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

How does the ambassador justify that? How does he justify those double standards?

As people such as Archbishop Tutu and Nelson Mandela have done, I would certainly describe the Israeli state as an apartheid state with different laws for people depending on their race or religion. For example, at checkpoints going into the West Bank, there is a channel for those who are Israeli or European and a separate channel for Arabs. If the ambassador was stopped when coming into Leinster House and told he could not come through the same entrance as Irish and European people because he was Jewish, he would call it racism and apartheid. However, Israel practises that with its checkpoints, military barrier and apartheid wall. How can the ambassador justify that?