Departmental Offices
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-28
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

Enormous protests over the attempt by the far-right Netanyahu Government to interfere with the judicial process have rocked Israel. For Palestinians, there is a pretty grim irony in all of this. While it might be legitimate to worry about political interference with independent judicial workings, for the Palestinians there is absolutely no recourse to justice whatsoever because, as many human rights organisations have reported, they are victims of an apartheid system, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing, and have been for decades. Their rights are never vindicated. The western powers who are so keen to impose sanctions on, for example, Russia for doing similar things in Ukraine, refused point-blank to impose sanctions on Israel for doing the same thing to the Palestinians. How does the Taoiseach square that inconsistency in the refusal of the European Union to impose sanctions on Israel?

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Sitting date: 2023-03-28