Ireland stands with Palestine and will not accept Israel’s illegal expansion and demolition of Palestinian homes.Ireland is the first EU country to make this declaration.
Ireland’s government on Tuesday supported a parliamentary motion condemning the “de facto annexation” of Palestinian land by Israeli authorities in what it said was the first use of the phrase by a European Union government in relation to Israel.In a single day, Ireland backed a PLO resolution to single out Israel as a violator of health rights at the United Nations and passed, with the support of all politicians and parties in the Dáil, a motion to make Ireland an outlier in the EU. If that wasn’t enough, forty-six TDs backed the expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland. On 26th May 2021, Ireland chose to stand against the world’s only Jewish State and the sole democracy in the Middle East and chose instead to side with the likes of Iran, Turkey and Cuba
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, who has represented Ireland on the United Nations Security Council in debates on Israel in recent weeks, supported the motion, and condemned what he described as Israel’s “manifestly unequal” treatment of the Palestinian people.
But he also insisted on adding a condemnation of recent rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian militant group Hamas before he agreed to government support for the motion, which had been tabled by the opposition Sinn Fein party.
The motion came days after a ceasefire ended 11 days of the worst fighting between Palestinian militants and Israel in years. The violence sparked large pro-Palestinian protests in Dublin.Sinn Fein refused to support the government amendment condemning Hamas attacks.