Ms Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh:

The proposed legislation is doing no more - in fact it is doing less - than the International Court of Justice has made clear Ireland is obliged to do in order to comply with its international obligations in the face of what the International Court of Justice has determined to be egregious violations by Israel of its obligations in the occupied Palestinian territories - its illegal presence in the occupied territories; its continuing deprivation of the right of Palestinians to self-determination; and its seizure of territory by force. It cannot be said that a determination that Israel is in violation of its international obligations is antisemitic. That determination not being antisemitic, it cannot conceivably be antisemitic on the part of Ireland to seek to implement and comply with those obligations.