Collision course - Israeli relations

IRELAND is on a collision course with Israel on a number of fronts: Our tacit support for Palestinian activists, our opposition to the expansion of illegal settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories, and, most recently, an attempt to bring in a law that would boycott goods produced in those settlements.

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu summoned our ambassador, Alison Kelly, to his office in Jerusalem to protest at what he and his government describes as an attempt to “give backing to those who seek to boycott Israel”.