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January 24, 2019       Share:    

Source: https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/ourview/--899664.html

Ireland Risks Seeming Anti-Semitic with Israeli Settlement Boycott Bill

(Irish Examiner) Editorial - The best that can be said about the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill is that it is a well meaning show of solidarity with the Palestinians living in the West Bank. The worst that can be said about it is that, by targeting the actions of Israel alone, the Bill risks the accusation that Ireland is anti-Semitic. It is already being seen as such in the U.S. What about the occupied territories of Russia (Ukraine, including Crimea, from 2014, also parts of Moldova - 1992 - and Georgia - 2008), Turkey (northern Cyprus from 1974 and parts of Aleppo in Syria since 2016), Morocco (most of the Western Sahara since 1975)? If our legislators are serious about using economic boycott to make a political point, they should broaden the debate to include all of those occupied territories.

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