TODAY, Saturday 29th November the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by more than 170 Irish civil society groups, is holding a National Demonstration for Palestine to International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and call for an Irish government action to end Apartheid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has seen more than slaughtered at least 70,000 Palestinians.
It will be the eighteenth 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 1pm 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 genocide survivor Miral Khaled Qudaih, Richard Boyd Barrett TD, actor and activist Liam Cunningham, IPSC Vice-Chair Fatin Al-Tamimi, and Noreldaim Ahmedkagho of the Ireland Sudan Solidarity Collective. There will be a poetry reading from genocide survivor Nour Hania, and performances from Aoife Scott & Andy Meaney.
Speaking ahead of the protest, IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said, "There is no ceasefire in Gaza. Amnesty this week stated that 'Israel’s genocide is not over', and the Max Planck Institute has found that the violent death toll in Gaza in likely more than 100,000. All while Israeli Ministers cheer on the execution of unarmed Palestinians in the West Bank. This is why we stay on the streets and demand action from our government.
"Due to the global pressure of the mass movement for Palestine, which has seen some states begin to impose sanctions, limited as they are, the US was forced to pressure Israel into stopping, at least temporarily, its campaign of hourly mass killing. However the so-called 'ceasefire' is a fiction, and Israel has violated it at least 400 times since October 10, killing more than 300 people and injuring 700 more. Aid is still highly restricted and controlled by Israel, Gaza remains in ruins, and winter is closing in. Meanwhile Israel is busy bombing Lebanon again, while the UNSC just voted to approve the colonial Trump-Netanyahu plan for international troops to oversee the illegal occupation and continued 'slow genocide' in Gaza.
"The collective pressure from the global Palestine movement has brought us this far - and now is not the time to rest, it's the time to increase the pressure. It's imperative that we hit the streets in large numbers once again to keep piling the pressure on the Irish government which is still refusing to do even the bare minimum and pass the Occupied Territories Bill. We've seen victories thanks to our collective movement in Ireland - but we demand so, so, much more!
"We need to bring people’s rage to the government’s doorstep – no more pathetic excuses, no more hiding behind legalese, no more empty words: we want sanctions on Israel now!"
