Ireland Leads the Way to Justice for Palestine

It's a very good first step toward holding the Zionist barbarians accountable for their ongoing rape of Palestine.

But Ireland and the EU at large should consider listing the various settler organizations and those that raise funds for them in Europe and the Americas as TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS. These criminal organizations are killing and terrorizing the indigenous Palestinians out of their lands in order to steal the land for more illegal terrorist settlements. 

Zionist terrorism was also how Israel was created in the 1930s and 1940s, with sheer terror targeting Palestinian villages and towns by such notorious Zionist terrorist organizations as Haganah, Stern Gang-Lehi Group, Irgun and others (for more see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_political_violence, or
ask AI: "zionist terror organizations 1940s".

By driving hundreds of thousands of indigenous Palestinians out of their lands and villages, the Zionist terrorists managed to clear enough Palestinian lands on which they created their artificial state of Israel. These refugees ands their descendants continue to live in squalid refugee camps - both inside Palestine in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as outside in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt - because Israel refuses to let them back to their country.

The modus operandi of the Zionists is no different from that of the Burmese junta's persecution of the Rohingas, or how the English persecuted the Irish for centuries, or how the Janjawid Arabs are still persecuting the Sudanese Africans of Darfour. 

The Zionists terrorized Palestine through a coordinated scorched-earth campaign orchestrated by a hypocrite British government that promised Palestine to the Zionists - actually it sold Palestine to wealthy Zionist bankers in exchange for wartime funds - even though it was given (by the League of Nations) a fiduciary mandate over Palestine which was NOT its own to give away.

The Zionist terror campaign aimed at crushing a puny and poorly equipped Palestinian rebellion, and displacing the Palestinian populations from large swaths of the country.
Beginning in the 1920s, the foreign European Zionist militias, armed and directed by British military intelligence, executed systematic attacks that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, the destruction and total erasure of villages, and the displacement of roughly one million people out of their lands. 

Just as they still do, the Zionists coordinated their assaults by first issuing terrifying warnings to the Palestinian villagers and townspeople, prompting these to flee, followed by an invasion of the targeted region by Zionist terror squads which proceeded to burn entire villages and rape and kill those who chose not to leave. To ensure the displaced villagers would never return, the Zionist terror squads deliberately destroyed the basic necessities of life by burning homes, olive groves and fields, poisoning water wells, and looting livestock. This "Israeli independence campaign", culminating in 1948, operated with total impunity, as no Zionist terrorist was ever arrested or prosecuted. When the British realized the magnitude of the horror they were enabling, they became reluctant and began opposing the  Zionist invasion and violence. The Zionists responded by bombing British targets like the King David Hotel that housed the headquarters of the British mandatory authorities or the assassination of the first UN envoy to Palestine, the Swede Count Folke Bernadotte, on September 17, 1948, in Jerusalem. He was killed in an ambush by members of the Stern Gang, a Zionist terrorist group, as his findings and conclusions clearly favored indigenous Palestinian rights against the colonial Zionist terror plans for Palestine.

Nearly one hundred years later, the Zionists continue their rape of Palestine and their ethnic cleansing of the land. Any resistance by the indigenous Palestinians is labeled terrorism, while the rapist Israel continues to claim to be a victim of its own raped victims.

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Ireland to ban goods from Israeli settlements in West Bank by July
Reuters
Tue, May 26, 2026 


Helen McEntee, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland, speaks on the day she attends an EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, Belgium December 15, 2025. REUTERS/Omar Havana

DUBLIN, May 26 (Reuters) - Ireland aims to pass a law curbing goods trade with settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank by mid-July with Israel, some U.S. lawmakers and business ‌groups opposing the move, Foreign Minister Helen McEntee said on Tuesday.

Ireland's government, one of the ‌most outspoken critics of Israel's war in Gaza, first promised to sanction Israeli settlements in October 2024. The legislation has since been ​held up by pressure from opposition politicians who aimed to extend the ban also to services trade, on one side, and international company lobbyists seeking to scrap the bill, on the other.

Sources told Reuters last October that the bill was set to be limited to goods. Prime Minister Micheal Martin confirmed that last week ‌and said widening the scope to ⁠services was neither "implementable" nor "viable."

Limiting the bill to goods only will impact just a handful of products imported from Israeli-occupied territories such as fruit that are worth just ⁠200,000 euros ($234,660) a year, Ireland's Central Statistics Office said.

Business groups warned that the wider category of services could pull foreign multinational companies into unworkable sanctions.

"We have consistently advocated for a peaceful solution... but it's very clear from ​the actions ​taken most recently by the Israeli government, but in ​particular the continued increase in settler violence, ‌the escalation in settler violence in the West Bank, the continued violence in Lebanon, that they have no desire to take this particular road," McEntee told reporters.

Israel's far-right governing coalition has enabled a rapid expansion of settlements, with some ministers openly advocating for the annexation of the West Bank.

Settler violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has surged since the Gaza war began in October 2023.

McEntee said last week ‌she hoped to pass the law in tandem with ​Belgium, the Netherlands and possibly Slovenia, which have also committed to introducing ​bans. Spain has already introduced similar curbs, ​the only European Union member to so far do so.

A group of U.S. ‌lawmakers wrote to Martin last year, warning that ​passing the bill would damage ​U.S.-Irish relations and impact American companies in Ireland.

Ireland is particularly sensitive to pressure from the U.S. as mainly U.S.-owned foreign multinationals are a major part of the economy and employ around ​11% of Irish workers.

Most of the ‌international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law. Israel disputes ​this, citing historical and biblical ties to the area and that they provide strategic ​depth and security.

(Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing Chiara Rodriquez)