Debate contribution: End Israeli Impunity in Gaza
Debate contribution by Miss Deirdre Hargey on .
- MLA
- Miss Deirdre Hargey
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 24 June 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- End Israeli Impunity in Gaza
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5047497
Read the official Assembly record
Text
I thank everyone who has contributed. I had not intended to speak, but I have listened to what people have said and have scribbled a couple of things down. The past couple of weeks have reminded me of one of my favourite speeches by the inspiring British MP, the late Tony Benn, about the Iraq war. In that speech, he spoke about his experience of growing up in London during the Blitz and how the community was impacted by that. From that came the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is an international framework that many here have spoken about. The proposer of the amendment mentioned that all civilian life is protected under international law, and I agree with that. Let us look at the issues, which pertained long before 7 October 2023; indeed, the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council have had hundreds of resolutions between them. If you do a quick Google search, you will see hundreds of resolutions predating 2023 that pertain to conflict. I will name a few of those. In December 1968, they looked to establish a:
"Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People".
In 1971, they called on Israel to stop its illegal settlements. In 1977, following previous appeals — there are many such calls in the hundreds of resolutions — there was a call on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories. In 1981, there was condemnation of an Israeli attack on an Iraqi nuclear facility. History repeated itself right up to the present day, and looking back to last year, the International Court of Justice said that the occupation of Palestinian territories is unlawful. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Government Ministers and, right at the top of that Cabinet, the Prime Minister for war crimes and crimes against humanity. There is no balance in oppression and illegal occupation, and there is certainly no balance in genocide.
327 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: 0.14 (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 (0.89).
- 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 | 0.17 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.07 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.02 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.07 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.08 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.41 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.14 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.89 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.07 |
| Adopts it | 0.04 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.58 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.20 |
| Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers | 0.14 |
| Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice) | 0.05 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.02 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 12:55 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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