'End US Complicity in Israel’s Genocide' protest TODAY at AmCham 4th July Gala Event with Simon Harris

 TOMORROW 4th JULY the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over a number of other solidarity groups, is holding a demonstration at the Clayton Burlington Hotel on Sussex Road.

 

 – 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

 

Campaigners will assemble at 11am outside the Clayton Burlington Hotel on Sussex Road, and will line both sides of 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.

 

Speakers at the rally will include former RTÉ producer Betty Purcell, Conall Ó Dufaigh of Teachers for Palestine, Martin O’Quigley of the IPSC, and Zak Hania, a Palestinian-Irish survivor of the genocide, who recently lost yet more members of his family.

 

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. This is nothing to celebrate.”

 

Ms Lawlor concluded: “Instead of attending this celebratory Gala event, we call upon the Taoiseach to use every means at the Irish government's disposal to stop the genocide and to hold the Israeli state to account - including sanctions on Israel, and ensuring Irish airspace isn't used to transport weapons or military technolohgy to the genoical apartheid state of Israel.”

 

The event is organised by the IPSC, and endorsed by Academics for Palestine, Dublin 4 Gaza, Irish Anti-War Movement, Gaza Action Ireland, Pals for Palestine, Psychologists for Palestine, Teachers for Palestine, and more to be announced.