpieces have amplified their publicity of boarding schools, indicating their intent to offer education to children from all regions of Tibet. However, they failed to address pressing curriculum concerns or discriminatory policies that impede access to cultural, religious, and language education for Tibetan students... "

SaveTibet.org reported "The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom’s 2024 annual report, published May 1, highlights the deterioration of religious freedom in Tibet due to the Chinese government’s intensified suppression and “Sinicization” of Tibetan Buddhism.

"Sinicization is a Chinese policy that aims to bring Tibetan Buddhism under the control of the Chinese Communist Party...

"...Forced assimilation of Tibetan children Highlighting the forced separation of over 1 million Tibetan children from their families in state-run boarding schools and the government’s measures to stop Tibetans from freely practicing their Buddhist faith, the commission spotlighted that:

"The government separated one million Tibetan children from parents, putting them in state-run boarding schools to forcibly assimilate them. Some local authorities banned parents from teaching religion to Tibetan children..."

In 1949, China invaded Tibet and initiated a massive transfer of Chinese civilians into Tibet.

In his 5-point peace plan the Dalai Lama stated:

“When the newly formed People's Republic of China invaded Tibet in 1949/50, it created a new source of conflict. This was highlighted when, following the Tibetan national uprising against the Chinese and my flight to India in 1959, tensions between China and India escalated into the border war in 1962. Today large numbers of troops are again massed on both sides of the Himalayan border and tension is once more dangerously high.

"The real issue, of course, is not the Indo-Tibetan border demarcation. It is China's illegal occupation of Tibet, which has given it direct access to the Indian sub-continent. The Chinese authorities have attempted to confuse the issue by claiming that Tibet has always been a part of China. This is untrue. Tibet was a fully independent state when the People's Liberation Army invaded the country in 1949/50...

"To improve relations between the Tibetan people and the Chinese, the first requirement is the creation of trust. After the holocaust of the last decades in which over one million Tibetans - one sixth of the population - lost their lives and at least as many lingered in prison camps because of their religious beliefs and love of freedom, only a withdrawal of Chinese troops could start a genuine process of reconcilitation. The vast occupation force in Tibet is a daily reminder to the Tibetans of the oppression and suffering they have all experienced. A troop withdrawal would be an essential signal that in future a meaningful relationship might be established with the Chinese, based on friendship and trust...

"The massive transfer of Chinese civilians into Tibet in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) threatens the very existence of the Tibetans as a distinct people.”

"Today, in the whole of Tibet 7.5 million Chinese settlers have already been sent, outnumbering the Tibetan population of 6 million. In central and western Tibet, now referred to by the Chinese as the “Tibet Autonomous Region,”

"Chinese sources admit the 1.9 million Tibetans already constitute a minority of the region’s population. These numbers do not take the estimated 300,000-500,000 troops in Tibet into account – 250,000 of them in so-called Tibet Autonomous Region…For the Tibetans to survive as a people, it is imperative that the population transfer is stopped and Chinese settlers return to China. Otherwise, Tibetans will soon be no more than a tourist attraction and relic of a noble past...

"Human rights violations in Tibet are among the most serious in the world. Discrimination is practiced in Tibet under a policy of "apartheid" which the Chinese call "segregation and assimilation". Tibetans are, at best, second class citizens in their own country. Deprived of all basic democratic rights and freedoms, they exist under a colonial administration in which all real power is wielded by Chinese officials of the Communist Party and the army.

"Although the Chinese government allows Tibetans to rebuild some Buddhist monasteries and to worship in them, it still forbids serious study and teaching of religion. Only a small number of people, approved by the Communist Party, are permitted to join the monasteries.

"While Tibetans in exile exercise their democratic rights under a constitution promulgated by me in 1963, thousands of our countrymen suffer in prisons and labour camps in Tibet for their religious or political convictions... ”

On February 6, 2023 the United Nations reported "Around a million children of the Tibetan minority were being affected by Chinese government policies aimed at assimilating Tibetan people culturally, religiously and linguistically through a residential school system, UN experts* warned today.

“We are very disturbed that in recent years the residential school system for Tibetan children appears to act as a mandatory large-scale programme intended to assimilate Tibetans into majority Han culture, contrary to international human rights standards,” the experts said.

Savetibet.org reports "Under Chinese rule, Tibetans are persecuted simply for preserving their cultural identity and most basic rights. They can be jailed and tortured just for celebrating the Dalai Lama’s birthday. And they face immense restrictions on their abilities to practice their religion, travel and speak freely."

EU Corruption scandals with China and Qatar help explain why corrupt EU politicians recognize Palestine but not Tibet.

Ezequiel Doiny is author of “Obama’s assault on Jerusalem’s Western Wall” and “Jerusalem is the Spiritual capital of Judaism while Mecca is the Spiritual Capital of Islam”