PQ 205
205. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 27 May 2025, wherein he claimed that it is not for him to make determinations about what qualifies as antisemitic and further to correspondences with the Minister for Justice (details supplied) wherein the Minister claimed that it is not for him to describe the details or status of the definition, how exactly the definition is to be applied, considering, separately, the ambiguity in official responsibility for the definition, and the textual ambiguity inherent in the definition; and his views on whether this ambiguity may have a “chilling effect” upon criticism of Israeli policy; notwithstanding that the definition is legally non-binding and that it notionally accepts particular kinds of criticism of the Israeli state. [30513/25]
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205. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 27 May 2025, wherein he claimed that it is not for him to make determinations about what qualifies as antisemitic and further to correspondences with the Minister for Justice (details supplied) wherein the Minister claimed that it is not for him to describe the details or status of the definition, how exactly the definition is to be applied, considering, separately, the ambiguity in official responsibility for the definition, and the textual ambiguity inherent in the definition; and his views on whether this ambiguity may have a “chilling effect” upon criticism of Israeli policy; notwithstanding that the definition is legally non-binding and that it notionally accepts particular kinds of criticism of the Israeli state. [30513/25]
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- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2025-06-10/205/
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