I rather foolishly agreed to do a bit of coaching with two Gaelic football teams this year – one in west Waterford and one in Dublin. It kept me going, let’s say. And countless times, it kept me off the streets when Irish people were trying to make clear their opposition to the continuing slaughter of innocents in Gaza. If I missed marches in support of Palestine, more often than not I was able to blame the GAA. I was out of town. I was “too busy”.
Ongoing assault
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, released a report in June this year that named the asset management firm Pimco as one of a number of firms that had purchased Israeli treasury bonds. Pimco is owned by Allianz.
These bonds play a “critical role in funding the ongoing assault on Gaza”, according to the report
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