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

Today is the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Quite honestly, there are double standards in this Government and the western world with regard to their attitude to the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the massacre which Israel has visited and the people of Gaza, the brutality which it continues to visit on the West Bank, the ongoing apartheid for decades, the illegal occupation, ethnic cleansing and the killing of Palestinians with impunity. I know that these are only symbols but the contrast is summed up with the fact that today, for two years, we have had the Ukrainian flags flying here, but we cannot fly the Palestinian flag, even though the local authorities in Dún Laoghaire, in south Dublin, in Fingal and in Cork are flying the Palestinian flag in solidarity with the suffering of the Palestinian people. Why is the Palestinian flag not flying outside on a day when they have suffered genocide at the hands of Israel?

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