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DUBLIN PROTEST:SIPTU PRESIDENT Jack O’Connor has called on the Government to lead the way in reversing the decision to allow Israel to join the OECD, after the attack on the Gaza flotilla.

Mr O’Connor described the attack as “a betrayal of the memory of the victims of the Holocaust”. In an impassioned speech at a protest march that began at the GPO in O’Connell Street in Dublin the Siptu president also joined calls for Ireland’s ambassador to Israel to be expelled “not forever, but until his country complies with UN resolutions and with international law”. He also backed the campaign to disinvest in Israel and boycott its products.