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The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has welcomed the publication of the latest report by Michael Lynk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which states clearly that “Israel has imposed upon Palestine an apartheid reality in a post-apartheid world.” The Special Rapporteur’s report now joins others by Al Haq, Yesh Din, B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International in concluding that Israel is guilty of the crime against humanity of Apartheid. Help End Israeli Apartheid: Please take two minutes to sign our EU Citizen’s Initiative calling for an end to trade … Continue reading →
Posted March 23, 2022 in Apartheid, Human Rights, International Law, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, UN, UN Report, United Nations, West Bank.
Both An Garda Síochána and the Police Service of Northern Ireland are engaged in an EU research project called ROXANNE, working in collaboration with the notorious Israeli Ministry of Public Security. CLICK TO TAKE ACTION! This is the Ministry responsible for both the Israel National Police (including the Border Police) and the Israel Prison Service. It oversees routine commission of serious human rights abuses and international law violations against the Palestinian people, and racism and violence directed at minorities within Israel. These well documented violations include brutal killings, the torture and imprisonment of children, medical negligence of political prisoners, … Continue reading →
Posted November 24, 2020 in Action Item, Apartheid, BDS, Campaigns, Child deaths, Child Prisoners, Email Campaign, EU, Gaza, Home Demolitions, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Impunity, International Law, Irish Government, Jerusalem, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Refugees, Report, Right to BDS, Settlements, Settler Violence, UN, United Nations, UNOCHA, War Crimes, West Bank.
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has praised the publication of a new report by Human Rights Watch showing that Israel is committing the dual crimes against humanity of Apartheid and Persecution of the Palestinian people. The report, entitled ‘A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution’, is the latest in a long line of human rights organisations levelling similar charges against Israel, and also calls for international sanctions against the Israeli state and individuals implicated in these crimes. Click here to read our new Briefing Paper breaking down HRW’s report and recommendations IPSC Chairperson Fatin Al Tamimi welcomed … Continue reading →
Posted April 27, 2021 in Analysis, Apartheid, Apartheid Wall, Arms Embargo, BDS, Crime Against Humanity, EU, Factsheet, Gaza, HRW, Human Rights, Impunity, International Law, Irish Government, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Refugees, Right of Return, Sanctions, Settlements, Siege of Gaza, UN, United Nations, War Crimes, West Bank.
Today, 29th November, is International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The United Nations chose this day to mark the shameful day in 1947 when the UN voted to partition Palestine against the wishes of the indigenous people. 73 years on, the Palestinians continue to suffer the disastrous consequences of that imperial decision to allow the colonisation of Palestine. Also, on this day 19 years ago, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign was formed to stand in solidarity with Palestinian people. Our team of volunteers have worked tirelessly throughout these years for Palestinian rights. To mark this occasion we have produced … Continue reading →
Posted November 29, 2020 in Apartheid, BDS, History, Human Rights, International Law, Irish Government, Nakba, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Right of Return, Statements, UN, United Nations, Video, War Crimes.
The Palestine Podcast showcases a selection of lectures, talks and interviews featuring leading experts and social justice activists active on the Palestine-Israel issue. Brought to you by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Click here to view all podcasts. ===== PP#53 – ‘The Future of US Policy Towards Palestine’ with Hatem Bazian and Nadia Hijab [2020-11-02] – (Download here) INFO: Over the past four years, the Trump administration has enacted major long-term changes to US policy with regard to Palestine. With US elections looming, in this episode of the Palestine Podcast, we hear from Al-Shabaka analysts Hatem Bazian and Nadia Hijab who … Continue reading →
Posted November 2, 2020 in Apartheid, BDS, Gaza, Human Rights, Podcast, Political Rights, Sanctions, Settlements, UN, United Nations, UNRWA, USA, War Crimes, West Bank.
In a statement issued yesterday, more than 450 Palestinian and international organisations have called on the United Nations General Assembly to investigate Israel for committing the Crime of Apartheid. Some 50 Irish organisations are signatories to the call, which originated with Palestinian civil society. Noting that “Apartheid is a crime against humanity, giving rise to individual criminal responsibility and State responsibility to bring the illegal situation to an end,” the letter calls on all the UN General Assembly, which begans its 75th session yesterday, to: Launch international investigations into Israel’s apartheid regime over the Palestinian people, including by reconstituting the … Continue reading →
Posted September 23, 2020 in Apartheid, Human Rights, International Law, Irish Government, Open Letter, Political Rights, Press releases, Refugees, Right of Return, Settlements, Statements, UN, United Nations, War Crimes.
In August 2020 the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign produced its latest briefing paper ‘War Crimes in Palestine and the International Criminal Court’. Although primarily aimed at political representatives, we believe it will be of general interest to our supporters. You can read or download the whole document below. Download the full Briefing Paper here War Crimes in Palestine and the International Criminal Court Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign | Briefing Paper | August 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2015 the situation in Palestine was referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC). After a preliminary examination, in December 2019 the Prosecutor of … Continue reading →
Posted August 21, 2020 in Analysis, Apartheid, Briefing Paper, Crime Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, EU, Factsheet, Gaza, Home Demolitions, Human Rights, International Law, Irish Government, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Report, Sanctions, Settlements, Siege of Gaza, United Nations, War Crimes, West Bank and tagged ICC.
Mary Black, Liam Cunningham, Christy Moore, Stephen Rea, Lankum, Frances Black, Colm Tóibín and over 240 others back Amnesty International’s call for a military embargo on Israel “until it fully complies with its obligations under international law” and for the rights of Palestinian refugees to be upheld. Irish cultural figures Mary Black, Lankum, Liam Cunningham, Sinéad Cusack, Christy Moore, Dónal Lunny, Stephen Rea, Kevin Barry, Emer Martin, Frances Black, Anne Enright and Colm Tóibín are among more than 240 musicians, actors, filmmakers, authors and others calling for an end to Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip amid the coronavirus crisis. … Continue reading →
Posted May 13, 2020 in Amnesty, Appeal, Culture, EU, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Irish Government, Nakba, National Rights, Open Letter, Political Rights, Press releases, Refugees, Right of Return, Siege of Gaza, UN, United Nations.
On 21st May 2020 in an event hosted by the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP) Michael Lynk, Clare Daly, Tom Moerehout and Ann Kdair held a friendly discussion and debate about accountability and obligations of companies and governments towards trade with Isreal’s illegal settlements, and wider issues of how we in Europe and beyond can help to achieve justice for the Palestinian people. Note: This video is also available as a podcast which you can listen to here. About the speakers: Michael Lynk – the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in occupied … Continue reading →
Posted May 22, 2020 in Apartheid, BDS, EU, Event Report, Human Rights, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, UN, United Nations, Video, War Crimes, West Bank.
To mark Nakba Day 2020, on Wednesday 13h May the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign was honoured to host an online public meeting with Palestinian legal expert and political analyst Diana Buttu. Ms. Buttu discussed Israel’s latest plan to illegally annex large areas of the West Bank in the context on the ‘Ongoing Nakba’ which has seen the Palestinians subjected to seven decades of dispossession, ethnic cleansing, military occupation, mass incarceration, illegal annexation and racist apartheid. About the speaker Diana Buttu is a Ramallah-based lawyer, analyst and commentator, a former legal advisor to Palestine Liberation Organization, and Policy Advisor to the Palestinian thinktank … Continue reading →
Posted May 15, 2020 in Analysis, Apartheid, BDS, Boycott, Event Report, Gaza, History, Human Rights, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Settlements, UN, United Nations, UNRWA, Video, War Crimes, West Bank.
The Palestine Podcast showcases a selection of lectures, talks and interviews featuring leading experts and social justice activists active on the Palestine-Israel issue. Brought to you by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Click here to view all podcasts. ===== PP#37 – Michael Lynk, Clare Daly, Tom Moerehout and Ann Kdair on ‘Stop Settlements – On The Road To Justice In Palestine’ [2020-05-22] – (Download here) Note: This podcast is also available as a video which you can watch here. INFO: On 21st May 2020 Michael Lynk, Clare Daly, Tom Moerehout and Ann Kdair held a friendly discussion and debate about accountability … Continue reading →
Posted May 22, 2020 in Analysis, Apartheid, Event Report, Human Rights, National Rights, Podcast, Political Rights, Press releases, Public Meeting, Settlements, UN, United Nations, War Crimes, West Bank.
Today is Nakba Day, which marks the 72nd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (‘Catastrophe’) which saw the expulsion of over 750,000 people, two-thirds of the indigenous people of Palestine, forcibly uprooted from their homeland in a brutal act of ethnic cleansing that facilitated the foundation of the Apartheid State of Israel. Today, Palestinian refugees are trapped in an ongoing Nakba, many of them risking their lives crossing the Mediterranean to flee conditions in Syria, facing endemic poverty and discrimination in Lebanon, discriminated against as unrecognised internally displaced placed people inside the Apartheid State of Israel, subject to attacks by Israeli … Continue reading →
Posted May 15, 2020 in Action Item, Apartheid, BDS, Day of Action, Email Campaign, Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, History, Human Rights, International Law, Irish Government, Multimedia, Nakba, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Political Rights, Refugees, Right of Return, UN, United Nations, UNRWA, Video, War Crimes, West Bank.
Last March, with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation of the two million Palestinians trapped in the besieged Gaza Strip gave cause for grave concern. Now, sadly, the worst has begun to come to pass; at the time of writing Gaza has seen at least 400 active cases, most of them from community transmission, with 3 deaths. This means that the coronavirus is at large and a serious threat to Gazan society, not least the estimated 50,000 Nakba survivors who live there. This disaster comes in the context of the apartheid state of Israel tightening the blockade of … Continue reading →
Posted March 30, 2020 in Action Item, Email Campaign, EU, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Irish Government, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Refugees, Siege of Gaza, United Nations, UNRWA.
Dear members and supporters of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), we hope that you and your loved ones are doing as well as you can be in these very difficult and uncertain times, we are thinking of you and send our best wishes to you all. Today we commemorate Palestinian Land Day, which marks the date in 1976 when Palestinian citizens of Israel were gunned down, six of them murdered, while protesting for their rights – and also marks the second anniversary of the Great March of Return in Gaza. Sadly, four decades later those rights are still to be … Continue reading →
Posted March 30, 2020 in Analysis, Apartheid, BDS, Bedouin, Bethlehem, Boycott, Campaigns, Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, Home Demolitions, Human Rights, Impunity, Irish Government, Land Day, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Refugees, Right of Return, Settlements, Siege of Gaza, Statements, UN, United Nations, UNRWA, War Crimes, West Bank.
The Irish general election of 8th February saw the election of 62 TDs who endorsed the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s three #PalestinePledges, while a number of the other 147 candidates who signed up narrowly missed out on taking seats. The pledges call on candidates to Support a ban on trade with Israel’s illegal colonial settlements in Palestine Support an end to the Irish arms trade with Israel, and an end to EU funding of Israeli military manufactures Support free speech and protection of the right to engage in boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigning in the face of efforts to silence and … Continue reading →
Posted February 14, 2020 in Analysis, Arms Embargo, Free Speech, Human Rights, International Law, Irish Government, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Right to BDS, Sanctions, Settlements, UN, United Nations, War Crimes.
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