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URGENT: Please forward this to everyone and beg them to contact the Irish government and Central Bank before Tuesday and demand that they *do not* break international law by funding genocide. The Central Bank is going to renew its deal to sell Israeli war bonds throughout Europe with the tagline "Israel is at war, stand with Israel", on Tuesday, 2nd September 2025. It has already raised about €4.5b for the genocide through our Central Bank. The government is pretending they have to renew them by mentioning EU law and saying that the Central Bank is independent. *Martin and Harris have stated that Israel is committing a genocide.* This means if the Central Bank, which operates under Irish law, renews the deal, *the Central Bank and the Irish government are knowingly breaking Irish law, international law and the EU Charter of Fundamental Human Rights, and so they are knowingly enabling and facilitating genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity*. https:// www.irishlegal.com/articles/legal-academics-call-on-central-bank-to-block-sale-of-israeli-bonds The Joint Oireachtas Finance Committee has also said that the Central Bank *has to comply* with Irish and international law and said the Central Bank governor was wrong when he said it didn't. We all have ONE day to email *and* call them to demand they *do not break Irish and international law* and that they *do not renew the deal* to market and sell Israel genocide bonds. Just because the EU wants to break international law does not mean our Central Bank and the Irish government are allowed to break Irish and international law. *If the EU doesn't like it, let them try to sue us because they won't win.* (Remember, the Irish government was happy to waste over €8m of tax payers fighting the EU on the Apple tax) Micheal Martin: 01-6194000 taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie Simon Harris: 01-6183805 simon.harris@oireachtas.ie Paschal Donohoe: 01-6183689 paschal.donohoe@oireachtas.ie Gabriel Makhlouf, Central Bank Governor: 01-2246000 complaints@centralbank.ie You can also call and email your own TD's
August 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Not at all! It was well-deserved for such a hard achievement
May 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Just checking in to see if you’ve had a chance to talk to your lawyer friend yet?
May 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Thanks Deborah. Just remembered, I also saw this on Friday. I’d like to use fact in my email tomorrow rather then just a vague reference, otherwise I know my td’s will just come back with some version of an “oh no, it is illegal cause we said it is” response

www.thejournal.ie/open-letter-...
Hundreds of Ireland's lawyers sign letter saying government should enact Occupied Territories Bill
The open letter from lawyers on both sides of the border said that the Irish Government must enact the legislation to meet its obligations under international law.
www.thejournal.ie
May 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Is there any more info on the legal advice cause this is the last I’ve heard about it

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biffandfinn.bsky.social Biff and Finn - Proud Paddystinian @biffandfinn.bsky.social · May 21
More proof that Martin is blatantly lying to Irish citizens about the OTB being illegal under Irish and EU law so he can water it down #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm

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7. Is this Bill compatible with EU law? What does recent legal advice state? Until October 2024, successive Irish governments blocked the Occupied Territories Bill, citing concerns that it would breach EU trade rules. This was despite the Bill passing nearly all necessary stages in both houses of the Oireachtas, with both the Dail and the Seanad voting in favour. However, recent legal opinions confirm that Ireland is entitled to ban trade with Israeli settlements under EU law. While trade rules are generally uniform across all EU member states, exceptions can be made for reasons of public morality, public policy, public security, and the protection of human health and life. The two newly published formal legal opinions from Professor Takis Tridimas and Professor Panos Koutrakos, leading experts in EU trade law, affirm the legal basis of the Bill and its compatibility with EU law. They state that Ireland is fully entitled to pass the Occupied Territories Bill and ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements. The legal experts criticised the previous Attorney General's advice, which blocked the Bill, as "erroneous" and "at odds with settled EU case law." Following this landmark judgement, in October 2024, the Irish Government sought updated legal advice from Attorney General Rossa Fanning, which reaffirmed the ICJ's ruling. This is hugely significant, as it has now cleared the way for the Occupied Territories Bill's passage by the Irish government. Several commentators have pointed out that excluding services from the Occupied Territories Bill is not based on legal or constitutional concerns. Attorney General Rossa Fanning's 2024 advice confirmed the Bill's legality. The International Court of Justice opinion is that states have an obligation to end all trade with settlements - that includes both goods and services.
May 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM