{"id":363910,"date":"2025-08-22T06:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363910\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T06:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:04:13","slug":"sinn-fein-accused-of-hypocrisy-over-ni-free-trade-deal-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363910\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinn Fein accused of \u2018hypocrisy\u2019 over NI free trade deal with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Economy Minister Archibald says her hands are tied by agreements that<\/p>\n<p>Government signs\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smoke rises following an Israeli military strike in the Gaza Strip yesterday. Photo: AP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3d7ccef8-a741-40eb-819b-fdc8742d925b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Smoke rises following an Israeli military strike in the Gaza Strip yesterday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sinn Fein has been accused of \u201chypocrisy\u201d as it pushes for the Occupied Territories Bill to be enacted in the Republic, while the Economy Department in Northern Ireland \u2014 headed by one of its ministers \u2014 talks of a free trade agreement with Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It comes as an academic specialising in law warned the Westminster Government and, by extension, Northern Ireland would be \u201cviolating international law\u201d if they create an agreement which includes goods made or produced in occupied territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Minister Archibald says her hands are tied by agreements that Government signs Smoke rises following an Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[28985,30996,21111,22305,2194,837,1144,1814,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-363910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-caoimhe-archibald","9":"tag-department-for-the-economy","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-garrett-hargan","12":"tag-gaza","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-palestine","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115070911498849085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}