People Before Profit Cllr Shaun said has said that people power demands a U-turn on St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations with “Genocide sponsor Joe Biden’.
Said Cllr Harkin: “Joe Biden’s hands are soaked in Palestinian blood, including of more than 10,000 children.
“500,000 people in Gaza are already starving and the gross Biden-led decision to stop funding for UN humanitarian aid means a full-blown famine is nearer.
“People across Ireland have made it clear there’s no justification for travelling to the White House to spend St. Patrick’s Day with a Biden administration that’s a full partner with Netanyahu in the genocidal bombing and starvation of Gaza.
“There’s no doubt Foyle SDLP MP Colum Eastwood’s U-turn on joining the White House St. Patrick’s Day celebrations with Biden is the result of people power – but we need clarification on what ‘he SDLP will send a delegation to Washington, DC to engage with senior lawmakers’ means?
“As recently as last April, the political establishment North and South here whitewashed Biden’s sponsorship of the apartheid regime’s escalation of ethnic cleansing and violent assaults on Palestinians by rolling-out a red carpet and letting pints of stout flow.
“We are urging everyone to back our Council motion calling on representatives North and South to boycott Biden and not to meet with any representative of his administration as part of St. Patrick’s Day events.
“It’s time for all parties to U-turn on St. Patrick’s Day celebrations with genocide sponsor Joe Biden.
“The International Court of Justice ruling demands genocide is prevented. All military, financial and diplomatic support for apartheid Israel must be suspended immediately.”
“People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin’s motion to the full Derry City and Strabane District Council meeting 2pm Wednesday 31st January:
“Council agrees apartheid Israel is engaged in a genocide in Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, including over 10,000 children. Many more have been seriously injured and traumatised, almost 2 million people are displaced and face a catastrophic humanitarian crisis with famine conditions.
“Council reiterates its disgust at the level of collective suffering inflicted on the people of Gaza and commends the mass movement that has erupted across Ireland against the violence in recent months.
“Council reaffirms its support for a ceasefire; for the BDS campaign; for expulsion of Israeli Ambassadors from Britain and Ireland; for Israel to be held accountable by international bodies for war crimes and genocide; and for Palestinian self-determination.
“Council agrees Israel’s murderous campaign of collective punishment is highly dependent on the military, financial and political support of Joe Biden and the US government in particular.
“Council agrees the Biden Administration has immorally opposed calls for a humanitarian ceasefire, systematically repeated Israeli war propaganda and that Biden has personally bypassed Congress to transfer arms to Israel during the genocidal war that will cause widespread death and suffering in Gaza.
“Council will write to the Irish Taoiseach and all political parties North and South in Ireland calling on them not to attend St Patrick’s Day celebrations in the White House, nor to meet with President Joe Biden or any representative of his administration as part of the St Patrick’s Day events.
“Council will write to Claire Cronin, US Ambassador to Ireland, British Foreign Secretary, David Cameron and Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, calling for an immediate suspension of all military, financial, and diplomatic support for apartheid Israel and its genocidal war on Palestine.”
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