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

Like me and most Members of the House, the Taoiseach will have been horrified by the cold-blooded murder of Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. To compound that misery, the Israeli Defence Force attacked sympathisers just for waving the Palestinian flag. Some 50 Palestinian journalists have been systematically murdered by the Israeli Defence Force over the past 20 years. Many people in this country will say that we have to go beyond condemnation and sanction the Israeli state on the basis of systematic murder, occupation and brutality. While the world looks on, lip service is paid in that regard. What is the Government going to do? We did it in the 1980s in respect of apartheid South Africa. Why can we not do it to apartheid Israel?

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