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Up to 1,000 people are expected to march to the US Consulate in Belfast on Saturday in order to “send a clear message” about Ireland’s support for Palestinians and to oppose President Donald Trump’s stance on Gaza.

The march is being organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), and will see participants gather at Queen’s University before making their way to the consulate at Danesfort Park in the Stranmillis Road area.

The event follows similar marches to the consulate in February and September of last year.

Posters for the rally are titled ‘Trump, hands off Gaza’, and in a post to social media promoting the event, an IPSC spokesperson said it comes on the back of President Trump “calling for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza”, and Israel “continuing its genocide in Palestine”.

Mr Trump has said he wants the United States to “take over” Gaza and said millions of displaced Palestinians would have no right to return to the occupied territory under his plan, which has been criticised by figures including Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

The US President has also faced further criticism this week after sharing a bizarre A.I video on social media showing a vision of a future Gaza Strip with skyscrapers and golden statues of himself.

Over 60,000 Palestinians are reported to have been killed since Israel launched its invasion of Gaza in October 2023.

Announcing Saturday’s march, an IPSC spokesperson said: “Join us as we March on the US Consulate in Belfast and send a clear message that Ireland stands with Palestine.”
At last September’s march, participants left white flowers and children’s schoolbags at the gates of the consulate to represent the children killed by Israel in Gaza.

The IPSC is also calling on all Irish politicians to snub traditional St Patrick’s Day celebrations at the White House in Washington D.C.

The group said political reps from both sides of the border should avoid meeting any U.S president “while the United States remains Israel’s primary supplier of weapons, tech, intel, finance and diplomatic cover”.

Although no official invites have been sent for this year, Irish politicians attend the White House annually to mark St Patrick’s Day.

Both Sinn Féin and the SDLP have said they will not attend this year’s gathering due to President Trump’s Gaza stance.

The DUP has said Stormont deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly will attend, while UUP leader Mike Nesbitt also confirmed he would be at the Washington gathering on March 17.

by saoirsedonciaran

13 comments

  1. The march is tomorrow Saturday 1st March at 1pm leaving Queen’s University Belfast on University road and marching to the US consulate to reject US calls of mass ethnic cleansing

  2. You know you don’t have to always pick a side? You can call both sides ball bags? I feel sorry for them women and children that have died in Gaza, but as to go as far to support them in where I draw the line. They’re no better. It’s also funny watching all the people with LGBT flags supporting them also, they’d kill you for that. Nothing but a bunch of social justice warriors virtue signalling. Fuck Isreal also.

    Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67629181

  3. Irrespective of your viewpoint of this conflict, because I’m tired of being the only yid with the kishkas to stand up against the tide of this.

    Practically speaking, does anyone else have any ideas on how to handle the situation? I know the Egyptians have an idea, so do the Jordanians. If Ireland as a nation is opposed to this, do they have a plan?

  5. You do realise that in any state that is run by your beloved Hamas most of you lot would be imprisoned, executed or subject to extreme misogyny.

  6. Good. This is necessary. Israel is a genocidal apartheid state. It needs to be stopped

  8. Why does the genocide of Ukrainians not attract the same passion as Palestinians?

    Ukraine, the dead are in the hundreds of thousands. Thousands of children abducted and taken to Russia, taught to hate their country and their people. An entirely unprovoked attack by an aggressive neighbour and a blatant attempt to eradicate not only a people, but also their history, culture, identity and right to exist.

    I haven’t noticed a lot of activity from QUB students et al on supporting Ukraine. Why so passionate for one people and not another?

  12. The left hate racism, misogyny, xenophobia, homophobia and state religious control but holy fuck do they love Gaza/Palestine.

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