Knesset Speaker Scraps MKs' Mission to Ireland over Boycott Legislation

(Times of Israel) Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on Monday canceled an official Israeli parliamentary delegation to Ireland in response to an Irish bill that seeks to ban the import of goods produced in areas captured by Israel in 1967. "It is not surprising that Ireland is again seeking to harm and boycott Israel," Edelstein said. "We would be happy...to reach a country that wants to cooperate with the entire State of Israel and not only with parts of it, instead of wasting our time on a country that is obsessively seeking ways to hurt it."


2019-01-30 00:00:00

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