Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

A number of weeks ago, six human rights organisations were designated as terrorist organisations by the State of Israel. A number of these organisations receive funding from Irish Aid. The allegations made against them are extremely serious and are designed to smear anybody who stands against Israel's continued brutal occupation of Palestine. Israel will continue to do this with impunity and will give the Minister and his EU counterparts the complete runaround regarding its crimes. If that is the case, as we have said many times why it does this country and the European Union continue to treat Israel like a normal state? It is not a normal state. It is an abnormal state. It continues to brutalise NGOs that stand for human rights, and it is also continuing with its brutal occupation of Palestine.

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