Great Irish Famine historians issue St. Patrick’s Day statement on Gaza
“On this St. Patrick’s Day in an election year, we are appealing to the conscience of Irish America. We ask Irish Americans in their capacity as citizens, as members of cultural and benevolent societies, as political leaders, to use their influence to avert a Famine as severe as the one faced by their ancestors. To do this it is necessary that the United States ceases arming Israel; that it puts pressure on Israel to halt its military action and lifts its blockade on Gaza; that it refrains from using its veto at the UN security council in relation to Palestine; that it restores funding to UNRWA, the agency best-equipped to provide relief; that it acts as an honest broker to bring about an agreed political settlement between Israel and Palestine”.
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Palestinian higher education institutions published a :
Unified Call for Justice and Freedom in Palestine
29 November 2023
- Call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, guaranteed by the UN
- Urge immediate entry into Gaza of sufficient amounts of life-saving humanitarian needs (incl. water, food, fuel, medicine), equitably distributed throughout the whole territory of Gaza Strip.
- Demand UN protection for the 2.3 million Palestinian civilians trapped under siege in Gaza
- Issue clear positions rejecting any ethnic cleansing
- To support in dismantling the settler colonial and apartheid system and to achieve and a just, comprehensive, and lasting peace.
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