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

Following on from that point, the Israeli massacre in Gaza continues. Hundreds of people are being killed every day. More than 20,000 have been killed, 70% of whom were women and children. The Taoiseach has indicated that there is nothing really that he can do about it except criticise it. I suggest that what he could do is read, if he has not done so, the reports produced before 7 October by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the UN special rapporteur on the Middle East and the UN Human Rights Council. I could go on. These reports name Israel as a regime guilty of systematic apartheid and crimes against humanity and calls for sanctions.

Here is where this links to the parliamentary liaison unit. Hewlett Packard is a company that is deeply implicated in providing the Israeli military and police with the technology to maintain the illegal settlements and the databases they use for the system of racial segregation, which is the apartheid system. It is also deeply implicated in the 16-year long siege of Gaza. I suggest that the Taoiseach reads those reports, which call for sanctions on Israel, and that we cease our contract with Hewlett Packard for as long as it is implicated in crimes against humanity and apartheid in Israel.

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