{"id":13335,"date":"2025-09-01T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/end-of-central-banks-facilitation-of-the-sale-of-israeli-war-bonds-welcome\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:18:43","slug":"end-of-central-banks-facilitation-of-the-sale-of-israeli-war-bonds-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/end-of-central-banks-facilitation-of-the-sale-of-israeli-war-bonds-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Central Bank&#8217;s facilitation of the sale of Israeli war bonds welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>No EU financial institution should be involved in raising funds which are used to annihilate innocent civilians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>News that the Central Bank will no longer facilitate the sale of Israeli bonds is welcome if overdue, according to Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been reported today that Israel has moved the approval process for its bond prospectus to Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome that the Central Bank will no longer be involved in the facilitation of the sale of these bonds &#8211; which are being used to fund Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision, while welcome, is overdue. It has long been clear that Israel is engaged in not just a wholesale breach of international law and daily war crimes \u2013 but a genocide against the people of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the reason I took a High Court case against the Central Bank, earlier this year, seeking to stop its involvement in funding this horror.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo EU financial institution should be involved in raising funds which are used to annihilate innocent civilians \u2013 and it is deeply disappointing that Luxembourg is now continuing to facilitate the sale of these bonds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU response to this genocide has been shameful \u2013 failing to even agree a response in which Israel\u2019s barbarism has been criticised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now time for the EU to live up to its own purported values, on human rights and international law, and suspend its trade agreement with Israel and impose sanctions on its genocidal regime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No EU financial institution should be involved in raising funds which are used to annihilate innocent civilians News that the Central Bank will no longer facilitate the sale of Israeli bonds is welcome if overdue, according to Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon. \u201cIt has been reported today that Israel has moved the approval process for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,529,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gary-gannon","category-gaza","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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