Gerry Carroll has submitted a Motion of No Confidence in the Education Minister Paul Givan.
His whitewashing trip to Israel - a state responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of children - is abominable and must be challenged. We hope all MLAs who have rightly called what Israel is doing a genocide will sign up to this motion.
What it will take:
- The motion is currently being reviewed by the Stormont Business Office.
- If accepted, then the signature of 30 MLAs is needed to debate it.
- A majority of Stormont MLAs have officially criticised Israel’s actions as genocide - over 50.
We hope all MLAs who have rightly called what Israel is doing a genocide will sign up to this motion.
Gerry Carroll stated: "At the end of 2024, 534 school buildings in Palestine were bombed or damaged by Israel. Over 600,000 students in the region have been left without access to education and 20,000 children have been murdered by the Israeli war machine. The fact that the Minister deems it appropriate to visit Israel two years into its genocidal assault on Palestine shows he is completely tone deaf.
"The Department of Education has been actively promoting the Minister’s visit, which is completely inappropriate. This trip is clearly politically motivated, as demonstrated by the fact that some of the most vocal Zionists in the Assembly and Belfast City Council have joined the Minister on this trip.
"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.
"I’m submitting an Assembly motion expressing no confidence in the Minister and calling on him to resign. I hope other parties will support this call."