Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka said that his nation will stand with Israel and do everything it can to block European Union sanctions against Israel while speaking at a press conference during Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s solidarity visit to Prague on Wednesday.

“The Czech Republic will stand by Israel from this moment on; we will not allow any more trade sanctions, even if we have to block it as a single country,” Macinka asserted at the joint press conference held with Sa’ar. 

He added that the Czech Republic “will certainly not allow any suspension or freezing of Israel’s association agreement with the European Union, either in full or in any part of it.”

The Czech position on any potential suspension of EU-Israel ties is a clear “no,” Macinka continued. “We will also look for groups on issues where voting requires a qualified majority, so that no further aggressive steps by the European Union will harm the State of Israel.”

Sa’ar decries left-wing governments forcing the EU to take ‘radical anti-Israeli stance’

Sa’ar also addressed the sanctions and attempts to sever ties with Israel, describing them as “an attempt by certain left-wing governments in Europe to drag the EU into a radical anti-Israeli stance.”

I thank my friend Czech Deputy PM and FM @petr_macinka for hosting me in Prague, our third mutual visit since January.
I arrived with the largest Israeli business-economic delegation since I became FM.
We agreed to soon convene our joint commission to further strengthen… pic.twitter.com/aY940JifEd

— Gideon Sa’ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) May 20, 2026

“In their radical campaign, these governments are breaking all the rules and working against Europe’s consensus-based policy,” Sa’ar continued, accusing anti-Israel EU members of doing so “in order to win applause from the most radical and terrorist states in our region.”

The same hostile governments, Sa’ar stated, are also harming the EU’s relationship with the US, prompting him to ask if Europe’s allies include the Islamic regime in Iran, radical Islam, and Palestinian terrorism.

“I know that this is not the policy of the Czech Republic,” he asserted.

He praised the Czech Republic and some other European governments for maintaining a friendly relationship with Israel, highlighting how important it is for them to understand that “strategic relations with Israel directly benefit Europe – in security, economy, technology, and more.”

Sa’ar called on Israel’s remaining allies in the EU to prevent the organization from being dragged into radical anti-Israel positions that may work against Europe’s interests. 

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