Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Like many other Deputies and many members of the public, I was shocked to see the Israeli ambassador at the Famine commemoration at the weekend. This was a political decision on the part of the Government. Having the Israeli ambassador commemorating the Famine as Israel is busy committing genocide in the occupied territories was pure hypocrisy. We need to have a debate on this matter. We may be about to recognise the state of Palestine tomorrow but we need to go a lot further than that. We need to call out Israel on what it is doing and we need to have a debate in the House to make sure that happens.

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