Petition: Thousands demand that Dunnes stop stocking Israeli goods
[29th July] Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by over 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international law. Present at the handing-in were Brendan Archbold, the trade union official at the centre of the 1980s Dunnes strike when workers refused to handle South African goods, Freda Hughes IPSC National Chairperson, Aengus O'Snodaigh TD of Sinn Fein along with supporters of the campaign and members of both the Palestinian and South African communities in Ireland.
The petition has been signed by over 6,000 shoppers in a two-week blitz that has seen Palestine solidarity activists enlist the support of Dunnes’ customers across the country. Signatures have flooded in from Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Derry, Limerick, Galway, Kilkenny, Newry, Wexford, Waterford, Bantry, Gorey, Enniscorthy, and Sligo. In many locations around the country, solidarity activists presented their local Dunnes' managers with copies of the petitions they have collected.
This campaign comes a quarter-century after Dunnes was at the centre of a bitter two-year campaign of boycott and pickets, when it sacked a group of workers who refused to handle South African goods.
Fingal County Council passes motion condemning Veoila operations in Palestine / South Dublin motion deferred
[15th July] On Monday 12th July, Fingal County Council passed a motion - tabled by Labour Party councillor Patrick Nulty - that condemned Veolia's illegal operations in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Meanwhile, also on Monday a similar motion before South Dublin County Council, tabled by Cllr. Dermot Looney of the Labour Party, was deferred until the next meeting in September.
Love Football, Hate Apartheid: Protest at Shamrock Rovers v Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv - Thur 15th July
[13th July] The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), supported by Eirigi, the Palestinian Right Institute & Irish Anti War Movement, will hold a peaceful protest at the Shamrock Rovers vs Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv game in Tallaght Stadium on Thursday July 15th. The protest starts at 7pm and will take place outside the stadium.
Outside the stadium banners reading, ‘Love Football, Hate Apartheid’, ‘Boycott Israeli Apartheid’ and ‘Unity against Occupation' will be displayed peacefully alongside Palestinian flags. We certainly don't want to hijack Rovers first European game in years and are asking our supporters not to interupt the game under any circumstances. The protest will take place outside, but if Rovers supporters want to take Palestinian flags into the game we would be happy to see them in the stands.
IPSC welcomes Irish Government move to block transfer of EU citizen data to Israel
[8th July] The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) today welcomed the move by Irish Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern to block a proposed European Commission data-sharing plan with Israel. If adopted the proposal would have given the green light to EU member states to allow the transfer to and storage of sensitive personal data on European citizens to Israel.
The European Commission proposal was for EU member states to give a green-light to a declaration that the EU recognises Israeli data protection standards as being sufficient to allow member states to transfer sensitive personal data to Israel. Without such a declaration, the transfer of sensitive personal data to Israel is illegal. As a result of the Irish objection, the move will now have to be debated in an EU committee that deals with protection of personal data.
Take Action: Ireland's EU envoy aids Israeli war machine
[2nd July] Ireland’s EU commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn is set to approve two technology grants for an Israeli company that made some of the most lethal weapons used in last year’s war against Gaza.
Brussels officials are assessing a new series of Israeli applications for funding under the EU’s multi-annual research programme, which Geoghegan-Quinn administers. The probable beneficiaries include Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), manufacturer of the Heron, a warplane that terrorised Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants in late 2008 and 2009.
New Items in IPSC Store
IPSC/Phoenix Booklet and Gaza: A Background to the Conlfict
[2nd July] Two new items are available for purchase in the IPSC Online Store.
Goldstone Report Feature - War Crimes in Apartheid Israel: This booklet - jointly produced by the IPSC and Phoenix magazine - features contributions from many leading anti-apartheid campaigners, trade unionists, politicians, journalists and other public figures, including Kader Asmal, Col. Desmond Travers, Minister Ciaran Cuffe and Jamal Juma'. The booklet is notable not only for the range of it's contributers, but also for the fact that it features Irish politicians from all the Dail parties calling for sanctions against Israel - chiefly the suspension of Israel from the Euro-Med Agreement. The booklet is also available as a PDF here (free of charge, though we would ask that if you find it informative that you please purchase a copy to support our work).
Gaza: A Background to the Conflict: This short pamphlet, written by the IPSC's Daniel Finn, provides a detailed account of the events that took place in Gaza between Israel's so called "disengagement" in August 2005 and the end of the Israeli massacre dubbed "Operation Cast Lead", which left over 1,400 Palestinians dead and Gaza in ruins. Read the introduction to the pamphlet here.
[1st July] New briefing papers and factsheets produced by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign are now available for download. The following documents are now available:
An Irish Ethical Council for Investment (IPSC Submission to Oireachtas Sub-Committee on Human Rights)
The Gaza Blockade, Operation Cast Lead, Freedom Flotilla Massacre & Ongoing Occupation The Case for the Suspension of Israel from the Euro-Med Agreement (Briefing Document for Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Affairs)
An End to Impunity - The Gaza flotilla and the siege of Gaza (Briefing Document for Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs)
The Histadrut: Israel's Colonial, Racist Trade Union Federation (Factsheet)
An Introduction to Israeli Apartheid (Facsheet)
How Israeli arms companies benefit from EU science funds (Briefing Paper)
Video: Bil'in & Nabi Saleh Protest Against Israeli Blood Diamonds
[1st July] At a protest in the village of Nabi Saleh honouring the many Palestinians jailed for inordinate periods of time by Israel for resisting the Occupation, Huwaida Arraf urged people of conscience worldwide to boycott Israeli blood diamonds as these cut diamonds are the foundation of the Israeli economy and amount to some $20 billion in exports annually.
In Bil'in, a similar protest was held focusing on the Israeli blood diamonds issue with head of the popular Committee; Iyad Burnat calling for a global boycott from people with active conscience
Irishman harassed at Tel Aviv diamond conference protest calling for review of Kimberly Process
[24th June] On Wednesday 23rd June, Irishman Tommy Donnellan took part in a protest outside the meeting of Kimberley Process Conference in the Hotel Dan Panorama in Tel Aviv. The conference is meeting to discuss the global trade in “conflict” or “blood diamonds”, and the protest was organised to highlight the double standard in the Kimberly Process which bans the trade in rough diamonds that fund human rights abuses but facilitates the far more lucrative trade in cut and polished diamonds that also fund such abuses – including Israel’s occupation of Palestine. During the protest, Mr Donnellan was questioned by Israeli police and had his passport and phone numbers taken down.
Speaking from Tel Aviv, Mr. Donnellan said: “Israel, like Zimbabwe, is a state that stands accused of gross human rights violations. Israel is the world’s leading diamond exporter with exports valued at $20 billion in 2008. However as Israel’s diamonds are cut and polished they slip under the radar of the Kimberly Process scheme. Revenue from the Israeli diamond industry funds that state’s war crimes and human rights abuses against the Palestinian people, yet the focus of this week’s Kimberly Process meeting is on Zimbabwe’s diamond exports which are more than 1,200 times less than Israeli exports.”
[24th June] ‘Boycott Israel’ was the legend emblazoned across 63 year-old Billy Fitzpatrick’s jumpsuit as he skydived from 4,000 metres, at the Skydive Ireland airfield in Nenagh, Co Tipperary.
The former TUI president (1989-1992) performed a tandem freefall of over 2 kilometres before parachuting to earth, in an effort to raise funds for the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC).
After a lifetime in education, Mr. Fitzpatrick had considered seeking sponsorship for the rebuilding of some of the schools flattened in last year’s Gaza bombardment. "However, I felt that helping to pressurise Israel from continuing its seemingly endless cycle of attacks, through the kind of painstaking education and campaigning work carried out by the IPSC and others, was probably more effective", he said.
"After the recent massacre on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza in international waters, surely the only course available to civil society now is the one called for by the IPSC, ICTU and TUI: the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel?’"Mr. Fitzpatrick argued.
Speaking on behalf of the IPSC Freda Hughes thanked Mr. Fitzpatrick for his kind and brave gesture and his ongoing support for Palestine in this country.
[18th June - ICCL Press Release] On the day that Israel announced a [so-called] partial easing of its Gaza land blockade, the plight of the Gaza Strip’s inhabitants topped the bill at the ICCL Human Rights Film Awards.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kirsten Sheridan gave the rights watchdog’s top prize to Gaza: Post Operation Cast Lead, directed by Dearbhla Glynn. This short documentary offers a unique insight into the day-to-day living conditions faced by the Gaza Strip's 1.5 million conflict-stricken inhabitants.
Awarding the prize at Dublin’s Light House Cinema yesterday evening (17 June 2010), Kirsten Sheridan said: “Recent events have brought home the abject misery of the 1.5 million Palestinians forced to live behind the Gaza blockade, and shown the importance Irish people attach to bringing them relief. Dearbhla’s film is an impassioned snapshot of the daily lives of Gazans, and a powerful reminder of the need to end their ongoing suffering.”
IPSC welcomes expulsion of Israeli diplomat but believes ambassador must also go
[15th June] The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) welcomes today's expulsion of an Israeli diplomat by the Irish government and commends Minister Michael Martin for the move, but believes that the ambassador should also be expelled.
According to IPSC spokesperson, Dr Fintan Lane, "This is a long overdue but very welcome development. We commend the minister for taking action in relation to the misuse of forged Irish passports by Israeli assassins in Dubai. We now hope that he takes similar action with regard to the recent kidnapping of Irish citizens by Israeli commandos in international waters and the massacre of humanitarian activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The IPSC believes that Israel should be isolated by the international community. Meaningful sanctions should be enforced until they lift the siege of Gaza and concede the Palestinian right to self-determination. The Israeli ambassador to Ireland should be expelled and diplomatic ties severed with this rogue state.
Smuggled footage of MV Rachel Corrie prior to its hijacking by Israeli forces
[12th June] Here is some of the footage smuggled out of Israel by Irish MV Rachel Corrie passenger and filmmaker Fiona Thompson. The four minutes of footage shows the radio exchanges between the Rachel Corrie's first mate Irishman Derek Graham and the Israeli navy prior to the hijacking of the Rachel Corrie and ends with the approach of several warships
Ms Thompson managed to smuggle several video tapes out of Israel after her kidnap by Israeli commandos in international waters while she was taking part in the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza last weekend. The footage is also available to download here (30mb, wmv)
Last Irish Freedom Flotilla deportee, Al Mahdi Al Harati, arrives home safely
[8th June, 4pm] Today Al Mahdi Al Harati was the final Irish Gaza Freedom Flotilla deportee to arrive home. Mr Al Harati was welcomed by a large contingent of family and friends at Dublin airport earlier this afternoon.
Freda Hughes of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomed his safe return and saluted his bravery: "Al Mahdi, like all of the Freedom Flotilla participants, is deserving of our praise for his courage in attempting to break the illegal siege of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged people there. We are all relieved that he is safely back in Ireland. We hope that his family, who we know were extremely worried about his health, can rest easy now and celebrate his return."
Also today, Gardai forcibly removed around 40 protesters who where peacefully symbolically blockading the Israeli Embassy in Ballsbridge at a protest called by the Irish Anti-War Movement. One elderly man was pushed to the ground and sustained bruises while others where dragged away by the scruffs of their necks.
Irish Rachel Corrie deportees vow to return, call for international inquiry and boycott campaign
[7th June, 9pm] Today family, friends and supporters welcomed home the five Irish MV Rachel Corrie passengers who were this morning deported from Israel. The five – Denis Halliday, Mairead Maguire, Fiona Thompson, Derek Graham and Jenny Graham – were greeted in Dublin airport by cheers and hugs from the assembled crowd who were there to salute their bravery.
Following their safe arrival back on Irish soil, Mr. Halliday, Ms. Maguire and Mr. Graham addressed a press conference hosted by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) in the Central Hotel. Full audio from the press conference is available here.
Al Mahdi Al Harati, will be the final Irish flotilla member to return to Ireland. He will be arriving in Dublin Airport tomorrow at 1.45pm, and there will be a welcoming for him. The IPSC encourages our supporters to go and welcome him home.
IPSC statement refutes Israeli propaganda on 'deal' and other issues
[5th June, 12pm] Today, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign issued a statement refuting various Israeli accusations and propaganda talking points that have been circulating over the past two days.
Irish ship MV Rachel Corrie Hijacked off Gaza, Passengers Kidnapped
[5th June, 12pm] Just before 9am this morning, the Israeli military forcibly seized the Irish humanitarian relief ship, the MV Rachel Corrie which was bound for Gaza carrying 1,00 tonnes of aid and supplies. For the second time in less then a week, Israeli forces stormed and hijacked an unarmed aid ship, kidnapping its passengers and forcing the ship toward Ashdod port in Southern Israel. It is not yet known whether any of the Rachel Corrie's passengers sustained injuries during the attack, but they are believed to be unharmed.
Freda Hughes of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign called for the Irish government to take action: "Earlier this week the Irish Parliament passed a unanimous motion stating that if the Rachel Corrie was not allow safe passage to Gaza, then the Irish Governmnent would take "further diplomatic measures" against Israel. Th Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign hope that the Irish government is as good as its word on this issue and immediately takes diplomatic action against the rogue state of Israel."
IPSC's Fintan Lane speaks of his harrowing experience
[3rd June, 3pm] Speaking from Istanbul, Dr Fintan Lane, of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), spoke of his experiences on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which was attacked by Israeli forces on Monday and his time in Israeli detention. He said he was assaulted in custody, while three other Irish received severe beatings and one – Isam Bin Ali – remains unaccounted for. Dr. Lane is due to return to Ireland tomorrow afternoon where he will address a press conference in the City Centre.
Meanwhile, the Irish ship the MV Rachel Corrie continues en route o Gazaand is currently 400 miles away and is expected to arrive on Saturday. Speaking from the aid carrying ship, Dennis Halliday said: “We want to emphasise that our aim is not provocation but getting our aid cargo into Gaza. We are calling on the UN to inspect the cargo and escort us into Gaza, and to send a UN representative to sail on board before they enter the exclusion zone. We all remain in good spirits, and we want to thank everyone all over the world for all their support.” The boat is traveling at approximately 210 miles a day, and is being captain by Eric Harcis, a Scottish man from Orkney.
Tthe IPSC with the support of ICTU has called a mass demonstration at 2pm on Saturday against the killings and in support of the Rachel Corrie
[2nd June, 10.30pm] The IPSC has learned, with relief, that the remaining Irish Freedom Flotilla prisoners are in the air tonight, en route from Tel Aviv airport to Istanbul, along with all the remaining detainees from the ill fated aid flotilla.Last night, around 120 people were deported via Israel's border with Jordan.
Earlier today returned flotilla crewman Shane Dillon met with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Michael Martin, and then spoke at a press conference in Dublin. He said: "I am of course relieved to be home, but it must not be forgotten that we never should have been kidnapped in the first place. This was an act of piracy by Israel. But worse than what happened to me and others was the killing of our fellow flotilla passengers. But the real evil is the ongoing brutal siege of Gaza which has been in place for three years and is strangling the life out of this tiny but highly populated area".
Sign the Irish pledge to support the Palestinian call for BDS against Israel
The people of Palestine need our support in their struggle for freedom and justice - and we can help by supporting the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
What Palestinian civil society has asked for is simple and in accordance with international law and human rights legislation – it is that Israel ends its military occupation, that it stops discriminating against Palestinians inside Israel and that it respects Palestinian people’s right of return to their own land. The Palestinian people ask for no more than we would expect for ourselves. They demand equality and justice.
We urge you to join us and to join with the Palestinian people’s call for boycott, and sign the pledge below. Please stand in solidarity with justice and with the Palestinian people.
Major victory for pro-Palestine boycott campaign: Dublin City Council passes anti-Veolia motion
The international Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement scored a major victory on Monday 10th May 2010 as Dublin City Council passed a resolution calling on the City Manager not to sign or renew any contracts with French multinational Veolia – the operators of the LUAS who have also tendered for the Metro North project. Veolia operate Israeli rail, bus and waste services in the illegally occupied West Bank, making them complicit in Israel’s contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Commenting on the motion’s passage, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) chairperson Dr David Landy said: “This is a monumental victory for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The passing of this motion represents the elected representatives of a European capital city clearly standing up and saying ‘No’ to companies that collaborate with Israeli human rights abuses against the Palestinian people. It is doubly welcome coming as it does on the same day that Israel was scandalously accepted into the OECD.”
Protest Against Israeli Ammunition Contract In Ennis
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) yesterday, Tuesday 11th May, staged a protest in Ennis calling on the Irish Government not to consider the granting of an Irish Defence Forces contract for bullets to Israel Military Industries.
A number of protestors gathered outside the constituency office of Defence Minister Tony Killeen in Harmony Row yesterday evening. An Israeli government-owned company is reportedly in the running to win the multimillion-euro order to supply the Defence Forces with 10 million bullets.”
Palestinian civil society slams OECD over Israel’s accession
Palestinian civil society represented by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a wide coalition of the largest Palestinian mass organizations and trade unions, issued a strong condemnation of OECD’s decision today to welcome Israel as a member of the organization at its ministerial meeting to take place on May 27-28.
A BNC spokesperson commented, “By accepting Israel, OECD member countries show a blatant complicity with Israeli war crimes, destroying the very foundations of international law. Rewarding Israel entrenches its impunity and dashes any realistic hope for achieving a just peace in the region.”
Children of Palestine remembered at IPSC street event in Dublin today
A large number of Palestine solidarity activists and supporters gathered at the Spire on O'Connell Street in Dublin today to remember the children of Palestine who were killed and injured since the Nakba began in 1948. Children's shoes were laid symbolically on the ground in front of an evocative memorial banner featuring the handprints of children.
AMany passers by joined in remembering the children of Palestine, with large groups of young teenagers, in particular, stopping to chalk the names of the villages displaced during the Nakba on the ground. The support and solidarity of the people of Dublin was tangible. Many tourists also expressed their support and their distress at the plight of children in Palestine and their treatment since the brutal establishment of the apartheid Israeli state.
CRH: Opposition to Israeli apartheid wall dominates AGM of Irish multinational
On Wednesday 5th May, a large number of Palestine solidarity activists staged a demonstration outside the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Irish multinational CRH, while concerned shareholders inside asked serious and pointed questions about the role of the Irish cement company in supplying construction materials being used in the building of Israel’s apartheid Separation Wall and in illegal settlements in Palestine.
Activists from the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and Project Clean Hands dominated the CRH AGM. Supporters of the IPSC and other concerned shareholders made their concerns clear at the meeting. In the course of an hour, the Board of Directors was bombarded by questions from shareholders anxious about CRH's complicity in human rights abuses in occupied Palestine through their 25% shareholding in Mashav Initiative and Development Ltd and their wholly owned subsidiary Nesher Cement Enterprises.
Major new Irish Exposé into Israeli Blood Diamond industry, IPSC calls for reform of Kimberly Process
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) today expressed its shock and dismay at revelations unearthed by Limerick-based researcher Seán Clinton in his recent exposé on the role of Israel in the global diamond industry. Mr. Clinton’s article, published last night on the respected Electronic Intifada website, highlights how the industry deceives the public by playing up benefits accruing to poorer countries through the Kimberly Process – the stated aim of which is to eliminate ‘blood diamonds’ - while simultaneously hiding the fact that Israel, a state that has militarily occupied Palestine for more than 40 years, is the world’s biggest beneficiary of the diamond industry.
Mr. Clinton’s article reveals the hypocrisy and doublespeak that lie at the heart of the Kimberly Process. The article also reveals complicity with Israeli Apartheid at the highest levels of the World Diamond Council, as Israel currently chairs the Kimberly Process, while diamonds account for over 30% of Israel’s total manufacturing exports - worth nearly $20 billion in 2008.
IPSC condemns Irish expenditure on Israeli military equipment
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is reiterating its call on the Irish Department of Defence to end all spending on equipment and armaments manufactured by Israeli firms. This comes in the wake of the further exposure in today's Sunday Tribune of the extent of Irish army spending on Israeli equipment.
According to today's Sunday Tribune, the Irish army has spent almost €14 million in the past five years on equipment made by Israeli manufacturers. One company that has received Irish taxpayers' money is Israeli company Elbit Systems, which has lucrative contracts with the Israeli military and provides surveillance equipment for the notorious apartheid wall in the West Bank. Last September, Norway divested its pension fund investments in Elbit Systems due to ethical concerns over its work on the West Bank separation wall.
New IPSC Campaign Website Calling on CRH to divest from Apartheid Israel - your help is needed!
Irish multinational CRH’s Israeli subsidiary company Mashav own 75% of Israel’s sole cement manufacturer, Nesher Cement Enterprises, who supply approximately 75-90% of all cement sold in Israel. There can be no doubt that Nesher cement is being used in the construction of the illegal West Bank apartheid wall,the illegal colonial settlements, the Jerusalem Light Rail (linking illegally annexed East Jerusalem to some of these illegal settlements) and the apartheid settler-only roads, bridges and tunnels in Palestine. All of these activities are clearly in defiance of many UN Resolutions, The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Court of Justice ruling and provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention. We believe that CRH plc is, through its ownership of Mashav, complicit in the worst elements of Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and the human rights abuses of the Palestinian people.
CRH boast on their website that they adhere “to the highest standards of corporate and social responsibility”. In light of this, we call for CRH to immediately divest from the Mashav Initiative and Development Ltd.
The IPSC have developed a new resource for activists to log the presence of Israeli products in shops around Ireland. The 'Boycott Map of Ireland' will display up-to-date information about the presence of Israeli products in stores in every county of Ireland.
You can download the Boycott Map here (MS Excel file - when opening, please allow macros and/or set macro security to 'low')
However, in order for this tool to be effective, we need your support. At present there is very little information in the map. We need people, when out doing their shopping etc, to log the presence of any Israeli goods they see, what store they are in, what town, county etc. Then you can fill in one of our forms and email it to the IPSC Boycott Officer who will add the information to the Boycott Map.
Click here for full details on the Boycott Map. We look forward to hearing from you all! We look forward to hearing from you all!
IPSC APPEAL: Are you in aband or a solo artist? Would you be interested in doing a fundraiser gig for the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign?
If you are, please contact us at events [at] ipsc.ie - Thanks!
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Who are the IPSC?
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign was set up in late 2001 by a group of established Irish human rights and community activists, academics and journalists who were deeply concerned with the current situation in the Occupied Territories. In partnership with Palestinians now living in Ireland the IPSC was formed to provide a voice for Palestine in Ireland.
We are an independent, non-party political organisation, run by volunteers all committed to a just and sustainable peace in the Middle East.
The IPSC campaigns for justice for the Palestinian people, through raising public awareness about the human rights abuses in the occupied territories, the violations of international law and the historical causes of the injustices to the Palestinians that lie at the heart of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
The IPSC lobbies the Irish government and the EU, campaigns on the streets and urges for a vigorous Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign similar to the one that played a part in ending Apartheid in South Africa. The IPSC also holds public talks with Israeli and Palestinian speakers and various cultural and fundraising events.
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