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SENATOR Frances Black (Ind) is set to speak at a public meeting in Ennis next week organised by the Clare branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. This event on Monday, October 14 at 7.30pm in Treacy’s West County Hotel will focus on the “urgent need” for the Irish Government to take action and pass the Occupied Territories Bill, which aims to prohibit trade with illegal Israeli settlements. Independent Senator Frances Black said, “In the six years since I first tabled the Occupied Territories Bill, the situation in Palestine has rapidly deteriorated. While the world is focused on the horrific, genocidal war in Gaza, across the West Bank we’re also seeing one of the biggest land grabs in decades – more homes destroyed, families displaced, settlements built. How can we repeatedly condemn this as illegal but continue to trade in the goods produced? It’s clear hypocrisy and it must stop.” The meeting will also feature Éamonn Meehan, Chair of Sadaka-the Ireland …

THE Clare branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will have a public meeting next Tuesday with guest speaker Smadar Lavie. Ms Lavie is from Israel and is an anthropologist, professor and author whose mother’s family are Jewish Arabs from Yemen, while her fahter’s people are Jews from Lithuania. She is an ardent activist against racism towards Palestinians and Jews of Arab descent in Israel. Based at the University of California Berkeley, she has written or co-authored four books. Speaking in advance of her visit to Clare, Ms Lavie said that Israeli society is quite fractured between Jews of European descent, called Ashkenazi Jews, and Jews of Middle Eastern descent, or Mizrahi Jews. “Fifty per cent of the population are Jews from the Muslim and Arab world, from the margin of the Ottoman Empire, like Bulgaria or Turkey or the former Yugoslavia. Only 30% are Jews from Europe. However there are less than one per cent women professors who are of Mizrahi …