In recent months, mobilizations in solidarity with the Palestinian people have grown around the world. But not everywhere are they welcomed — or even tolerated — by the powers that be. In April, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was meant to appear, via video link, at a congress for Palestine in Berlin. Instead, the meeting was broken up by police and he was barred from entering the country.

Ahead of next weekend’s elections for the European Parliament, Israel’s war in Gaza is, for many leading parties, an issue they’d rather not talk about. But Varoufakis’s pan-European party, DiEM25, is surely an exception, taking a strong stand for Gaza. In an interview with Ferdinando Pezzopane, he spoke about the West’s complicity in the war, the protests against it, and the prospect of building a different kind of Europe.