Above from left: Fatin Al Tamimi, National Chairperson of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and activists Zaid Albarghouthi, from Palestine, and Dubliner Ciara Margolis

This afternoon.

Merrion Square, Dublin 2.

The Irish launch of a new European Citizens’ Initiative to ban trade with illegal settlements.

If an ECI garners one million signatures from EU citizens over 12 months, the European Commission must consider and debate the petition’s demands.

Via Academics for Palestine:

A European coalition of more than 100 civil society organizations, has launched a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) to stop trade with illegal settlements in occupied territories. Academics for Palestine is a partner of the Irish ECI campaign, along with other 20 Ireland-based social and cultural organisations.

Academics for Palestine calls on its supporters and every EU citizen concerned about human rights, social justice and fair trade to sign the petition.

Even though illegal settlements constitute a war crime under international law, the EU allows trade with them. In the case of Israel’s settlements, the UN Security Council has called on states to render them no assistance, and the European Union has repeatedly declared that they constitute a flagrant violation of international law. Nevertheless, the EU continues to trade with them, which has emboldened their ongoing expansion.

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign chairperson, Ms. Fatin Al Tamimi, said

“Despite the overwhelming support of the Irish people for the Occupied Territories Bill, the Irish government has shamefully refused to enact it. This ECI now gives us a rare and exciting chance to speak directly to the political bureaucrats in Ireland and the EU. We the citizens of Europe can make our collective voice heard to change on this issue. Together we can stop EU trade with, and sustenance for, illegal settlements in occupied territories, including my own country of Palestine”:

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8 thoughts on “Flagged

  1. Duncan Wheeler

    This shameful attempt to hold countries liable for private corporations loss in profits if governments enact legislation that impacts negatively on profits. Holding citizens by way of government liable for huge fines of multiple of millions/ billions to be paid to non civil private entities. For example, if we enact climate legislation that impacts on big oil then we pay big oil. It’s reminiscent of paying 70 billion of euros that we didn’t owe and that the lenders/investors had already written off. The Irish government will be joining up to give our money/country away to these mega chancers.

    1. Kali

      TTIP had the same clauses in it. Say what you want about Trump, but when he pulled out of it, he inadvertently did the citizens of Ireland a huge favour.

  2. eamonn

    It seems to me that the israeli state are somehow allowed to beheave in the most unpleasant manner towards the people of palestine.

  3. Shitferbrains

    Ms Tamimmi regards all of Israel as ” my country of Palestine “, and having failed to shift the Jews by warfare she and others like her now resort to lawfare. Bit like what happens s lot closer to home than the ME.

    1. bisted

      …this has nothing to do with jews…never had…Palestine was always a secular country until turned into a zionist pariah state…

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