Duncan Smith
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and we need to invoke boycotts and sanctions where we can.
We saw one already where Ireland boycotted the Eurovision,
And now with this draw in the Nations League, we have an opportunity to show yet again, and this is majority backing of Irish football fans and the Irish public, that we do not accept Israel into the same tournaments as us, UEFA tournaments.
They shouldn't be taking part whilst they're committing genocide, while they're expanding illegal settlements in the West Bank, and while they continue to push up and carry out ethnic cleansing in Lebanon.
that they need to be turfed out and that we need to make a stand on it.
So, you know, the FAI's kind of workaround or whatever in terms of a neutral venue, it's answering a question that people weren't asking.
It's not about not having the Israelis on Irish soil.
It's about not having the match at all and hammering a message home that Israel should not be accepted into, you know, proper sporting tournaments, cultural events and the international community whilst they're carrying out such heinous crimes.
At the moment, I don't think so.
But I think, you know, every journey begins with small steps.
If we look at what's happening tomorrow in the Dáil, in terms of the Occupied Territories Bill, we know that other states in Europe will be bringing forward similar pieces of legislation.
Now, we're not happy with that legislation.
That doesn't include services.
But if we just set that aside for a moment...
We are going to have legislation from the Dutch and from the Belgians who are going to be bringing forward legislation next couple of weeks as well.
That'll be three states in this overall area sanctioning Israel at least some small level.
That would have been unthinkable maybe a year ago, certainly seven, eight years ago when Frances Black started her bill.
So Ireland is slowly building up alliances of support to hold Israel to account.
And we can do this.
We did it in the Eurovision as well.
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