The Sinn Féin President said she had “listened with horror” to Trump’s calls for Palestinians to be displaced from the territory.
The Sinn Féin President said she had “listened with horror” to Trump’s calls for Palestinians to be displaced from the territory.resisted calls from other left-wing parties to boycott the event
However, the Sinn Féin President said she had “listened with horror” to Trump’s calls for Palestinians to be displaced from the territory.“Such an approach is a fundamental breach of international law, is deeply destabilising in the Middle East and a dangerous departure from the UN position of peace and security for both Palestinians and Israelis,” she said.
As Leader of Sinn Féin I have made the decision not to attend the event in the White House this year as a principled stance against the threat of mass expulsion of the Palestinian people from Gaza.“But there is an onus on us to speak honestly,” she said. “And to act when we believe a US administration is wrong - catastrophically so in the case of Palestine.
"I've thought deeply about this in recent days and listened to many voices inside and outside of Sinn Féin."Deputy McDonald did not call on Taoiseach Micheál Martin to boycott the event, but instead urged him to"reflect the view of the Irish people in relation to Palestine".Landlords say they're too poor to retrofit tenants' homes
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