Demonstration
The death toll following Israel’s latest onslaught on Gaza stands at over 2,100, with more than 500 of those children. Actions, events and fundrasiers have been taking around Ireland over the past five weeks and continue to happen. It’s important that as many people as possible turn out to show their solidarity with the Palestinians people who have just lived through this third, and worst, major Israel onslaught in six years. This round of attacks on Gaza have been brutal, and merely compounded by the political inaction and media misreporting of the issue. While the international community and mainstream media … Continue reading →
Posted July 17, 2014 in Demonstration, Event, Event Report, Gaza, Press releases.
As the death toll in Israel’s latest onslaught on Gaza reaches 121, several actions have been called around Ireland taking place this Saturday. It’s important that as many people as possible turn out to show their solidarity with the Palestinians people under attack, their opposition to this latest round of brutal attacks on Gaza, and their anger at political inaction and media misreporting of the issue. EVENTS ON SATURDAY 12th July Dublin – 2pm @ The Spire, O’Connell Street Derry – 2pm @ Guildhall Square Limerick – 2pm @ Thomas Street Cork – 2pm @ Daunt Square The majority of … Continue reading →
Posted July 10, 2014 in Cork, Demonstration, Derry, Dublin, EU, Euro Med, Gaza, Human Rights, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Protest, Siege of Gaza, War Crimes.
On June 8th 2014 the EU and Israel finally signed the Horizon 2020 association agreement which will allow Israel to be a party to the program that doles out research grants using EU taxpayer money. On Wednesday 18th June the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held a symbolic lunchtime protest outside the EU Commission office in Dublin to highlight opposition to Israel’s accession to this agreement. Any EU agreement with Israel should be opposed so long as Israel is an occupier of Palestinian lands and remains a serial human rights abuser and violator of international law. However, this agreement is particularly egregious … Continue reading →
Posted June 23, 2014 in Apartheid, BDS, Demonstration, Dublin, Ethnic Cleansing, EU, EU Guidelines, Euro Med, Event Report, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Impunity, Internment, Irish Government, National Rights, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Protest, Sanctions, Settlements, War Crimes, West Bank.
Members and supporters of the Campaign to Free Marwan Barghouthi and All Palestinian Political Prisoners and the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign demonstrated outside the Dail last Thursday 12th June to mark the 50th day of a mass hunger strike by Palestinians in Israeli jails. Also present on the protest were several elected representatives including independent TDs John Halligan and Thomas Pringle, Sean Crowe TD, Dessie Ellis TD, Aengus O Snodaigh TD and Cllr. Mícheál Mac Donncha from Sinn Fein, the People Before Profit Alliance’s TD Richard Boyd Barrett and Cllr. Tina McVeigh, Joan Collins TD from United Left, independent Cllr. Cieran … Continue reading →
Posted June 19, 2014 in Addameer, Amnesty, Apartheid, Child Prisoners, Demonstration, Dublin, Event Report, Human Rights, Internment, Irish Government, Marwan Barghouthi, National Rights, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Protest.
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.
Today, Sunday 30th March, is Palestinian Land Day! To commemorate and celebrate Palestinian resistance to Israel’s ongoing land expropriation, colonisation, occupation and apartheid, yesterday afternoon the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign brought some Palestinian culture to the streets of Dublin, performing the Dabka, the traditional Palestinian style of dancing (similar to Irish set dancing) to the GPO. Palestinians, Irish and internationals gave it socks, danicng all afternoon! What is Land Day? On 30th March 1976 Israeli military forces shot and killed six young Palestinian citizens of Israel. These young men were among thousands protesting the Israeli government’s expropriation of Palestinian land. The tragic … Continue reading →
Posted March 30, 2014 in BDS, Commemoration, Demonstration, Dublin, Ethnic Cleansing, Event, Event Report, Human Rights, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Political Rights, Press releases, Protest, Settlements, War Crimes.
Between 1st and 8th March, Ireland took part in the 10th annual Israeli Apartheid Week with a series of events including meetings and protests organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC). On Saturday 1st March, the Dublin IPSC branch of the kicked off IAW with a Boycott Israeli Goods day of action. We visited four city centre supermarkets, making consumers aware of their presence, the connection between these products and the occupation of Palestine and asking people to boycott them. We also handed in letters of protest to the management of each store, asking them to cease sticking Israeli goods. … Continue reading →
Posted March 19, 2014 in Academic Boycott, Addameer, Apartheid, Audio, BDS, Cork, Day of Action, Demonstration, Dublin, Economic Boycott, EU, Euro Med, Event Report, Factsheet, Galway, Human Rights, Israeli Apartheid Week, Israeli Embassy, Lidl, Limerick, Marks & Spencer, Multimedia, National Rights, National Tour, Petition, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Protest, Public Meeting, Sanctions, Speaking Tour, Tour, Trade Unions, War Crimes, Women.
Below are some pictures from today’s “Stand up to racism, celebrate diversity” march in Dublin, held to commemorate UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The IPSC was proud to be one of many supporting organisations of the demo, which was organsied by Anti Racism Network Ireland. It was great to see so many out today to saying ‘No to scapegoating of immigrants. No to racism. No to Islamophobia. No to anti-Semitism. And YES to diversity!’ The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination day was established in 1966 by the UN to mark the 1960 Sharpville massacre … Continue reading →
Posted March 22, 2014 in Apartheid, Demonstration, Event Report, Human Rights, National Rights, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases.
Some photos from the #StopPrawerPlan actions held around Ireland in Cork, Dublin and Limerick on Saturday 30th November 2013, as part of the international Day of Rage called for by Palestinian activists. The so-called Prawer Plan envisions the forced displacement of up to tens of thousands indigenous Palestinian Bedouin citizens of Israel from their ancestral land in the Naqab (Negev) desert in southern Israel and their removal to reservations, while the land is given over for the exclusive use of Israeli Jews. If implemented, the Prawer Plan will see the biggest act of Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 1967. … Continue reading →
Posted December 1, 2013 in Apartheid, BDS, Bedouin, Campaigns, Cork, Demonstration, Dublin, Ethnic Cleansing, Event, Event Report, Human Rights, Limerick, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Petition, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases.
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign actions will be taking place in Dublin, Cork and Limerick on Saturday November 30th to protest Israel’s biggest act of ethnic cleansing since 1967, as part of an international day of action called for by Palestinians. Dublin – 1pm @ The Spire, O’Connell Steet, Dublin 1 Cork – 1pm @ Daunt Square, Cork City Limerick – 2pm @ Bedford Row, Limerick City The so-called Prawer Plan will see the forced removal of some 40,000 Palestinian Bedouin from their ancestral homelands in the Naqab/Negev Desert, in the south of the Israeli state, and relocation in a series of … Continue reading →
Posted November 26, 2013 in Action Item, Apartheid, BDS, Bedouin, Demonstration, Ethnic Cleansing, Event, Human Rights, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Political Rights, Press releases, Protest.
To commemorate the 1947 partition of Palestine, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Cork is proud to host a unique week of events starting on Monday 25th November. Mon 25 – Thur 28 Nov 4-Day Film Screening: Al Nakba by Rawan Damen (Parts I – IV) Different Venue in UCC each Day at 1pm – See link for details More info – click here Wed 27 Nov “…for the day after…”: A talk on Gaza by Desmond Travers Metropole Hotel, Cork City at 8pm More info – click here Thur 28 Nov “Reflections on a Voyage among the Dispossessed”: A talk … Continue reading →
Posted November 25, 2013 in Bedouin, Boycott, Commemoration, Demonstration, Ethnic Cleansing, Event, Film Screening, Gaza, Human Rights, Impunity, Nakba, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Political Rights, Press releases, Protest, Public Meeting, Refugees, Right of Return, UN, UN Report, United Nations, War Crimes, West Bank and tagged Declan Greenway, Desmond Travers, Rawan Damen.
On Saturday 15th June 2013, thousands of people took to the streets of Belfast to take part in the Big March for a Fairer World, organised by the ICTU as part of the Fairer World Festival in opposition to the G8 meeting taking place across the province in Enniskillen. The Belfast branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, along with the local Trade Union Friends of Palestine branch and many supporters from around the country marched as part of the ‘Palestine Bloc’, along with an impressive float. Afterwards, a successful film screening, with chat and delicious Palestinian food, took place in … Continue reading →
Posted June 24, 2013 in BDS, Belfast, Demonstration, Event Report, Human Rights, Nakba, National Rights, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Protest, Public Meeting.
On Wednesday 5th June, the IPSC held a small symbolic vigil outside the Israeli Embassy in Dublin to commemorate Naksa Day. For Palestinians, Yawm an-Naksa – or ‘The Day of the Setback’ – marks the beginning of the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967. Since that time Palestinians in the occupied territories have faced a criminal regime of ethnic cleansing, colonistaion and apartheid at the hands of the Israeli state. Photos courtesy of Fatin Al Tamini
Posted June 6, 2013 in Apartheid, Demonstration, Dublin, Event Report, Gaza, Human Rights, Israeli Embassy, National Rights, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases, Protest, Refugees, Settlements, West Bank and tagged Naksa.
On Saturday 11 May 201 the IPSC in Dublin held a ‘Moving Gallery’ which saw people walk from St. Stephen’s Green to the Spire on O’Connell Street carrying large photographs from Al Nakba, Palestinian flags and a giant key – the symbol of Palestinian refugees’ right of return to their homeland. The event commemorated what Palestinians call Nakba Day which marks the 65thanniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (‘Catastrophe’) which saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians, forcibly uprooted from their homeland in an act of ethnic cleansing that facilitated the foundation of the State of Israel. Photos courtesy of Fatin … Continue reading →
Posted May 13, 2013 in Demonstration, Dublin, Event Report, Human Rights, Nakba, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Protest, Refugees, Right of Return.
Palestinian Prisoners’ Day Action, The Spire, O’Connell Street, Dublin on Thursday 18th April 2013. Click here to read the leaflet we distributed to the public (PDF) Photos courtesy of Fatin Al Tamimi.
Posted April 19, 2013 in Apartheid, Child Prisoners, Commemoration, Demonstration, Event, Event Report, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Press releases, Prisoners, Protest.
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