Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Amnesty International's Report on Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Ireland Israel Alliance

Mr. Yoseph Haddad:

Basically, it is very simple. Those NGOs were involved in terror activities. Some of them were also convicted terrorists. Further to that, some of the money they used was for terror activities within Israel and the West Bank and Gaza. The question everyone asks, or that we need to ask, is, if Israel categorises them as terrorist organisations or identifies them as supporting terrorism and how it allows this to happen to a human rights organisation, do we or does anybody know how many anti-Israel NGOs there are that are not categorised as terrorist organisations? So many organisations that are completely against Israel say so out loud, yet Israel never categorises them as terrorists. The simple reason is they are allowed to be an NGO, say what they want and carry out any activity they want as long as they do not approach carrying out terrorist activities. Further to that, we are seeing NGOs within Israel speak out against Israel. This is only another piece of evidence for how Israel is not an apartheid state. If Israel was an apartheid state, there is no way it would have allowed NGOs within Israel to speak and work against the state. Knowing the fact that many NGOs are not categorised as terrorist organisations and work against Israel is the only evidence everyone needs. If Israel categorises them as terrorist organisations, it means they are carrying out illegal activities and terror activities. That is my answer to that question.

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