Protest TOMORROW at The Dáil, 1.30pm – 3pm

 Press Release, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Tuesday 21st October 2025

A protest, organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, will take place at at The Dáil, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, TOMORROW Wednesday 22 October from 1.30pm – 3pm to demand an end to Central Bank complicity in Israel’s genocide and apartheid. The protest will happen as CBI Governor Gabriel Makhlouf appears before the Joint Committee on Finance in relation to the transfer of Israel Bond prospectus to the CSSF in Luxembourg.

Why? Thanks to massive public pressure, Israel’s genocide bonds were forced out of Ireland. However, the CBI is still the lynchpin for the sale of these bonds in the EU. The CBI transferred the Israel Bond prospectus, on the request of Israel, to the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) in Luxembourg, which approved the prospectus. Under the EU Prospectus Regulation 2017/1129 Ireland remains the “home member state” in the EU for Israel and the CSSF is acting as a “competent authority” of Ireland for the purposes of the Israel Bond prospectus.

The transfer, in violation of international law and with absolute disregard for the recommendation of the Joint Oireachtas Committee Report on Israeli Bonds, enables Israel to raise funds in the EU for actions  which include genocide, apartheid, occupation, collective punishment, interment and forced starvation.

 

IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said: “The Central Bank agreement, nearly two years into the genocide in Gaza, to Israel’s request to transfer the Israel Bond prospectus to the CSSF in Luxembourg was a shameful duplicitous act of complicity in genocide. The intention of the transfer was to ensure continued access to EU markets for apartheid Israel’s fundraising for genocide. Offshoring renewal does not absolve the CBI of responsibility, nor does it absolve the government of responsibility to take immediate action to end the Central Bank’s facilitation of the sale of Israel Bonds.

 

We demand that the Government take all necessary actions to stop the CBI, directly and through transfer, enabling the sale of apartheid Israel’s war bonds which directly fund its crimes against the Palestinian people.”

 

Speakers:

Abubaker Abed, Palestinian journalist and Gaza genocide survivor

Sen. Chris Andrews, participant on Gaza Sumud Flotilla

Naoise Dolan, writer and journalist, participant on the Thousand Madleens Flotilla

Barry Heneghan TD, participant on Thousand Madleens Flotillas.

Miral Khaled Qudaih, Gaza genocide survivor

Sean Marmion, IPSC 

Covid Inquiry hears Seren's story: "School became terrifying". "I was coughed at, sworn at, verbally abused and physically intimidated".

Please watch & share Seren's testimony, given recently to the UK Covid inquiry. She was forced to leave school half way through her A-levels, having become the target of sustained bullying, abuse & intimidation - not just from other students, but from staff & parents too. 

Why? She dared to continue masking to protect her disabled little sister when everyone around her wanted to pretend the pandemic was over. Afterall, we were given official permission not to care about the clinically vulnerable. By continuing to care, Seren defied official government guidance to forcibly infect everyone, including the disabled, elderly and clinically vulnerable. For the crime of following the science, refusing to consent to mass infection & salting the vibes, Seren was ruthlessly, cruelly targeted & punished. Welcome to our post caring era.

Extracts from Seren's testimony👇

"I was the only child masked and became the target for bullying"

"I was coughed at, sworn at, verbally abused and physically intimidated". Not just by other students, but by staff & other parents too

"School became terrifying"

Seren's burden, and that of many like her, is never acknowledged, such as: "The toll of carrying the burden of being the risk to your vulnerable family member, of having to advocate for clean air, having to defend myself for continuing to wear a mask or endure abuse for reminding people of a pandemic they'd rather forget".

"My sister's 13 now & still extremely vulnerable. Outside of my family, who is protecting her now"?

Seren's courage, moral clarity and defiance in the face of such abject adult failure, is inspirational & humbling. As I told her myself, you're the very best of us, Seren 💪💓🌟

TODAY: Two Years of Genocide. National March for Palestine to take place in Dublin

 TODAY, Saturday 4th October the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by more than 175 Irish civil society groups, is holding a National Demonstration for Palestine to mark two years of Apartheid Israel’s genocide in Gaza in which it has slaughtered more than 66,000 Palestinians, and protest the Irish government’s continued refusal to hold the Apartheid state accountable.

It will be the seventeenth 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.

Protestors will assemble at 12.30pm (NOTE EARLIER THAN USUAL TIME) at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, and will march from there to Leinster House for a rally outside the Dáil.  There will be a disability access point outside the back gate of Trinity, at the intersection of D’Olier Street and College Green.

Speakers at the rally will include Gazan writer and academic Yousef Aljamal, genocide survivor Dua'a Ahmed, Flotilla participant Paul Murphy TD, disability rights campaigner Sophia Mulvany, and IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor. With performances from Grooveline, Sexy Tadhg, and Aoife Kelly & Eoghan Scott.Speaking ahead of the protest, IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said, "Two years into this genocide, and Israel's unrelenting genocide continues with at least 66,000 people 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 2,500 unarmed aid-seekers have been murdered by occupation forces. Between 50 and 100 people are still being killed every day - and more than 100 more Palestinians were murdered over the past 24 hours.

"We have also seen the illegal interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, and the detention of hundreds of activists, including many Irish citizens, trying to deliver aid to Gaza.

"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 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 offshoring of the 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 - in fact despite promising the swift implementation of the OTB, we are still waiting.

"Let's make this Saturday, 4th October the biggest Palestine demo in Irish history, and together tell the government that there can be no more business as usual, no more pathetic excuses and hand-wringing statements — we want sanctions now!"