Palestinian human rights activist Shawan Jabarin encouraged Irish people to use their connections in the US to ‘push forward’.
Two Palestinian human rights activists have said Ireland should implement sanctions on Israel, arguing that recognising the state of Palestine will not stop the deaths.
Mr Jabarin, who received an alumni award from the University of Galway on Friday, said consequences were needed to prevent violations of international law. She said that the recognition of Palestine “doesn’t fulfil the obligation of Ireland and other third party states to prevent and stop genocide”.“I met the people that negotiated to dissolve the apartheid regime, and I met with the former defence minister, he was one of the negotiators. I asked him the question ‘What makes you change as a racist regime to remove the system?’.
“I used to say when I was in Ireland at that time, ‘the explosion is coming, the occupation is deepening, the apartheid system is there’. But no actions were taken against Israel, like sanctions, like the EU to freeze the association agreement with Israel.” “When we hear what happened in Trinity College, and other universities here that the administration of the universities agreed and accepted the students’ demands to divest from Israeli businesses, this is very important,” Mr Jabarin said.
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