The Union of Students in Ireland( USI )has actually contacted trainees to sign up with presentations at Leinster House this night in assistance of a movement for Ireland to sign up with South Africa’s case versus Israel at the International Court of Justice.
The presentation, which is co-organised by the USI together with the Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), Palestinian Rights Institute (PRI), Action for Palestine Ireland (AFPI), Mothers versus Genocide, and the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM), will happen at 5.30 pm this night.
Irish star Liam Cunningham is anticipated to recite a poem at the demonstration by the late Palestinian poet, Refaat Alareer, who was eliminated throughout Israeli airstrikes on Gaza last December.
Speaking ahead of the demonstration, USI Vice President for Campaigns, Zaid Al-Barghouthi stated: “We have an ethical responsibility to do whatever we can to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.
“In this context, we see an intervention by Ireland in South Africa’s ICJ case as an action that would bring us closer to that unbiased
“Students have actually been active voices in the calls for a ceasefire, and for sanctions to be put on the State of Israel for releasing a genocide on individuals of Gaza.”
IPSC Vice-Chairperson, Fatin Al Tamimi stated: “We are prompting the Irish federal government to support South Africa’s brave and principled position at the ICJ.
“The Irish individuals stand strongly with the Palestinian individuals, the Irish federal government requires to show the general public’s will.”
The movement from the Social Democrats gets in touch with the Irish federal government to “take its commitments under the genocide convention seriously and support South Africa in its efforts to stop a genocide in Gaza by intervening in the event at the ICJ as a matter of seriousness at the earliest possible chance”.
The movement prices estimate post among the Genocide Convention, which obliges states to “avoid and to penalize” acts of genocide, keeping in mind that Ireland has actually formerly acted upon this commitment by submitting an intervention in assistance of a case required to the ICJ by Ukraine versus Russia in 2022.
Speaking in the Dáil today, Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns stated that the federal government has a “legal responsibility to act to avoid a genocide in Gaza”, addding that the federal government “speak about holding the Israel to account, however has actually stopped working at every chance to do so”.
South Africa provided its initial proof versus Israel at the ICJ previously this month.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar stated in the Dáil the other day that the federal government would wait up until South Africa submits its primary case and after that choose “on the nature of any intervention”.