UPDATE: BECAUSE OF YOUR ACTION-TAKING, RED CARD HAS CANCELLED THIS EVENT!

Red Card announced on 13th of September that it would cancel this event. We thank everyone who participated in and shared this campaign. This is a huge victory for BDS!

The genocidal acts of the Israeli armed forces over this past eleven months have now resulted in the deaths of over 40,000 Palestinians including over 16,000 babies and children. These daily war crimes wouldn’t be possible without the arms and funding being supplied by the U.S. and many of its Western Allies to the Zionists. They also wouldn’t be possible without the logistical support that the I.D.F. receives from Companies across the world. One such Company is Red Hat who have offices in Ireland.

Therefore many players, club members and GAA supporters across the 32 counties of Ireland and abroad were shocked to learn that Croke Park is hosting a Red Hat Summit on September 17th in Croke Park, our national stadium and one we love. The International Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement has stated that “Red Hat are complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people and that Red Hat are profiting from the death and displacement of the Palestinian people”. Red Hat works extensively and closely with multiple units of the Israeli Military. Indeed a quote from Red Hat’s own website states:

“Mamram – the I.D.F.s central computing system unit relied on Red Hat to support its primary goal of facilitating multiple edge services to various internal customers across the organisation”.

GAA communities are demanding that the GAA cancel this Red Hat Event on September 17th in Croke Park. We have a humanitarian duty to not promote companies complicit in the Genocide of the Palestinian people.

We ask all Gaels, players, GAA members and Club Committees in particular to show your anger at this decision by emailing Coiste Bainistíochta CLG

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Should the GAA ignore their moral responsibilities and allow the Red Hat Event to take place at Croke Park, then we are asking Gaels, Human Rights and Palestinian activists and members of the public to join us at a Protest at Croke Park at 12.00 (Midday) on September 17th (Jones Road) whilst Red Hat delegates are wining and dining inside our National Stadium. Sanctions Now. Israel is a terror state.