Report: The Price of Prosperity: How US FDI is Enabling Genocide in Gaza and Eroding Our Neutrality’ by Paulie Doyle, Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie

As part of a recently launched Uplift, People Powered Change campaign entitled “The Neutrality Files”, centre member Patrick Brodie and colleagues, Paulie Doyle and Patrick Bresnihan, outline the challenge to Ireland’s so-called neutrality in relation to the ongoing war in Palestine.

The first volume of this report, “The Price of Prosperity – How US FDI Is Enabling Genocide in Gaza and Eroding Our Neutrality,” highlights Ireland’s economic dependence on U.S. multinationals, and the threat to Ireland’s neutral position:

“The research uncovers how the prioritisation of US corporate interests, via trade, foreign direct investment and economic planning has resulted in a dramatic increase in trade with Israel in recent years and the sidelining of hugely popular policy proposals such as the Occupied Territories Bill. This government is using its strategic position to strengthen US foreign policy priorities and, in the process, weaken Irish neutrality and push for greater militarisation.”

With Ireland being the world’s second largest importer of Israeli goods in 2024, the question of Irish neutrality and the country’s relationship to the U.S. and ongoing foreign policies raises significant red flags.

Read the executive summary of the report at Uplift, People Powered Change: https://www.uplift.ie/neutrality-files/

Read Colin Sheridan’s response on The Examiner: irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41728299.html