Motion or amendment: Recognition of the State of Palestine
Motion or amendment by Mr Gerry Carroll on .
- MLA
- Mr Gerry Carroll
- Party at the time
- People Before Profit Alliance
- Date
- 4 July 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Recognition of the State of Palestine
- Assembly identifier
- Document 445985
Read the official Assembly record Open Data source
Text
Recognition of the State of Palestine
That this Assembly notes that 75 per cent of UN member states have now recognised Palestine as a state; expresses its deep regret that the British and Irish governments are complicit in genocide in Palestine by facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds, permitting public bodies and agencies to bank with financial institutions with ties to arms companies and allowing weapons to Israel to fly through Irish airspace; recognises that our devolved institutions came into being as a result of peacebuilding and reconciliation, giving the North of Ireland an authoritative voice on peace processes; and calls on the Northern Ireland Executive to write to the UK Prime Minister, demanding that the UK Government recognises Palestine as an independent state and establishes a Palestinian embassy.
130 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.19 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.95).
- The overall probability was at or below the not-flagging threshold.
This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.
Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.11 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.07 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.02 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.14 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.15 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.50 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.19 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.95 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.01 |
| Adopts it | 0.04 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.42 |
| Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty | 0.41 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.09 |
| Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers | 0.04 |
| Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism | 0.02 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 09:08 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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