To stand with Palestinians is to stand against racism and apartheid

Derek O’Flynn, press officer of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin (Letters, July 15) seemed a little confused as to the meaning of solidarity with Palestine, which of course goes back to the original ethnic cleansing, Al Nakba, carried out by what became the state of Israel, in 1948.

Indeed most of the population of Gaza is comprised of refugees from 1948 and 1967. Gaza Action Ireland as a solidarity group tries to highlight the injustices the Palestinian people, including but not confined to those in Gaza, have been subjected to by the Israeli state, since, yes, 1948. It is no “revelation” that Palestinians and solidarity activists date the injustice back to 1948.

Anyone with a passing interest in world affairs knows that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is far from “non-existent”.