Newry and Crossmaglen to Hold Palestine Solidarity Rallies

The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign encouraging supporters to join rallies in Newry and Crossmaglen to be held on the 29th of November at 6pm. These rallies will coincide with the the long practiced International Day of Solidarity for Palestine which occurs on November 29th annually.

The Newry Rally will be held by Dunnes Car Park, and the Crossmaglen Rally will be held in O’Fiaich Square.

The IPSC ahead of these rallies express the following: “Carnage continues unabated in Gaza, alongside spasms of settler violence and repression in the West Bank. The IDF bombs hospitals, schools, homes with impunity. Genocidal rhetoric and forced displacement of people has been accepted as the norm as tens of thousands have been killed along with many more wounded and forced to leave their homes questioning if they can ever return.

These disgusting actions are provoking a solidarity movement across the world through which Ireland plays a pivotal part as the foremost nation in Europe in its solidarity with the Palestinian people. Our government is one of the only who will call for a Ceasefire rather than clearly inhumane so-called “humanitarian pauses”. Still we must pressure the Irish government to further isolate Israel and its supporters as it still pursues its genocidal campaign. We must expel the Israeli ambassador, who regularly pushes genocide apologia, as a powerful rebuke. We must implement the occupied territories bill to put Israel under economic sanction, alongside a invigorated BDS movement. We must prevent the USA from using Shannon Airport as a checkpoint for moving its weapons of war abroad. We also call on the British government to stop the use of Aldergrove airport for the same, Israel cannot be supported militarily to commit Genocide.

We call on the people of Newry and Crossmaglen to come out and show their support for the Palestinians and rebuke the Western powers who still support Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’. Cracks in many countries are beginning to show now as people wake up to what is actually being inflicted on the Palestinian people and this is why we need to keep the pressure on.”

ENDS