The signs that read “Richard Neal, cannot be hidden. You are supporting the genocide,” protesters made their voice listen to this week as Western Massachusetts legislator visited Ireland.
About 50 pro-palestinian protesters We were greeted by the representative Richard Neal, D-1st DistrictAccording to Killarney County Council, according to the magazine reports, an Irish news organization.
Neal, the maximum democrat of tax writing Committee of Home Affairs and MediaIt is among the ranks of the U.S. House legislators who have supported the siege of Gaza de Israel.
The protesters led Neal to the task for this support, along with his vote in favor of a controversial project of consciousness of anti -Semitism that critics say that it is a pretext for a support support support for the Palestinian cause, reported the Irish news.
Neal, from Springfield, was one of the six of the nine legislators in the Bay House who voted in favor of the bill.
The protesters, who gathered outside the house muckrossA historic Victorian mansion in an Irish National Park accused Neal of Hypocrisy because he played a key role in facilitating the conversations they caused The Good Friday’s agreementwhich ended the longest period of conflict in Irish history, the newspaper reported.
It 1998 Pact of Peace He also assured that there would be no return to a “hard border” between Northern Ireland controlled by the British and the Republic of Ireland. NEAL, 76, is the highest democrat of the Caucus Friends of Ireland of Congress, according to his official biography.
One of these protesters, who only identified the newspaper as Mary, told the news that “obviously the peace process is really important for Northern Ireland, which is still under occupation.”
“We put ourselves in a truly horrible position when we have it here, staying it and having the people who stay on their shoulders with Israel for his position,” said Mary, who helped organize the protest.
Neal was between the dust scores and high -profile business leaders who traveled to Ireland for the world economic summit, which happened on Wednesday. The Springfield legislator also has ancestral links with the area, according to Irish news.