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

I attended the demonstration in London two weeks ago. For British political and government figures to call it thuggish is absolutely outrageous. It was an entirely peaceful demonstration and the thought that there would be efforts to deter people from protesting or even banning them is absolutely outrageous. One of the things that protesters here and in Britain on that day and at all of the protests are puzzled about is the attitude of the British Government, the Taoiseach's Government, the United States Government and western Governments to international law. The Taoiseach, Rishi Sunak and others have repeatedly said that Israel has the right, through military means, to pursue Hamas and that has given cover to the justification for the slaughter in Gaza. First, I ask the Taoiseach, if a paramilitary group in Ireland attacked Britain would that give Britain the right to bomb Dublin or Belfast, for example? That is the logic that is being applied. Second, if any actor has the right to pursue by military means an entire population in order to pursue a particular paramilitary antagonist, do the Palestinians have the same right to so-called self-defence? I am seriously asking this question.

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