Amnesty International, B'Tselem, Al-Haq and many others have documented the crimes of apartheid inflicted on the Palestinian people by the state of Israel. I welcome the fact that the Jewish Voice for Peace and Amnesty International will be giving a joint briefing on Israeli apartheid in Leinster House tomorrow. Five United Nations special rapporteurs have endorsed the recent report by the UN which found that Israel is inflicting the crime of apartheid on the Palestinian people. When will we see Ireland standing up to Israeli terror, just as we are rightly standing up to Russian terror? There are two terror states but one is getting preferential treatment.

I would not accept that. Ireland has been very strong at the UN Security Council on this. Indeed, the Secretary General has thanked me for Ireland's proactive role at the Security Council on the Palestinian question and in support of the Palestinian right to a homeland and general issues.

I am not clear on the advocacy that Sinn Féin members have promoted on behalf of Palestinians when they go to America. When they meet with senior politicians in America, they are very quiet in regard to Palestinians as they make presentations to the United States.

Come off it.

They are. I would love to hear the outcome because it never seems to get mentioned or surfaced. It is just as Sinn Féin was soft on Russia. I remember that it did not accept the invasion of Crimea as the partition of Ukraine. Some of Sinn Fein's representatives at conferences in Moscow-----

Israel is a terror state.

Some of the representatives of the party in a Moscow conference - I think it was Mr. Ó Dubhghlais-----

We are out of time.

He said it was justified and that the freedom fighters in the independence areas were justified in fighting “the Nazis in Kiev”.

Nothing is happening to Israel.

We are out of time. I call Deputy O’Dea.