Campaigns & Initiatives
Sadaka seeks to engage and inform Irish policymakers and public representatives, presenting them with reasoned arguments and factual information, based clearly on international law. In our current programme we focus on key aspects of Israel’s denial of fundamental rights and freedoms to the Palestinian people and the need for an adequate response from the international community.
The flagrant violations of international laws regarding occupation require a clear response from the international community in their relations with Israel. By promoting measures such as the Occupied Territories Bill (OTB), Sadaka challenges the Irish government to show Israel that such actions have consequences.
As a growing number of voices denounce Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise targeting the Palestinian people as a situation of Apartheid, Sadaka seeks to demonstrate the impact of Israel’s institutionalised discrimination on every aspect of the lives of those who live in the West Bank and Jerusalem, in Gaza, in Israel, and in exile.
In August and September 2021, Sadaka, in collaboration with DCI Palestine, conducted a campaign to highlight the difficulties faced by Palestinian children over the course of their education.
Annexation
2021
On the 25th of May 2021, following months of work from Sadaka, Trócaire, Christian Aid, ICTU, and collaboration from both Government and Opposition, the Dáil has supported a parliamentary motion condemning the de facto annexation of Palestinian land by Israel, developed by John Brady TD, Sinn Féin.
Denouncing Israeli Apartheid
2021
Sadaka is amongst the growing number of NGOs both domestically and internationally, defining Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people as one of apartheid.