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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Parliamentary Question submission re arms tenders from Israel

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Book AV Room for parliamentary briefing by Mahmoud Nawaja of the BDS Movement

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Padráig Mac Lochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[EU Affairs] Request to sign Parliamentarians' Letter calling for Review of EU-Israel Association Agreement

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Emailed all Members asking to sign on to the letter. Text of letter here: https://www.eccpalestine.org/over-250-parliamentarians-from-17-eu-countries-urge-the-suspension-of-the-eu-association-agreement-with-israel/'} {'name': 'Email All MEPs', 'role': 'Emailed all MEPs asking to sign on to the letter. Text of letter here: https://www.eccpalestine.org/over-250-parliamentarians-from-17-eu-countries-urge-the-suspension-of-the-eu-association-agreement-with-israel/'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

May–August

[EU Affairs] Letter regarding Enforcing EU law at the Gymnich meeting in Warsaw

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

May–August

[EU Affairs] Email ahead of EU FAC Meeting: EU-Israel Association Agreement must be suspended

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

May–August

[Finance] Campaign to end the regualtion of Israel Bonds by the Central Bank of Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': "Set up mass mailers for the general public: \n\nTo email TDs in support of Sinn Féin's Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025\n\nTo email TDs in support of the Social Democrats' Emergency Motion calling for an end to the Central Bank of Ireland’s facilitation of Israel Bonds"} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Duncan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Letter to Minister for Foreign Affairs asking for stronger measures to end Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine and genocide in Gaza

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

September–December

[Trade] Campaign callin on Irish Government to Enact the Occupied Territories Bil

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Email to TDs to ask them to support the motion and the enactment of the OTB'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Meetings with Saleh Hijazi

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Campaign calling for Ireland to joinf South Africa's ICJ Filing

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'See https://www.ipsc.ie/action-item/genocide for sample text'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Campaign calling for Senators to support CEG Motion on Gaza

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Senators', 'role': 'Email to senators to ask them to support the CEG Motion on Gaza'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Meeting with Tala Nasir

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Padráig Mac Lochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Campaign calling for Irish government action to stop Israeli assault on Rafah

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Model email text here: https://www.ipsc.ie/action-item/rafah'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Campaign in support of the Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Senators', 'role': ''}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Campaign for Ireland to support the Palestinian Motion at the UN

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Visit of Palestinian Human Rights Defender Salah Hammouri

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Padráig Mac Lochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gino Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[EU Affairs] Letter to Minister for Foreign Affairs re: concrete measures to end Israeli human righst abuses needed at EU Foreign Meeting

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Campaign calling for Irish action to hold Israel accountable for its attacks on Palestinians

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Campaign calling for Irish government to support the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Meeting with An Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Sonja Hyland', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Suggested Parliamentary Questions regarding Israel's war on Gaza

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Suggested amendment to motion regarding Israel's war on Gaza

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Request meeting with Omar Barghouti

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] End Israel's Genocide in Gaza campaign

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Email to all TDs requesting action'} {'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Email to all TDs to join a hand-in of a petition to government buildings'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Campaign calling for action to stop deporation of HRD Salah Hammouri by Israel

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Requests to meet with Shawan Jabarin, Director of Al Haq human rights organisation

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Emer Higgins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Ward', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Seán Haughey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Meeting on European Citizens' Initiative and Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Briefing: Israel, Apartheid and International Law - Amnesty's Devastating New Report

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Briefing document sent to all members of the Oireachtas - Link: https://www.ipsc.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Israels-Apartheid-Amnestys-Landmark-Report-IPSC-Feb-2022.pdf'} {'name': 'Email All MEPs', 'role': 'Briefing document sent to all Irish MEPs - Link: https://www.ipsc.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Israels-Apartheid-Amnestys-Landmark-Report-IPSC-Feb-2022.pdf'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Briefing: Israel is guilty of Apartheid says UN Palestine expert Michael Lynk

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Briefing emailed to members: https://www.ipsc.ie/apartheid/israel-is-guilty-of-apartheid-and-annexation-says-uns-palestine-special-rapporteur-michael-lynk'} {'name': 'Email All MEPs', 'role': 'Briefing emailed to members: https://www.ipsc.ie/apartheid/israel-is-guilty-of-apartheid-and-annexation-says-uns-palestine-special-rapporteur-michael-lynk'}

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Invitation to Inter-Parliamentary Task Force meeting: Building an International Response to Apartheid

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Padráig Mac Lochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Gino Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Patrick Costello', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

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