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Crisis in Gaza
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Friday April 11, 2008 15:03 by Margaretta D'Arcy
Debacle at public meeting in Galway 30 students from The Irish Centre Of Human Rights Galway walked out in the middle of an Amnesty public meeting called to hear the recent experiences of a Galway woman in Gaza “Crisis In Gaza” was an Amnesty Public Meeting in Galway’s Harbour Hotel on the 9th of April: Treasa Ní Cheannabhain had been invited to talk about her recent and highly-publicized visit to Gaza, a community under siege. Noam Lubell (an Israeli citizen) from the NUI Galway Human Rights Centre was on the platform to give, we were told, the perceptive overview of an academic and human rights expert. The evening ended in disarray when about 30 of his students walked out at what was perceived as a personal question to Mr Lubell. A bizarre turn of events in an open public meeting and extremely disrespectful to Ms Ní Cheannabhain. |
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