Results 1-20 of 69 for israel speaker:Chris Andrews

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)

Chris Andrews: ...barred from participating in the Paris Olympics are Belarus and Russia. It is disgraceful that after the deaths of more than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, the IOC has not barred Israel from the Paris Olympics. Equally, FIFA must ban Israel from international competitions. It was disappointing that only one Government TD signed a letter calling for FIFA and UEFA to ban...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: ...invasion of Ukraine...". I do not see that replicated here when he is saying he is leaving it up to the sporting governing bodies to decide what they want to do, especially with today's match against Israel. Why the contrast in treatment between Russia and Israel? Israel has clearly committed atrocities and the Government has acknowledged that. I spoke with Jonathan Hill of the FAI and...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: I thank the Minister of State. He was saying we would end up not playing any sport in international competitions, but it is Israel that should not be allowed participate in any international sport. Irish Sport for Palestine has secured hundreds of signatures from elite sportspeople. The Dublin ladies made a magnificent gesture to call for a ceasefire. Sporting people get what is happening...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: We have called for Israel to be banned from international sport, so that would include that.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: It is actually competition against Israel.

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: Last Friday the International Court of Justice made a decisive ruling. It ruled that South Africa has a plausible case against Israel for the crime of committing genocide. It is imperative that Ireland acts and joins South Africa in this case. lreland and the EU have a duty to promote, protect and support peace and stability in the region. We must make the terror state of Israel an...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: ...the world and the power to inspire. When you see the Dublin women's Gaelic football team and their brave and inspiring call for a ceasefire in Gaza, you realise how true Mandela's words are. Israel is targeting Palestinian athletes, their sports clubs and their facilities. Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza has been turned into a detention centre for men and boys, who are daily stripped, beaten...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: Archbishop Desmond Tutu said after his visit to Palestine that he was deeply distressed by what he witnessed. The main pillars that upheld apartheid South Africa are being replicated today in Israel, especially in the West Bank, the demarcation of the population into racial groups, the forcing of the different designated groups to reside in different geographic areas, the restriction of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...of any peace process or two-state solution. The Tánaiste mentioned humanitarian aid on numerous occasions. Of course, I welcome that. It is really important. The difficulty is that when Israel destroys that humanitarian aid that has been allocated to Palestinians, blows it up or wrecks it, there are no consequences for Israel doing that. The illegal settlements are an ongoing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...killed and many others were wounded. Yesterday in the West Bank, two Palestinian children were murdered, one of whom was just nine years of age. It is painfully clear that it is innocent Palestinian and Israeli children who are paying the price for the crimes of Hamas and the Israeli Government. A ceasefire is really important but it does not seem as though the EU really believes in a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...about the European Union's approach to the situation in the Gaza Strip. We saw the best of the EU in the response to the brutal crimes inflicted on Ukraine but we have seen the opposite approach to Israel, and that cannot be denied. Some 6,000 children have been slaughtered and the EU has not in any way shown a similar approach to that taken to Ukraine. Is there any hope that the EU...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: 156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the effort he is making to secure a ceasefire in Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50156/23]

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...militarist agenda? This is an agenda which is being pushed so hard by a growing element within the EU. The EU has shown itself repeatedly to be happy to do business with rogue states such as apartheid Israel, which shows no respect for international law. This is a state which does not even hide the brutal crimes it commits. This is a state which murders thousands of children in the...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...genocide. Today it is Palestine; tomorrow it could be anywhere. We need to see the international community take a stand against the genocide occurring in Gaza. There has to be a cost to Israel ignoring international law. Israel has faced no diplomatic consequences for breaching international law and committing war crimes and this must change. Ireland must step up and refer Israel to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (9 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: 171. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of US government or US military aircraft that have passed through Shannon Airport, either on transit travelling with destination of Israel or travelling with flight originating in Israel, between the period 9 October 2023 – 6 November 2023; the dates these planes landed in Shannon Airport, in tabular form; and whether...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: What number of children will have to be murdered by terrorist apartheid Israel before the Irish Government will push for a suspension of all EU trade deals with Israel? Given the horror and terror that are being inflicted daily on Palestinians, what is the number of deaths required before Ireland will speak out in a European context to ensure that Europe does not stand idly by while...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...I saw when I worked in the Gaza Strip were the horrors of life in an open-air prison. Now the Gaza Strip is being turned into an open-air morgue. Bodies are piling higher and higher and apartheid Israel is bombing schools, hospitals and churches. Some 88 UN aid workers have been murdered by Israeli bombs. Over 4,000 children have been brutally murdered. A child is murdered by Israel...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...haircuts. I support these Palestinians, not Hamas or the Palestinian Authority, PA. I lived in the Gaza Strip and I know the difference. The slaughter of civilians, whether they be Palestinian or Israeli, is unforgivable and a war crime. All those who kill civilians must be held accountable. Equally, the events of the past ten days have not arisen out of thin air. They occurred...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Chris Andrews: I welcome the Dáil allocating time to address the unfolding horror we are seeing in Palestine due to the violence by Israel. It has been several years since I visited the Gaza Strip, but the destruction I witnessed then will never leave me. Gaza is actually an open-air prison. There is the wall that stops any movement, whether that is people coming or people going. People are only...

European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...as we critique the recent EU Council meeting. Some two weeks ago here in this Chamber we heard in pre-EU Council meeting statements from several Deputies condemning the brutal actions of apartheid Israel and the murderous rampage it is waging on the Palestinian people. We asked that this condemnation be echoed at the Council meeting. Deputies spoke of the need for Ireland to assert its...