Louth PBP activist says Trump should be indicted, not fêted

Louth People Before Profit activist, James Renaghan has condemned US President Donald Trump’s “open threat to commit ethnic cleansing in Gaza”, and said that “as St Patrick’s Day approaches Trump should be indicted, not fêted.”

Mr Renaghan said: “US President Trump's announcement last week of US plans to occupy Gaza and remove its two million people is an open threat to commit ethnic cleansing. This threat must be met by unequivocal condemnation and acts of real solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine.

“Ireland must not bend the knee to Trump's violent agenda and must make clear our total opposition to what the US is planning. Now more than ever we need to impose sanctions on Israel for their genocide in Gaza and we must move quickly to end the use of Shannon airport by the US military.

“Unfortunately we have seen how the new government has already bent the knee to the US by announcing plans to drop Senator Frances Black’s Occupied Territories Bill and replace it with draft legislation that will inevitably be much weaker. There must be no more of this ‘bootlicking’.”

Mr Renaghan added, “no Irish politician, from the government or the opposition, should go to Washington to meet Donald Trump or his administration on St Patrick’s Day. People Before Profit demands that neither government nor opposition debases itself with a public show of subservience to the Trump regime.

"Irish people will be nauseated by any such grotesque spectacle on St Patrick’s Day. Donald Trump should be indicted, not fêted.”