People Before Profit (PBP) MLA Gerry Carroll has announced he will be submitting a motion of no confidence in the Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) Education Minister Paul Givan, due to the latter’s current “fact-finding mission” to so-called Israel.

On his Facebook page, Carroll said:

His whitewashing trip to Israel – a state responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of children – is abominable and must be challenged. I hope all MLAs who have rightly called what Israel is doing a genocide — there are over 50 of us — will sign up to this motion.

In reality, motions of no confidence have little chance of passing in the Assembly, as they require strong support from both unionist and nationalist parties to pass. It is likely Gavin would receive the backing of other unionist MLAs. He has been joined on his trip to the genocidal regime by Steve Aiken, finance spokesperson for Ulster Unionist Party (UUP); Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) deputy leader Ron McDowell and DUP MP Sammy Wilson.

Symbolic motion to try and shame the shameless

However, Carroll is confident he will have the backing of the 30 MLAs required to debate the motion, and potentially a majority ready to back it. This would at least be a symbolic show of disgust at the visit to an overt land theft project whose leaders are wanted by the International Criminal Court.

Carroll concluded by saying:

The fact that the Minister and his colleagues set off on this junket just as the Education Authority revealed a £300 million black hole in its budget adds further insult to injury.

The trip will not have increased the black hole Carroll refers to, due to it being paid for by the Zionist regime. A DUP spokesman said:

The visit comes at no cost to UK taxpayers

Paul Givan: Zionist-paid junket should be treated as corruption

In a political culture with functioning norms of propriety, accepting such hospitality would be treated as a form of bribery, as elected representatives supposed to represent the interests of their own constituents are wined and dined by a foreign government hoping to win favourable treatment. Such sleaze is obviously compounded by the fact that the foreign regime is engaged in crimes that some have suggested surpass those of the Nazis.

Paul Givan has filled his social media timeline with propaganda from his travels, including a visit to the heart of barbarism — the Knesset — where he said:

Today I had the opportunity to visit the Knesset. The only democratic Parliament in the Middle East.

Given how often this lie is repeated by Western Zionist politicians and media, it’s important to be clear – ‘Israel’ is not a democracy, it is an apartheid pseudo-state. It subjects Palestinians within its borders to unfair treatment, including discriminating against them in terms of land purchases, voting access and suppression of the Arabic language. Those in Gaza and the West Bank are subjected to military law, with constant surveillance and a web of checkpoints that make free movement impossible. Meanwhile, land thieves (sometimes called settlers) in the West Bank fall under Israeli civilian law.

McDowell continued the theme when taking a pop at Sinn Féin’s supposed move away from ‘Israel’:

I am happy to make friends and forge relationships with democracies that have something to offer Northern Ireland. Countries who can teach and invest here. I met with Ministry of Foreign affairs representatives today, Ministry for education projects and held meetings with Israels [sic] version of MPs in the Knesset.

Success — ‘Ireland’ is virtually a swear word in the Zionist entity

On that economic front, there may actually be good news, as Sammy Wilson reported:

The mention of the word ‘Ireland’ immediately provoked a negative reaction. For all their attempts to present themselves to the rest of the world as friendly and affable in Israel, they are seen as enemies to the extent that Israel has even withdrawn its embassy on the grounds they can’t do business with Ireland. 

So the limited pressure applied by Ireland to the Zionist fake state may be bearing fruit, as tensions calcify. This is the kind of untethering that is necessary to ostracise the genocidaires in Tel Aviv and West Jerusalem from the rest of the world. Wilson, however, like McDowell, bemoaned the “useless economy minister” (Sinn Féin’s Caoimhe Archibald) for her tentative steps away from the genocide economy.

Paul Givan has been criticised by the Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council (NITC), who represent the major teaching unions. They said:

The minister’s actions in promoting this visit on these platforms is an overtly political and divisive act that serves to diminish confidence in his judgement and respect for the views of the wider education workforce and community.

The NITC also hit out at him for his use of the Department of Education’s social media accounts to post material whitewashing the genocidal apartheid regime. The group said the “inappropriate social media posts” were wrong and that “official governmental online platforms should be politically neutral”. They also stated that Givan and co.’s tour was being taken:

…in the context of what has been recognised by the UN as a genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

No luck trying to pass off serial mass murderers as normal

Even narrow-minded zealots such as Wilson and Givan may have thought it tone-deaf to travel to the Zionist entity — while it was massacring civilians on a daily basis.

They may have hoped the lull in mass murder would have enabled them to pass off an ethno-supremacist society as vaguely normal. However, Zionist bloodlust is such that they have restarted their project of extermination in Gaza before the politicians could jump back on the plane home, thereby bringing unionist complicity in genocide into even sharper relief.

By Robert Freeman

This post was originally published on Canary.