An Irish protester who interrupted British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s news conference in Beirut on Monday with a call to boycott Israel is an anti-Israel activist. Caoimhe Butterly has participated in several high-profile actions in the West Bank, most notably in 2002 when she gained entry to Yasser Arafat’s besieged compound in Ramallah.
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