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

Raz Segal is an Israeli historian who specialises in Holocaust and genocide studies. He is among many who in the past couple of weeks have described what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza as genocide. This is an Israeli historian. The Taoiseach may have seen many Jewish people in New York, Canada and across the world raising their voices over what Israel is doing to Gaza and describing it as genocide. For the descendants of those who were victims of the Holocaust and, in Raz Segal's case, people who are experts in this area, to be describing what Israel is doing as genocide really gives us some indication of the barbarity, savagery and brutality of what it is doing. Europe continues to actively support the Israeli state in developing, sustaining and researching the military means through which they are visiting this genocide on the Palestinians and ethnically cleansing them.

I got a very good paper from the Transnational Institute citing the details of some of this. The European Union association agreement has seen €46 billion of trade between Israel and the European Union. Israel received 1,661 grants totalling €1.2 billion in Horizon 2020. The Israelis are also involved in Horizon 2021 to 2027. This includes money for national security studies. It includes money going to the military and strategic affairs programme, the director of which, Gabi Siboni, developed systems and advocated for the use of overwhelming and disproportionate force to be used against civilian populations, and so on and so forth.

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