PBP’s Richard Boyd Barrett condemns ‘deranged’ Trump plan for ethnic cleansing of Gaza
Padraig Conlon 05 Feb 2025
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett has said he condemns ‘deranged’ Donald Trump’s plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
“Trump’s overnight announcement of plans to occupy Gaza is utterly deranged and is an open threat to commit ethnic cleansing,” Deputy Boyd Barrett said.
“Any questions people may have had about Trump’s plans for Gaza and Palestine have been answered.
“He is clearly intent on doubling down on the unspeakable horrors already enabled by Biden.
“Ireland must make clear our total opposition to what the US is planning, but we have seen how the new government has already bent the knee to the US by dropping the Occupied Territories Bill.
“We can now expect senior government ministers to further debase themselves with a public show of subservience to the Trump regime on St Patrick’s Day.
“Irish people will be nauseated by the grotesque spectacle.
“We must not bend the knee to Trump’s lethal agenda.
“Now more than ever we need to impose sanctions on Israel for their genocide in Gaza and we must move immediately to end the use of Shannon airport by the US military”.
Deputy Paul Murphy said no government or opposition politician should visit Trump on St Patrick’s Day
“No Irish politician should go to Washington to meet Donald Trump or his administration on St Patrick’s Day,” he said.
“To do so would be to provide political cover to a US regime that is intent on inflicting even more barbaric treatment on the 2 million people of Gaza.
“We make this call to the opposition parties as well as to the government.
“We all have a moral and political responsibility to make a stand against US violence, against ethnic cleansing and to stand with the people of Gaza”.