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Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Fintan Warfield: ...stopped talking about Palestine, they have never stopped marching for the besieged people of Gaza and the Palestinian people of the West Bank. They have never stopped marching for an end to the Israeli Government's genocidal campaign which has claimed the lives of more than 28,000 men, women and children. They have never stopped marching for a ceasefire. They have never stopped...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Fintan Warfield: ...in the word "Gaza". Does that work? Mr. Ó Broin said that complaints of this nature are coming from both sides, but it has been suggested it is more intense on Palestinian voices, given many Israeli accounts might be official entities. In 2022, following the 2021 Palestine-Israel conflict, a Facebook-commissioned Business for Social Responsibility, BSR, report concluded that...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Fintan Warfield: ..., the deportations on trains that left that city, alongside the resistance of Parisians to the Nazis. This week, hundreds of thousands of people across the world marched for peace in Palestine and Israel. It is important for people in that part of the world to know that beyond their borders, in the midst of the cacophony of a deadly war, there are people just like them who are thinking...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Oct 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I also want to raise the situation in Gaza and Israel. The situation has obviously become so dangerous, it is necessary for us to schedule time to discuss the hostilities there. A decisive international intervention is needed to end the hostilities and bring about a lasting resolution to the Palestinian question. We need a discussion about what role Ireland can play to show leadership and...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and occupied Palestinian territory: Statements (12 Jul 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The Israeli Government's military bombardment of the Jenin refugee camp caused the deaths of 12 Palestinians, five of whom were children. Thousands of people were forced to leave their homes. It destroyed roads, electricity and water services. The Israeli Government outrageously managed to make refugees out of refugees. The views of the...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner (9 May 2023)

Fintan Warfield: ...of Palestine.The EU is founded on six core principles: respect for human dignity; freedom; democracy; equality; the rule of law; and respect for human rights, including those of minorities. What then of Israel's brutal treatment of the Palestinian people and Israel's occupation of Palestine? Europe should be a champion, in word and deed, for the upholding of human rights, for the ending...

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (1 Mar 2022)

Fintan Warfield: ...Mr. Tim Hanley from Amnesty International and all our visitors in the Public Gallery. I commend Amnesty International on its work on this report. It very much interrogates the record of the Israeli state in its treatment of the Palestinian people. It is a stark document that records a litany of crimes against humanity and it is a damning indictment of an apartheid state that is intent...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: ...for an immediate end to the armed assault on the Palestinian people. The Minister for Foreign Affairs cannot equivocate any longer. The Government must recognise the state of Palestine as the Dáil has done. We must condemn Israel at the Security Council. We need actions, not endless gestures.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2019)

Fintan Warfield: ...is listening not only to the DUP but to the layers of establishment that exist in London. Her comments go right to the heart of that establishment. I want to comment on the Eurovision song contest. Israel's continued abuse of international law damages the two-state solution. Added to that, Israel is using the Eurovision as a way to present its prettier face, and to whitewash and...