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

I framed the question about the Genocide Convention because I want to know what the character of the Tánaiste's intervention with the United States or Israel is. We have more or less got it, "Ah, we condemn this, we condemn that." A bit of this, a bit of that. I am trying to reframe this and say we are talking about genocide. We are signatories of the Genocide Convention. The International Court of Justice said there is a plausible genocide taking place. This is not a bit of this and a bit of that. It is not a bit of disproportionality by Israel and a little bit of terrorism, as the Tánaiste wants to present it, by a Palestinian faction.

This is a case of a people who have been oppressed since 1948, who have been subject in Gaza to a siege for 17 years and who are subject to illegal occupation and apartheid. They are being oppressed by Israel, which is now committing genocide. What is the Tánaiste saying about that?

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