Shatter likens OTB to laws seen ‘in 1930s Germany’ at committee hearing [Ireland’s Occupied Territories Bill]

RTÉ News ^ | Wednesday, 16 Jul 2025 07:15 | Joe Mag Raollaigh, Political Coverage Editor

[Olog-hai]

The Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs has heard stinging criticism of the Occupied Territories Bill from former minister for justice Alan Shatter, who likened it to legislation passed in Germany in the 1930s.

Mr. Shatter described the proposed legislation as the first “Boycott Jews bill” by a European government since 1945, and replicated the type of legislation initiated by the Nazis.

Committee chair John Lahart of Fianna Fáil said that a claim made during the proceedings that the bill is anti-Semitic was “hugely hurtful and slanderous”.

For some weeks the committee has been scrutinizing the Bill, known as the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Bill, which prohibits the importation of goods from those settlements.

The committee also heard from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who told TDs and Senators that Palestinian hope was “draining away given the ongoing genocide in Gaza as the world sat on its hands”. […]

Mr. Shatter said the bill’s central obligation is to prohibit “the importation of goods originating in an Israeli settlement”, and that it is now “justified and lauded by some as simply symbolic”.

Mr. Shatter said the symbolism is to “demonize Israel” and to “portray Ireland as advocating the locations be Judenrein, a policy which reflects that attempted in the last century in Europe by Nazi Germany”. …

[af_vet_1981]

Yes, Ireland effectively purged itself nationally from the Catholic faith and is also nationally antisemitic. It is a people and a nation with a self destructive history.

[reg45]

Off Track Betting?

[Words Matter]

Since IRA days, the affinity with PLO jihadis has only grown there.

[Does so]

Who was the Irish rock-star who said, “We [Irish] are the “N-words” of Europe?

[Olog-hai]

That was in the movie The Commitments.