In this video, Irish lawmaker Richard Boyd Barrett reads out some of the more shocking, violent and racist statements recently made by Israeli ministers and military officials.

Boyd Barrett was speaking in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, yesterday during questions to Taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny about his visit to Paris earlier this year. Kenny had taken part in a staged photo opportunity with other heads of state and government following the killings at Charlie Hebdo.

“The world was of course utterly appalled by the killing of 12 innocent people, 10 of whom were journalists, at Charlie Hebdo earlier this year,” Boyd Barrett, a deputy for the People Before Profit Alliance, begins. “I have to ask the Taoiseach about the attendance of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the demonstration he joined in the aftermath of those killings.”

After he finishes reading out the statements, Boyd Barrett asks: “These are the official statements of several ministers of the current government of Israel. In one case, the genocide of all Palestinians, including children, has actually been advocated and they have been referred to as ‘snakes.’ Does the Taoiseach agree that if we are defining terrorism, that is the language and thinking of terrorists?”

In a rather muted response to the statements, Kenny says: “On the one hand, I suppose one might say they are all on-message. I find that message regrettable and most unhelpful. I do not agree with those statements. When I met Prime Minister Netanyahu briefly in Paris, I said to him that when I had an opportunity to go to Gaza a number of years ago … I found the situation completely intolerable. I told him that I am a strong supporter of the two-state solution and that peace is always possible.”

Treat Israel like South Africa

Later in the debate, Boyd Barrett slams the “double standards” which lead to Israeli leaders being treated “as if they were a normal government.” This is, Boyd Barrett adds, despite the fact that “Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are guilty of premeditated killing of Palestinians on the same scale and with the same vile ideology running behind it as we see from Islamic State.”

“At what point do we say [Israel] has gone over the line and that it cannot be treated like a normal state?” Boyd Barrett asks. “At a certain point the world said it would no longer deal with South Africa because apartheid was not acceptable anymore.”

The prime minister responds with boilerplate that the EU should do more to get “peace” back on track.

The transcript of Boyd Barrett’s full intervention and Kenny’s responses can be read in the official report of the debate.

The statements he read and many more are contained in a briefing document published by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) last month: “Israel 2015: A government of extremists in charge of an out-of control military,” which calls for an immediate arms embargo and other sanctions.

In an emailed reaction today, IPSC “welcomed [Kenny’s] statement that shocking anti-Palestinian statements by members of the new Israeli cabinet are ‘not part of a philosophy of a democratic government working to bring about peace.’”

But the group said it “remains disappointed; despite this recognition of the true character of the Netanyahu administration, the Irish government continues to refuse to implement any meaningful sanctions on Israel thereby allowing it to continue acting with impunity towards Palestinians.”

Shocking words

Here are the statements Boyd Barrett read out, with sources. Where Boyd Barrett abridged the quotation, I have sometimes included more of the original. The words Boyd Barrett read out are in bold.