A pro-Palestine group is calling on the Central Bank to stop regulating Israeli bonds.
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has said the bonds are funding a genocide in Gaza and it will protest the meeting of the Central Bank Commission today.
Since Brexit, the CBI is the only regulator of the bonds in the EU, which have been sold for more than $4 billion since the October 7th attacks.
IPSC spokesperson Helen Mahony said we should have no business with these bonds.
“This is deep and reprehensible complicity in genocide,” she said.
“It's not just not doing the right thing, it’s actually actively aiding and abetting Israel in raising funds for genocide, so it really does have to be ended.”
The national flag of Ireland (the tricolour), Palestine flag, EU Flag and Ukraine flag are flown side-by-side at Leinster House Dublin today. 28/05/2024 Pic Stephen Collins/Collins PhotosMs Mahony rejected claims from the bank that it must regulate the bonds.
“There is no way that any EU prospectus regulation compels the Central Bank of Ireland to be complicit in genocide,” she said.
“There's no way that a regulation compels any central bank to regulate bonds that are complicit in crimes against humanity.”
Israel's President Isaac Herzog has stated the bonds have a “crucial role during this time of conflict and war”.
Thousands of people taking part in a National March for Palestine in Dublin. 18/5/2024 Photo: Leah Farrell/ © RollingNews.ie
