🧵With our friends in @AmnestyIreland, today we stood outside the Irish parliament as part of the global #UNinvestigateApartheid day of action calling for the Irish government to take the lead in pushing #UNGA to dismantle Israel's system of racist apartheid. 🇮🇪♥️🇵🇸
Participants were demanding that the United Nations investigate Israel for committing the Crime of Apartheid against the #Palestinian people, and take action to end it. (Pictured: Aisling Mickletwhaite, Chair of @ipsc48 & Deirdre Walsh, Youth Activism Officer at @AmnestyIreland)
Even though the Oireachtas doesn't sit on Mondays, we were happy to be joined by a number of elected representatives to say #UNinvestigateApartheid, such as @RBoydBarrett TD from @pb4p
And loads of others were there too, including @merriman27 (Composer & IPSC co-founder), demanding that the Irish government take the lead in pushing for #UNinvestigateApartheid!
In an Open Letter in today’s Irish Times, 32 veterans of the Irish movement against South African apartheid call for Ireland, RTÉ & Sarah McTernan to #BoycottEurovision2019 due to be held in Israel next week, comparing Israel to Apartheid South Africa. irishtimes.com/opinion/letter…
The signatories include renowned Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strikers Mary Manning and Karen Gearon, former Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and Secretary of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) Gary Kilgallen, Rafique Mottiar and Louise Asmal respectively.
Further signatories comprise 10 former members of the IAAM Executive Committee, including co-founder Anthony Coughlan, Sister Cora Richardson and Lalloo Bhagwan.