Cobh native Gemma Hogan describes days in detention after joining a non-violent solidarity project in the West Bank
Cobh native Gemma Hogan spent several days on the floor of an Israeli prison, just days after fellow townsman Paddy O’Donovan
“He just assumed that I was Christian,” said Gemma Hogan as she recounted, from the calm of a park bench in the middle of her native Cobh, her experience of being interrogated by the Israeli Defence Forces.
“He was saying to me, ‘I will understand.’ And I asked, ‘Okay, so you know what, exactly?’ He asked when I’d last been to Paris, and I said, ‘A couple of years ago,’ so he said, ‘Did you see? Did you see all the hijabs?’