Irish senator and former presidential candidate David Norris made a powerful speech condemning Israel’s violence in Gaza and the complicity of American and European governments.

“In the 40 years that I have known the State of Israel and sometimes had a home there, I have seen it completely change. It changed from a left-wing, socially directed country to an extreme right-wing regime that is behaving in the most criminal fashion, defying the world and unscrupulously using the Holocaust to justify what they are doing” says the senator.

He referred furiously to Israel’s violence by saying “Entire families have been obliterated and in one case, 20 members of the same family were slaughtered. Also, a disproportionate amount of women and children have been killed in this situation, which is a violation of all the spiritual beauty that Judaism stands for – the respect for life and the fact that if one saves one life then one has saved the universe.”

Senator David Norris also lashed out at European countries and US role by saying that “America has a shameful role to play in this. Israel could not get away with these disgraceful acts of international piracy and brigandage if it was not for the protecting shadow of the United States of America”.

Regarding the role of Irish government, he said it is absolute shameful not having “even mark a protest note with their vote at the United Nations Human Rights Commission”.