Sadaka Campaigns

Palestine Matters!   The 2016 Election Pledge for Palestine

We called on all election candidates to pledge that the next Irish Government will use all institutional mechanisms at its disposal, at both domestic and EU level, to implement the following policies:

• Formally recognise the State of Palestine NOW;


• Campaign for an end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza;


• Seek an EU ban on trade and investment with Israeli colonies/settlements;


• End arms deals with Israel;


• Require Israel to protect Palestinian children;

Did your TD endorse the Pledge for Palestine? Find out here ...

Recognition of the State of Palestine

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Sadaka’s Billboard Campaign lobbied the Irish Government to implement the 2014 unanimous decisions of both Houses of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) which call on the Irish Government ‘to officially recognise the State of Palestine on the basis of the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital'.

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Sadaka Visiting Speakers

Sadaka's Visiting Speakers Programme invites leading Palestinian figures to Ireland to raise public awareness of the situation in the West Bank and Gaza and to lobby the Irish Government to recognise the State of Palestine and its people.

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Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi

Sadaka sponsored visit by Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi of the Palestinian National Initiative (2013). More ...

Palestine & Israel on the Curriculum

Roger Waters (founding member of Pink Floyd) launched the Sadaka Education Resource on Palestine and Israel (2013). More ...

Palestinian Church Leaders

Sadaka hosted eminent Christian church leaders from Palestine to encourage endorsement of Kairos Palestine by the Irish churches (2013)More ...

Other Sadaka projects

Palestine's Call!

Political leaders and representatives of Palestinian NGOs and civil society have called on the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament), in this 1916 commemorative year, to draw on its own historical experience of occupation to be a leading advocate in ending the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine. (Full text PDF 833kb)

Sadaka Publications

We produce free information publications on various aspects of the situation in Palestine - Factsheets containing essential facts, Briefings with more detail, and Papers for a more comprehensive treatment. There is a selection of recent publications below, or for a complete list go to Factsheets, Briefings, or Papers.

One-page Briefings

Why Ireland should recognise the State of Palestine NOW

Settlements – ending trade and investment in war crimes

Palestinian Children: Violence and Fatalities

Gaza – Ireland must work to end the Blockade

Arms Trade with Israel: Ireland’s support for continuing violence

50 years of Israeli occupation: The roadblock to peace Overview:  Next year, in June 2017, it will be 50 years since Israel took over the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza by force against the wishes of the Palestinians who lived there. It is the job of the UN Security Council to reverse aggression of this kind, which is in breach of Article 2.4 of the UN Charter, applying whatever sanctions are necessary to force the aggressor to withdraw. That is what happened when Iraq took over Kuwait by force in 1990. Unfortunately, the Security Council has failed to reverse Israel’s 1967 aggression. As a consequence, Palestinians have been forced to endure almost 50 years of Israeli military occupation without any say in how they are governed – and there is no end in sight.  (Click on cover to download the full Briefing) May 2016, PDF 124 kB.

Israel: EU Losing Sight Of The Facts Overview:  While the state of Israel continues its colonial project in the Occupied Palestinian Territories with its relentless settlement expansion, its shoot-to-kill policy and its arrest and detention of minors, the EU and other international players continue to ignore the fact that without sanctions against Israel to force it to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories, the two-state solution is dead.  (Click on cover to download the full Briefing) January 2016, PDF 189 kB.

Without sanctions against Israel, the "two-state solution" is dead Overview:   The "two-state solution" is dead unless serious and sustained economic sanctions are applied to Israel by the international community to force it to withdraw from the Occupied Palestinian Territories.  (Click on cover to download the full Briefing) September 2015, PDF 80 kB.

Palestine October 2015 (Factsheet) Overview:  Between 1st October and 2nd November, the Israeli police/army and Israeli settlers combined have killed 73 Palestinians.12 of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces were children, one an eight month old baby who suffocated as a result of tear gas fired by the Israeli army. October 2015 (Download PDF 68 kB)

Israeli Settlements: Colonies and War Crimes (Factsheet) Overview:  When a state, which is occupying territory not its own, builds settlements on that territory and transfers its own citizens into them, that process is a war crime, under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Israel has occupied the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) since1967 and has transferred well over half a million of its own citizens into that territory. September 2015 (Download PDF 59 kB)

A little legal restraint on Israel at last? Overview:   Palestine has become a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and accepted its jurisdiction in Palestinian territories. There is now a peaceful legal means of applying pressure on Israel to cease its colonisation of Palestinian territory.  (Click on cover to download the full Briefing) March 2015, PDF 96 kB.

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Recent Press Articles

Whitewash Protocol: The So-Called Investigation of Operation Protective Edge (B’Tselem, September 2016)

Churches Rip Israel for Occupation and ‘Prison-Like’ Gaza (Forward, 16 September 2016)

Palestine: ICC Should Open Formal Probe (Human Rights Watch, 5 June 2016)

Palestinian family forcibly evicted from its home in occupied East Jerusalem (UN OCHA, 15 September 2016)

Israel is a Settler Colonial State - and that's OK (Arnon Degani, Haaretz, 13 September 2016)

Netanyahu’s claim of 'ethnic cleansing' sets a Guinness record for chutzpah (Haaretz, 11 September 2016)

Washington calls Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing video ‘inappropriate’ (Times of Israel, 10 September 2016)

The Great Railway Scandal (Uri Avnery, 10 September 2016)

Gaza crossings’ operational status (UN OCHA, August 2016)

Two years after the 2014 Gaza hostilities, 16 heads of UN agencies in Palestine call for greater flow of material and funding (UN OCHA, 26 August 2016)

1933: Jews make a travel agreement with Nazi Germany (Haaretz, 25 August 2016)

Yad Vashem officials slam Polish government: 'New bill is very close to Holocaust denial' (Haaretz, 24 August 2016)

Celtic fans raise more than £90,000 for Palestinian charities after flag protest (Guardian, 23 August 2016)

UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in Palestine warns of a heightened risk of forcible transfers of Bedouins in the West Bank (22 August 2016)

School year opens in Khan al Ahmar (UN OCHA oPt, 17 August 2016)

With return of funding, Israel sees increase in full-time Torah students (Haaretz, 17 August 2016)

Report sparks dozens of new testimonies of Ashkenazi kids disappearing, some in pre-state Israel (Haaretz, 16 August 2016)

The Arab-Israeli conflict in 10 points (Irish Times, 16 August 2016)

The West Bank’s new normal (Electronic Intifada, 15 August 2016)

EU logo no shield from Israel’s bulldozers (Electronic Intifada, 15 August 2016)

Holland probes threats against Palestinian group’s lawyer at The Hague (Electronic Intifada, 15 August 2016)

Evangelical Lutherans to US: End Israel aid if settlements stay (Times of Israel, 14 August 2016)

Evangelical aid was once taboo in Israel. Now it's on the rise. Why? (Haaretz, 15 August 2016)

Thirst and narrative (Adam Keller, 12 August 2016)

Time for Israel to admit: The Yemenite children were systematically kidnapped (Haaretz, 31 July 2016)

Israel seeking to deport foreign pro-boycott activists (Haaretz, 7 August 2016)

World Sees Israel as a Pariah State, Senior Government Official Says (Haaretz, 7 August 2016)

Israel shuns investigations when cops shoot Palestinian assailants (Haaretz, 6 August 2016)

Palestinians inside Israel are under attack (Jonathan Cook, The National, 2 August 2016)

Israel approves new law to jail child 'terrorists' as young as 12 (Independent, 3 August 2016)

Israel temporarily lifts travel ban on BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti (Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 2 August 2016)

Israel’s hydro-apartheid keeps West Bank thirsty (Electronic Intifada, 1 August 2016)

Israel deliberately forces inhuman conditions on Palestinians working in the country by permit (B’Tselem, 31 July 2016)

Home demolitions are organized state violence (Hagit El-Ad, Director, B’Tselem, +972, 28 July 2016)

Secret 1970 document confirms first West Bank settlements built on a lie (Haaretz, 28 July 2016)

The dishonest Democratic Party platform on Israel (Peter Beinart, Haaretz, 25 July 2016)

250 Israeli Rabbis Publicly Back Head of pre-IDF Academy Who Called Gay People 'Perverts' (Haaretz, 20 July 2016)

Disappointed, French Jews leave Israel (Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 19 July 2016)

US Jews on civil rights-style protest in West Bank (Times of Israel, 18 July 2016)

Israeli NGOs decry ‘deeply anti-democratic move’ as new law approved Washington Post, 12 July 2016)

EU ambassadors protest at Israel's confiscation of West Bank shelters Guardian, 18 July 2016)

Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Arab Peace Initiative (Henry Siegman, National Interest, 30 June 2016)

Israeli army chief defends decision to hire controversial rabbi who defended rape of non-Jewish women (Middle East Eye, 13 July 2016)

"It can happen to anyone!" (Adam Keller, 9 July 2016)

"We have a right to engage in non-violent action": Christian leaders refuse to be silenced in struggle for Palestinian rights (David Palumbo-Liu, Salon, 4 July 2016)

New regulations allow Israel Police to respond to stone-throwing, firecrackers with live fire (Haaretz, 5 July 2016)

Why are the Dutch funding settlers in Palestine? (Aljazeera, 4 July 2016)

Middle East ‘Quartet’ releases report on advancing two-state solution to Israel-Palestine conflict (1 July 2016)

Israel should stop building settlements and denying Palestinian development, says Middle East 'Quartet' (Independent, 1 July 2016)

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