National Demonstration for Palestine to take place in Dublin TODAY Saturday 13 January
March part of a global day of action calling for an end to Israel’s genocidal war
Press Release, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friday 12 January 2024, 4.45pm
Tomorrow, SATURDAY 13 JANUARY, there will be a National Demonstration for Palestine taking place in Dublin, organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and supported by over 70 Irish civil society groups (full list below*). In what looks set to be the biggest Irish protest for Palestine in history, people will gather at 1pm at The Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, and march to the Department of Foreign Affairs on St. Stephen’s Green.
The march is happening as part of global day of action calling for an end to Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza, and comes against the backdrop of the ICJ hearings on South Africa’s genocide filing against Israel.
Speakers on the day will include Senator Frances Black, Palestinian scholar Rania Muhareb, legendary social justice activist Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey, retired pro-boxer Tyrone McKenna, ICTU President Justin McCamphill, Palestinian activist Walaa Ajjawi, and IPSC Chairperson Zoe Lawlor.
Speaking ahead of the march, Zoe Lawlor, IPSC Chairperson said: “This march - endorsed by scores of Irish civil society organisations from trade unions to community groups - has been called as part of the Global Day of Action for Gaza, and we will make this the biggest Palestine solidarity demonstration in Irish history! We encourage everyone who has protested with us before, and everyone who hasn’t but is silently outraged to come to Dublin and march to show your anger and your grief – let’s make our demands for action from the Irish government unignorable! Let’s raise our collective voice to demand an immediate end to Israel’s genocidal war, an end to Israel’s regime of apartheid, and to call for sanctions on Israel now, and freedom and justice for the Palestinian people!”
IPSC Vice Chair Fatin Al Tamimi, whose family members remain trapped in Gaza, said: “The live-streamed genocide that is being allowed to happen in Gaza is horrendous beyond imagination, and yet the Irish government won’t act to punish Israel – not a single sanction, not a single change in foreign policy, just words, words and more yet meaningless words. It won’t join South Africa’s ICJ genocide filing, call for Israel to be prosecuted under the genocide convention or even name Israel’s system of oppression as ‘Apartheid’. The people of Ireland, not least Palestinian-Irish citizens like myself, demand so much better. I urge everyone who can to join our march this Saturday to make our voices heard. No more business as usual with the genocidal apartheid state of Israel!”
Notes for Editors
* In addition to the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the full list of organisations that have endorsed the march are:
Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Union of Students in Ireland, Le Cheile - Diversity Not Division, Jews for Palestine - Ireland, Academics for Palestine, Adult Education Tutors for Palestine, Afri - Action from Ireland, Bloody Sunday Trust, Bray & District Council of Trade Unions, Cairde Palestine, Centre for Global Education, Comhlámh, Comhlámh Justice for Palestine, Community Action Tenants Union - CATU, Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Cross-Cultural Conversations, Dublin Council of Trade Unions, East Wall Here for All, Ecojustice Ireland, Gaza Action Ireland, Ireland Palestine Mental Health Network, Irish Anti-War Movement, Irish Artists for Palestine, Irish Football Fans Against Israeli Apartheid, Irish National Teachers' Organisation, Irish School Student's Union, Irish Social Workers and Social Care Workers for Palestine, Irish Sport for Palestine, Irish Traveller Movement, Lawyers Against Racism, Mothers Against Genocide, Mullingar 4 All, National Women's Council of Ireland, Palestinian Rights Institute, PalFest Ireland, Peace and Neutrality Alliance, Phibsboro for All, Psychologists for Palestine, Sadaka - The Ireland-Palestine Alliance, Shannonwatch, Socialist Lawyers Association of Ireland, Teachers' Union of Ireland, TCD BDS Campaign, TCD Students' Union, Teachers for Palestine, The People's Movement, Trade Union Friends of Palestine, UCD Students' Union, SIPTU, Unite the Union, Communication Workers Union, Friends of the Earth Ireland, Independent Workers' Union, Financial Justice Ireland, Praxis Artist Union, TUD Students' Union, Dublin 4 Gaza, Dublin Bay North for All, Balbriggan Palestine Solidarity, Access for All Ireland, Trademark Belfast, Left Bloc, Irish Lawyers for Palestine, Muslim Sisters of Eire, Mandate Trade Union, Kairos Ireland, Greystones Against Genocide, Dún Laoghaire for Palestine, Peadar Brown's Bar, Irish Pakistani Community Network, Kashmir Peace and Solidarity Council Ireland, Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, Energy Services Union, and NCAD Students' Union.
ENDS
For advance comment, interview or promo [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
Zoe Lawlor, IPSC Chair: 087 950 4397
Fatin Al Tamimi, IPSC Vice Chair: 086 026 7721
Betty Purcell, IPSC Media Team: 087 259 6003
For liaison with spokespeople/speakers on the day [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
Betty Purcell, IPSC Media Team: 087 259 6003
Karen Moyhinan, IPSC Media Team: 085 754 7874
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