Éirígí And The 1916 Societies March For Palestine
Yesterday, Saturday the 13th of January, Éirígí activists marched with the 1916 Societies at the National Demonstration for Palestine in Dublin City Centre. The demonstration was organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Once again, the people of Ireland came out in huge numbers to express their solidarity with the people of Palestine. Tens of thousands marched through the streets of the capital, in what has been described as the biggest ever protest for Palestine in Ireland.
Éirígí activists and members of the 1916 Societies behind our joint banner calling for the immediate expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to the Twenty-Six Counties.
Éirígí activists and members of the 1916 Societies marched behind a joint banner calling for the immediate expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to the Twenty-Six Counties.
The call to expel the ambassador comes as the savagery of the Apartheid state of Israel during their latest assault on Gaza has claimed the lives of nearly 30,000 men, women and children, along with the displacement of around TWO MILLION others.
‘Expel The Israeli Ambassador Now’ banner.
Irish republicans, and indeed the vast majority of the Irish population, have long supported the Palestinian people in their struggle for self-determination - seeing in their struggle an echo of our own long fight for freedom.
The people of Palestine have been living under a brutal, settler-based colonial occupation for over 75 years now. That occupation has led to some of the most horrific crimes being perpetrated against them by the Apartheid state of Israel.
The new joint Éirígí and 1916 Societies leaflet handed out on the day.
We in Ireland know all too well about the realities of such an occupation. What is witnessed in Palestine on a daily basis is akin to the barbarity and worst atrocities of the British Empire in Ireland at any stage of our history.
As Irish Republicans, we oppose the continued occupation of the northeastern part of our country. The centuries-long occupation of all, or part, of Ireland has been underpinned by a system of oppression, discrimination and brutality.
The occupation of Palestine is underpinned by the same system, and those who believe in peace, justice and democracy must challenge that system wherever we can!