Defence for Children International
Today, April 17 is Palestinian Prisoners Day, the day of international solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners in Apartheid Israel’s jails. This year, there are more than 5,000 political prisoners incarcerated by apartheid regime, including more than 180 children, over 40 women and 430 people interned without charge or trail. Not only do all of them face the very grave threat of the Covid-19 virus spreading in such enclosed spaces, they also face the problem of widespread medical negligence by Israeli prison authorities. You can watch and share our short video message of solidarity above or on any of the following … Continue reading →
Posted April 17, 2020 in Action Item, Addameer, Administrative Detention, Apartheid, Child Prisoners, Defence for Children International, Event, Film, Human Rights, International Law, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Public Meeting, Video, Women.
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in association with Students for Justice in Palestine and United Against Racism organised a solidarity vigil to protest the imprisonment of Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian child prisoners outside the gates of the Dail (Irish Parliament) at lunchtime on Thursday 25th January 2018. The protest was well attended with many members of the Irish parliament attending including TDs Dessie Ellis, Maureen O’Sullivan, Pat Buckley, Richard Boyd Barret, Gino Kenny, Paul Murphy, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Maurice Quinlivan, John Brady and Joan Collins, and Senators David Norris, Padraig MacLochlainn, Alice Mary Higgins, Niall Ó Donnghaile and Grace O’Sullivan. … Continue reading →
Posted January 25, 2018 in Addameer, Apartheid, Child deaths, Child Prisoners, Defence for Children International, Dublin, Egypt, Event Report, Human Rights, National Rights, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Protest, Sanctions, UN, UNICEF, UNOCHA, UNRWA, War Crimes.
To commemorate the annual International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People 2016, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is honoured to host a speaking tour featuring Ayed Abu Eqtaish from Defence For Children International in Palestine between Monday 28th November and Saturday 3rd December. Mr. Abu Eqtaish will speak in the following locations: Mon 28 – Cork: 7pm, Sample Studios, 3rd Floor Auditorium, 10-19 Sullivan’s Quay Tue 29 – Dublin: 7pm, Academy Plaza Hotel, 10-14 Findlater Place, D1 Wed 30 – Limerick: 7.30pm, Pery’s Hotel, Glentworth St Thur 1 – Galway: 7.30pm, The View, Aras na Mac Leinn, Galway University … Continue reading →
Posted October 26, 2016 in Apartheid, Child deaths, Child Prisoners, Cork, Defence for Children International, Derry, Dublin, Event, Galway, Gaza, History, Human Rights, Impunity, Jerusalem, Limerick, National Rights, National Tour, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Portadown, Press releases, Public Meeting, Settler Violence, Speaking Tour, Tour, War Crimes.
The Irish Minister of State for Training, Skills and Innovation John Halligan is on an official visit to the Palestine-Israel region at the moment. We are informed that as part of his itinerary he is due to meet Naftali Bennett, the Israeli Minster for Education, to discuss “innovation and education”. Bennett is one of the most reprehensible and racist figures in the current Israeli government, which itself is widely considered to be the most extremist in Israel’s history. The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) believes that such a meeting should not take place, and furthermore, that there should be no cooperation … Continue reading →
Posted November 8, 2016 in Academic Boycott, Academic Freedom, Academics for Palestine, Action Item, Apartheid, BDS, BNC, Boycott, Child deaths, Child Prisoners, Defence for Children International, education, Email Campaign, Hasbara, Human Rights, Irish Government, National Rights, Open Letter, PACBI, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, PCHR, Political Rights, Press releases, Right of Return, Sanctions.
In an open letter published in today’s Irish Times and Irish Independent, thirteen of Ireland’s best-known musicians, writers, artists and sports stars have called on the Irish government to join them in supporting the growing worldwide boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. The statement has been welcomed by Palestinian and Irish human rights campaigners. The letter’s signatories are Christy Moore, Mary Coughlan, Robert Ballagh, Donal Lunny, Frances Black, Trevor Hogan, Dervla Murphy, Seamus Deane, Felim Egan, Margaretta D’Arcy, Jim Fitzpatrick, Honor Heffernan and Gavin Kostick. The letter welcomes Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan’s support for BDS as … Continue reading →
Posted June 14, 2016 in Academic Boycott, Amnesty, Apartheid, BDS, Boycott, Cultural Boycott, Defence for Children International, Divestment, Economic Boycott, Human Rights, Impunity, Irish Artists' Pledge to Boycott Israel, Irish Government, Irish Times, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Sanctions, War Crimes.
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has distributed the following important and informative new briefing paper to members of the Oireachtas, members of the European Parliament and members of local Irish councils. Titled Israel 2015: A government of extremists in charge of an-out-of control military, the paper is an in-depth investigation the extremist nature of the new Israeli government, the shocking views of its leading members, and the appalling recent record of the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza. Finally the document makes a series of recommendations that we believe the Irish government must take to help ensure that Israel is held to … Continue reading →
Posted May 26, 2015 in Analysis, Apartheid, Arms Embargo, BDS, Bedouin, BNC, Boycott, Breaking the Silence, Briefing Paper, Campaigns, Child deaths, Defence for Children International, Divestment, Economic Boycott, Ethnic Cleansing, EU, EU Guidelines, Euro Med, Factsheet, Gaza, Home Demolitions, Human Rights, Impunity, Irish Government, Nakba, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Petition, Political Rights, Press releases, Sanctions, Settlements, Settler Violence, Siege of Gaza, Statehood, UN, War Crimes, West Bank.
In the latest of literally thousands of such reports dating back over decades, this week Defence For Children International produced a report entitled ‘Operation Protective Edge: A War Waged on Gaza’s Children’. The findings of the report merely add more weight to the call for an arms embargo on Israel and an end to the Irish arms trade with this rogue state. The report “found overwhelming and repeated evidence of international humanitarian law violations committed by Israeli forces. These included direct attacks on children, and indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks on civilian homes, schools, and residential neighbourhoods”, that “Israel, the world’s … Continue reading →
Posted April 21, 2015 in Analysis, Arms Embargo, BDS, Child deaths, Defence for Children International, Factsheet, Gaza, Human Rights, Infographic, Irish Government, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Sanctions, Siege of Gaza, War Crimes.
The IPSC deplores the brutal murder of the three young Israeli citizens whose remains were found on Monday near Hebron and the apparent ‘revenge’ murder of a Palestinian teenager reportedly carried out by Israeli extremists early Wednesday. Equally the IPSC deplores the deaths of all civilians killed in this conflict of unequals, including the six civilians killed by Israeli occupation forces since the Israeli teenagers were kidnapped. The IPSC is concerned that the unjustifiable killings of the three Israelis will be used to justify further killings, destruction and illegal settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) by the Israeli … Continue reading →
Posted July 2, 2014 in Addameer, Amnesty, Apartheid, B'Tselem, Briefing Paper, Child deaths, Child Prisoners, Defence for Children International, Ethnic Cleansing, Human Rights, Internment, Irish Times, Jerusalem, Media Bias, National Rights, PCHR, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Settlements, Settler Violence, Siege of Gaza, The Media, UN, UNICEF, UNOCHA, War Crimes, West Bank.
The Anglo-Danish security firm G4S is one of a number of private companies bidding for the JobPath contract with the Irish state. Amongst other things, G4S is notorious for its operations and service provision within the Israeli prison system. IMPORTANT UPDATE: It was announced on Friday 6th June by G4S that it will pull out of the Israeli prison regime within three years. But as Randa Wahbe of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association notes, ” this has no immediate effect on those facing human rights violations inside Israel’s prisons today [and] G4S has a long track record of … Continue reading →
Posted March 26, 2014 in Action Item, Addameer, Amnesty, Apartheid, BDS, Campaigns, Child Prisoners, Defence for Children International, EU Guidelines, G4S, Gaza, Human Rights, Irish Government, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Stop G4S, War Crimes, West Bank, Women.
On Sunday 22nd June 2014 the mass Palestinian hunger strike in Israeli prisons – the longest such mass strike in Palestinian history – moved into it’s 60th day. We present and an info-graphic explaining why the strike is taking place, and what is going on inside the prisons and on the strike. The strike is now taking place in the context of the mass Israeli collective punishment of the Palestinian people, ostensibly as part of a search for three missing Israeli teenage illegal settlers, who are presumed kidnapped. This collective punishment, which has seen a further 400 Palestinians arrested, at … Continue reading →
Posted June 23, 2014 in Addameer, Amnesty, Apartheid, Defence for Children International, Factsheet, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Infographic, Internment, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners.
Kevin Squires, National Coordinator of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has a written an article for the Irish magazine Rabble which looks at the Irish media and its shameful lack of coverage of the cold-blooded murder of two unarmed Palestinian teenagers last week, even though the killings were caught on video. Below is an excerpt [I]t seems the heavily edited Reuters piece wasn’t deemed newsworthy enough for the Irish Times website, where perhaps an expanded report could have been published, and the videos even embedded for readers to see for themselves. On the other hand, a fluff piece – with accompanying … Continue reading →
Posted May 22, 2014 in Analysis, Apartheid, Child deaths, Defence for Children International, Ethnic Cleansing, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Irish Times, Media Bias, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Protest, Refugees, Right of Return, RTE, Settlements, Video, War Crimes, West Bank, Yesh Din.
Today, Thursday April 17th is Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, and to mark the occasion the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be hosting two events in Dublin – A vigil from 5-7pm outside St. Stephen’s Green to highlight private security firm G4S’ complicity with Israeli abuses in apartheid’s prison regime. (Click here for more info) and Two film screenings focusing on Palestinian child prisoners beginning at 7.30pm in the Pearse Centre on Pearse St; the Dublin premiere of ‘Small Hands in Handcuffs’ & excerpts of ‘Stone Cold Justice’. (Click here for more info) Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories … Continue reading →
Posted April 16, 2014 in Addameer, Amnesty, Apartheid, BDS, Campaigns, Child Prisoners, Defence for Children International, Demonstration, Divestment, Email Campaign, Event, Factsheet, Film Premiere, Film Screening, G4S, Human Rights, Impunity, Infographic, National Rights, Petition, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Stop G4S, War Crimes, Women.
We are asking Chris de Burgh to respect the Palestinian boycott call and not to play apartheid Israel on March 29th 2014. Below is a letter we issued to Mr. de Burgh. As we have not received any response since sending it, we are now issuing it as an open letter. Please like, share and post on the following Facebook page so we can inform him about BDS and ask him not to cross the Palestinian picket line: Chris de Burgh, Don’t Even Fix a Price with Apartheid Israel Palestinian civil society has called for a cultural boycott of Israel. … Continue reading →
Posted March 22, 2014 in Amnesty, Apartheid, BDS, Boycott, Cultural Boycott, Defence for Children International, Human Rights, National Rights, Open Letter, PACBI, Political Rights, Press releases.
