The Galway Races and the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign : Never the Twain Shall Meet?

No €400 a plate, pig-out, in the Fianna Fail Hospitality Tent only bearing witness to beleaguered Palestine

After our successful hijacking of the opening of the Woodie's DIY store in Limerick last week, the Limerick and Galway branches of the IPSC again combined forces, this time for an eight hour stint outside the boarded up Taffe's Sweater Shop in Shop Street yesterday. Fortunately, or unfortunately there was a coachload or two of Israeli tourists in town and a serious tranche of them were trigger happy and wanton with their spleen and denial when they chanced upon our Israeli Blood Diamonds petition/info table.

Every shabby mantra, shibboleth and charge was trotted out and flung in the vain hope some of them would stick and cow us or elicit the sympathy of the attendant crown; from charges of "Anti-Semitism" to being "fake" (whatever that meant?), to the prioritisation of Israeli civilian casualties over Palestinian ones, etc, etc.

Ok, so we ran the gauntlet of people, frighteningly, in denial and brain washed, it's par for the course, at least, none of them were as ugly as the four Israelis who some two months back tried to wrestle the Palestinian flag from one us after the one woman amongst them began screaming; "The Palestinians are dogs, they have no rights".

Meanwhile, a few miles up the Road in Ballybrit, Fianna Fail were entertaining the faithful and their builder/property developer friends and possibly honchoes from Cement Roadstone Holdings which is, shamefully, help build the Zionist iron garrotte around the West Bank; the Apartheid Wall.

Israeli mother and son in incandescent denial as regards the war crimes visited upon hapless Palestine by their country

Still at it!

Unrelated to the, out of control Israelis, this pilgrim after tearing up our info leaflet in front of our faces, summonsed the Gardai - God bless 'em they gave him short shrift and one of them was genuinely interested in what we were doing