>Ireland has advanced a bill which will prevent the sale of goods from Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
>The lower house of the Irish parliament – the Dail – yesterday voted in favour of a bill which will ban the purchase of all goods and services from Israel’s West Bank settlements, which are considered illegal under international law. The bill was previously passed through the parliament’s upper house – the Seanad – before proceeding to the lower house and receiving a 78-45 majority in favour, Al Jazeera explained.
>The bill – officially known as the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill – still needs to pass several more stages before being signed into Irish law, but it is expected to progress given its broad base of support from Irish opposition parties.
>Once approved, the law would see fines of up to €250,000 ($284,000) or five years in jail be handed down for those found guilty of importing or selling any goods or services originating in the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem or West Bank settlements, the Jerusalem Post reported.
>Though estimates put the value of settlement-made exports to Ireland at between only $580,000 and $1.1 million annually, the symbolic value of the bill and its potential to influence other European countries to follow suit has been hailed as a victory by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative party, said the bill is a “great victory for the BDS movement” and vowed that “we will seek to pass similar laws in a number of European countries in the near future”.
Pretty fucking based imo, Ireland just went from a 7.0 to a solid 9.5 in how I view them.
Ireland gets oppressed and now thinks helping muslims who are "oppressed" is ethical. Forgetting muslims have the knack of barging in and try to genocide every jew for living.
Camden Edwards
>Ireland gets oppressed and now thinks helping muslims who are "oppressed" is ethical. >Forgetting muslims have the knack of barging in and try to genocide every jew for living.
We don't have anything to do with Israel nor a large Palestinian community or care for them, this is literally the loony left being antisemitic, spiteful and hateful, don't listen to any facebook spastics pretending there's a close bond this is simply pure hatred and I'm sickened at my country for striking out at an oppressed group in this way so blatantly and happily.
>We don't have anything to do with Israel nor a large Palestinian community or care for them, this is literally the loony left being antisemitic, spiteful and hateful, don't listen to any facebook spastics pretending there's a close bond this is simply pure hatred and I'm sickened at my country for striking out at an oppressed group in this way so blatantly and happily.
The "irish" PM is literally a faggot indian, that's all you need to know about this country
Jordan Rogers
What the fuck...as a proud 1/32nd Irish American i’m ashamed by my people’s disgusting anti-Semitism...looks like the mudslime libtards have taken over yurostan after all...
Ryan Gutierrez
He wasn't voted in
Hunter Collins
based af this stop the genocide in palestine death to so called state of israel - the sister of isis and terrorism
