Protesters demand sanctions

THE streets of Dublin rang out last night to demands that the Israeli ambassador be expelled and trade sanctions be imposed against the mideast state as about 2,000 people marched through the capital to protest against yesterday’s aid flotilla attack.

At the O’Connell Street Spire, and again at the march’s conclusion outside the Israeli Embassy building in Ballsbridge, the demonstrators heard a succession of speakers, including ICTU president Jack O’Connor, Fianna Fáil TD Chris Andrews, Sinn Féin TD Aengus O Snodaigh and Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) chairman David Landy, demand the Government impose tough sanctions on Israel.

Mr Landy, whose group organised the protest, told the crowd it was not enough for the Government to adopt its usual damage limitation mode, but “to take real action” against Israel in response to the attack.