Photo/Video Opportunity: Demonstators will line street with 30m of red banners, symbolising US President Biden’s non-existent “red line” for Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza.
Press Release, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friday August 23rd
TOMORROW, SATURDAY, 24th August, between 1pm and 2.30pm, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) will hold a demonstration at Barnardo Square on Dame Street (beside City Hall) in Dublin.
Campaigners will assemble at 1.00pm at Barnardo Sq and will line the street with at least 30 metres of red banners in a highly visual protest that will appeal to photographers and videographers alike, to symbolise the non-existent “red line” that US President Biden promised would be crossed if the Israeli state attacked the tent encampments of Rafah where hundreds of thousands of refugees sought shelter. Weeks later, Israel has crossed Biden’s red lines on numerous occasions without any action from the White House.
The IPSC will be:
– calling for an end to Apartheid Israel’s genocidal assault on the people of Gaza;
– calling for the US government to end their funding and facilitation of the ongoing genocide;
– calling for US multinational companies to end their complicity and profiteering from the genocide;
– calling for the Irish government to take concrete action at national, EU and UN levels to hold Israel accountable;
– and calling for an inspection regime to ensure that weapons or military tech are not being transported to Apartheid Israel via Irish airspace
Speakers at the rally will include former RTÉ producer Betty Purcell, Conall Ó Dufaigh of Teachers for Palestine, Harry Browne of Academics for Palestine, and Palestinian visual journalist Eman Mohammed. Music will be provided by rapper and artist Blue Niall and beatboxer and DJ Abood Aladham.
IPSC National Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said: “In March, US President Biden warned of a ‘red line’ if Israel attacked the refugee camps of Rafah. Israel proceeded to bomb the refugee camps, burning dozens of Palestinians alive, and destroyed hospitals and murdered medical staff. Millions face famine, and there are sickening reports of widespread torture in Israeli prisons. It is clear that there never was a ‘red line’.
"The US government continues to fund and facilitate a livestreamed genocide, and US multinational corporations continue to profit from it. Despite Israel crossing many of Biden’s ‘red lines’, the US government continues its support for genocide by providing Israel with the arms and armaments with which they are slaughtering the Palestinian people - and we now know that Irish airspace is being used to transport these materials of death and destruction.
"The US government also engages in farcical political theatre pretending that it wants a ceasefire in Gaza. If the US government really wanted a ceasefire, it could enforce one tomorrow by ending its arming of, and economic and diplomatic support for, the genocidal Israeli state.”
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