This offers no threat to Israel - Opposition to conference

SINCE it was first mooted, media reports on plans to hold a conference in Cork on Israel have been invariably preceded by the adjective “controversial”.

As the Irish Examiner reported earlier this week: “A controversial conference about Israel is to go ahead in Cork at the end of the month but will be jointly staged at City Hall and University College Cork.”

The full title of the conference is ‘International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Exceptionalism and Responsibility.’