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

I have made it very clear that it is quite shameful what people like Ursula von der Leyen and some of the European Union states have done to essentially give carte blancheto Israel to commit war crimes against the people of Gaza, and indeed their failure to hold that regime to account over many years for its crimes against the Palestinian people.

I will refer to a particularly disturbing case that has come to light in that regard in the last couple of days. My office was contacted yesterday by Courtney Carey who was sacked yesterday from Wix, which is an Israeli-owned IT company based in Grand Canal Dock that does website building. They sacked her because she had put posts online - according to her, they were quite mild - in which she essentially laid the responsibility for the current violence in Gaza on the shoulders of the Israeli Government for its apartheid policies, its occupation and its siege of Gaza. She was sacked for that, with the chief operating officer of the company apparently telling her that to say those things was tantamount to justifying terrorism. Very worryingly, Ms Carey reports that since 7 October, the company, through inner channels to the employees, was telling them it would be in their interests to put up pro-Israeli content and posts in company updates and so on. She has said, disturbingly, that they were told it would be best only to show some of those posts to people who looked European. She has now lost her job. This is shocking behaviour. I understand - perhaps the Taoiseach could check - that this company is supported by IDA Ireland. Will the Taoiseach condemn what Wix has done to Courtney Carey and investigate this treatment of an employee?

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