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