Debate contribution: Palestine Action: High Court Ruling
Debate contribution by Mr Declan Kearney on .
- MLA
- Mr Declan Kearney
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 16 February 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Matter of the Day
- Heading
- Palestine Action: High Court Ruling
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5390986
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Friday's High Court ruling is hugely significant. It vindicates the position of thousands of activists, including the brave hunger strikers, that highlighting genocide is not a crime. State suppression of the Palestinian solidarity movement has failed in its attempt to silence those exposing Israeli war crimes, which have been aided and abetted by the British state. Instead of pursuing an appeal, the British Government must now lift the ban on Palestine Action without delay and bring their anti-democratic crackdown on Palestinian solidarity activists to an immediate end. The British Government should, with immediate effect, quash the convictions and end the prosecutions of those brought before the courts under that outrageous, draconian and now deemed unlawful legislation. Friday was a positive day for decency and humanity. We must continue to speak up for the besieged people of Gaza and never allow any world power to undermine that basic right. The British Government now have to fundamentally change their position on the rights of the Palestinian people. They should end their complicity in the illegal occupation of Palestine, the ongoing genocide and the annexation and get on the right side of global humanity and international law.
194 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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