Middle East
Dail Éireann — 2023-09-28
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Gary Gannon (SD), Dublin Central

We have had a number of exchanges on this issue. In a recent engagement the Tánaiste highlighted his predecessors in Fianna Fáil who took what I would argue was the brave position of being the first to call for the Palestinians' right to a homeland. In order to highlight where we have been brave in the past, and where some of the Tánaiste's predecessors were brave in the past, does the Tánaiste not think there is also a time for us to stand up unilaterally and say if the other 26 EU countries will not act in concert then we might need to go beyond it? I call for recognition of what is happening as apartheid. I would go further with regard to recognition of the Palestinian people. When will we act and demonstrate a bit of courage and call it for what it is?

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Sitting date: 2023-09-28