Member's statement: Gaza: Páistí Scoile a Maraíodh/Schoolchildren Killed

Member's statement by Mr Pat Sheehan on 22 September 2025.

MLA: Mr Pat Sheehan
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 22 September 2025
Type: Member's statement
Business: Members' Statements
Heading: Gaza: Páistí Scoile a Maraíodh/Schoolchildren Killed
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5123318

Text

“Scríobhann sí m’ainm orm ionas go mbeifear ábalta mo ghéaga a bhailiú má bhuamálann siad muid.”
Sin na focail a chan cailín óg ó Gaza sa ghearrscannán ‘Soft Skin’. Bhí páistí scoile in Gaza ag caint sa scannán ar an nós atá anois ag máithreacha in Gaza. Scríobhfaidh na máithreacha ainm an pháiste ar lámh nó ar chos an pháiste sula bhfágann an páiste an teach. "Aoibhinn beatha an scoláire," ach ní in Gaza. Bhí an Lá Idirnáisiúnta chun an tOideachas a Chosaint ar an Ionsaí ann tá coicís ó shin. Bliain is an t-am seo, thug mé óráid uaim ar an ábhar chéanna. Thug mé staitisticí agus fíricí faoi líon na mac léinn, na múinteoirí agus na léachtóirí ar mharaigh fórsaí Iosrael iad. Thug mé cuntas ar na scoileanna agus na hollscoileanna ar scrios fórsaí Iosrael iad. Thug mé le fios go raibh an scrios Iosraelach ar an oideachas chomh holc sin gur cheap na Náisiúin Aontaithe focal dó, mar a bhí: an léinn-díothú. I ndiaidh dom bheith ag éisteacht le cuid de na hargóintí a rinneadh sa Teach seo le gairid, nuair a chuala mé cuid de na Comhaltaí go fóill ag dul ar leithscéal Iosrael, ag dul ar leithscéal Iosrael as páistí a mharú agus iad ag iarraidh oideachas a fháil agus ag dul ar leithscéal Iosrael as mná a scaoileadh agus iad ag fanacht le bia a fháil, thuig mé faoi dheireadh go bhfuil cuid de na Comhaltaí ar nós cuma liom faoi fhíricí. Féadann Jews for Justice for Palestinians, B’Tselem, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch agus na Náisiúin Aontaithe, féadann siad uilig go léir uafáis Iosrael a chur ar a súile dóibh, agus tabharfaidh na Comhaltaí sin an chluas bhodhar do na fíricí. Níl ann ach gairm in aghaidh gaoithe do dhuine ar bith a bheith ag trácht ar an 15,000 mac léinn atá anois marbh in Gaza de dheasca ionsaithe Iosrael. Ní dhéanfaidh sé lá difir do na Comhaltaí sin. Déanfaidh siad leithscéal eile d’Iosrael, dá áiféisí.
“Scríobhann sí m’ainm orm ionas go mbeifear ábalta mo ghéaga a bhailiú má bhuamálann siad muid.”
Sin mar atá ag páistí scoile in Gaza de dheasca ionsaithe Iosrael. "Aoibhinn beatha an scoláire," ach ní in Gaza, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Ní in Gaza.

375 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Assessment

Not flagged

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: 0.27 (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 (0.55).
Subject area: Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice).
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

Probability that each statement is true of this text (0 = no, 1 = yes). A criterion counts as met at 0.60 or above.
Question	Probability	Met?
Identity framing	0.36	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.18	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.04	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.18	No
Controversy escalation	0.16	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.19	No
Overall judgement	0.27	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.55
Reports or questions it	0.01
Criticises or condemns it	0.30
Adopts it	0.14

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice)	0.46
Education structures, integration and community division	0.14
Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers	0.13
Another identity-related subject	0.12
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.05

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 13:11 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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