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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 …
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