Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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I will allow Ms Hausdorff to answer at the end.

The issue of consensus is interesting. There is not an antisemite in this room or in the Dáil, yet there sometimes appears to be what I will not describe with a term as strong as “consensus”. The Chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee seemed to reflect a consensus on where Ireland comes from in relation to this, referring to a position of “profound antisemitism”. People will not find antisemitism here. Mr. Shatter would do this country, which he and we all love, a great favour by promulgating that view as widely and strongly as he possibly can.

The final speaker is Senator-----