TODAY: Stop Funding Genocide! National March for Palestine to take place in Dublin, Sat 19th July

 National March for Palestine to take place in Dublin, TODAY, Saturday 19th July

Protesters call on government to 'Pass the OTB', 'Stop the Central Bank Funding Genocide', and 'Sanction Israel'

Press Release, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, 19th July 2025

TODAY, Saturday 19th July the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by more than 170 Irish civil society groups, is holding a National Demonstration for Palestine to protest the Irish government’s absolute refusal to hold Israel accountable for a genocide in which the Apartheid state has slaughtered more than 58,000 Palestinians. The march will call for an end to the Central Bank of Ireland's role in funding the genocide, for the government to pass the full Occupied Territories Bill incuding goods and services, an end to the use of Irish airspace for transporting weapons, and for the Irish government to enact sanctions to hold Israel accountable.

It will be the sixteenth such national mobilisation since October 2023 - all of which have seen tens of thousands flood Dublin's streets in opposition to Israel's slaughter in Gaza that has seen at least 58,000 people killed, as well as more than 900 in the West Bank.

Protestors will assemble at 1pm at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, and will march from there to Leinster House for a rally outside the Dáil.

Speakers at the rally will include Gaza genocide survivors Marah Nijim and Mohamed Migdad, Dunnes Stores Striker Mary Manning, Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon who is taking a legal case against the Central Bank of Ireland, Bernard Joyce, Director of the Irish Traveller Movement, Conor O'Neill of the Pass the Occupied Territories Bill Campaign. and IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor. 

Speaking ahead of the protest, IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said, "21 months later and Israel's unrelenting genocide continues with at least 58,000 people have been murdered in Gaza, and another 900 in the West Bank. There has been a savage food and aid blockade for months - the only food available distributed by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, spaces that have become sites of slaughter as more than 800 unarmed aid-seekers have been murdered by occupation forces. Between 50 and 100 people are being killed every day.

"And the response of Western powers has been to keep sending guns, bombs, and tech to murder Palestinians. To distract, obfuscate, and feign outrage at comments made by people who are angry and upset by genocide. To arrest, assault, and now criminalise as 'terrorist' peaceful anti-genocide protesters. To try to gaslight us all into thinking this genocide is normal. To do everything they possibly can to continue business as usual with this appalling genocidal state.

"And sadly, Ireland is little different. Simon Harris has called Israel's actions "genocide", "unconscionable" and "unacceptable" — yet the Irish government is barely lifting a finger to end Ireland's deep complicity in this genocide. It won't act to stop the Central Bank processing Israel's genocide bonds, it won't stop the use of Shannon Airport and Irish airspace for transiting weapons to Israel, it won't stop dual-use exports to Israel. It won't ban the state investment fund - that invests our taxes - from investing in companies that profit from Israel's illegal colonial settlements. It won't even commit to ensuring the new Occupied Territories Bill bans both trade and services with illegal Israeli settlements - indeed it seems now to be vacillating on passing it at all. 

"And on top of this we have the appalling spectacle of the state refusing visas to child medical evacuees and Palestinian kids to visit Ireland to play our national sports.

"Join us this Saturday to tell the government that there can be no more business as usual, no more pathetic excuses and hand-wringing statements,  no bowing to US and IBEC pressure. We want sanctions now!"

There will be a disability access point at the Dublin Unitarian Church on St. Stephen's Green. The GAA Palestine Bloc is assembling outside Cassidy's Hotel, and the Trade Union Bloc assembly point is outside Mandate Head Office, both on Cavendish Row, and Community Groups will be assembling outside the Hugh Lane Gallery. There will also be Healthcare Workers and Queer blocs.

ENDS