A protest, organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, will take place at the Central Bank of Ireland on North Wall Quay, tomorrow, Tuesday 9th December, from 12.30pm to 2pm.
Speakers at the CBI: Richard Boyd Barrett TD, Sen Alice-Mary Higggins, Ghada Ashour, genocide survivor from Gaza, Katie Martin, AFRI, Raymond Deane, Co-founder IPSC, Duncan Smith TD, Betty Purcell IPSC
Why? Faced with massive opposition to its complicity in genocide, the CBI, on the request of Israel, transferred the Israel Bond prospectus to CSSF (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier) in Luxembourg at some time prior to 1 September. This transfer, made at the “sole and absolute discretion” of the CBI, off-shored approval... but not complicity. Ireland remains the “home member state” for the bonds with CSSF acting as a “competent authority” of Ireland for this year.
In Dublin and Luxembourg , on UN Day of Genocide Remembrance and Prevention, protests will be held at the CBI and the CSSF, joint facilitators of the sale of Israeli genocide-funding bonds, to demand end to complicity in genocide, apartheid, and occupation by these financial institutions. We call on the CBI and CSSF to end their complicity in genocide, to stop violating international law and to immediately end Israel’s impunity and ability to sell its bonds in the EU.
IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said: “The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign condemns the duplicitous treacherous attempt by the Central Bank of Ireland to continue to enable Israel to fundraise for genocide, apartheid, and occupation in Europe by transferring them to the CSSF in Luxembourg. We applaud the solidarity movement in Luxembourg for their strong and immediate opposition to the CSSF’s approval of the bonds. We stand, in Ireland and in Luxembourg, united in total opposition to complicity in genocide.
As Omar Barghouti, founder of the BDS movement, has said: Palestinians are not begging for charity, but seeking meaningful effective solidarity. Above all Palestinians are demanding an end to complicity – they are demanding that we do no harm. There is no more egregious harm than aiding the funding of genocide. The CBI and the CSSF must stop facilitating the sale of apartheid Israel’s bonds.
Jill Manchester, Comite Paix Juste Board Member said: “On Genocide Remembrance Day, we as civil society in Luxembourg and in Ireland, protest our states’ failure to lvie up to their moral and legal duty to take all necessary measures to prevent genocide. Instead, our states and their financial bodies, the CSSF and the CBI, continue to fuel continued Israeli impunity. In Luxembourg and in Ireland, we are demanding an end to complicity in the funding of genocide, apartheid, and occupation.”
Duncan Smith TD, Labour Party said: “The Occupying Power (Securities and Handling of Settlement Goods) Bill 2025 is fundamentally about protecting workers who do not want to handle goods from the Occupied Territories. This country has a proud tradition of standing up to injustice and I want to ensure that those workers are protected”.
The bill, which is currently before Dail Eireann second stage, provides that the Central Bank shall not approve a prospectus for securities issued by or on behalf of a state that is an occupying power.
