Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Israel is involved in a brazenly naked illegal occupation of Palestinian land and territory. This week, its cabinet authorised further illegal settlements on land that, under international law, is designated for the Palestinians. In the first month of this year, 50 Palestinians died in what was the deadliest month we have seen in decades, with the Israeli army running constant military raids into Palestinian territory, as they did last year. International human rights organisations have said, categorically, that the entire apparatus of the Israeli state has been operating on an apartheid basis against Palestinians since its foundation. Will the Taoiseach explain why the EU and our Government does nothing about this? Will he explain to me, to the world and to the Palestinians why the EU says that any and all means must be used to support the Ukrainian people in their fight against the illegal occupation of their country, but not a thing is done to support the Palestinians in their fight against the illegal occupation of their land and territory, the crushing of their right to self-determination, the apartheid system that is obnoxious to international law and to human rights and the 17-year-long siege of Gaza? The murder, oppression and persecution goes on and nothing is done. No sanctions are imposed. Will the Taoiseach explain the double standards?

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