Dáil debates

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

 

12:20 pm

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

-----which is what Israel is doing, has the right to perpetrate those crimes. These are crimes against humanity. This is a regime that for decades has denied UN resolutions calling for the right of return of Palestinians, millions of whom have been ethnically cleansed since 1948, and are living in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, cast to the winds of the world. They are denied statehood, denied identity, denied history and they have the right to return, but Israel shoots them down if they try and assert that right, as happened to the Great March of Return. Let us remember that. Peaceful demonstrations in 2018 by the people of Gaza, who were attempting to assert their right to return, were shot down. At the time, the UN called for investigations on that episode for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Will the Taoiseach call for sanctions against the apartheid regime of Israel? Will he call for the European Union and the United States to stop arming that regime to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity?

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