“It comes from 2,000 years of history,” Taylor told a reporter about his drive to help minority groups and marginalized populations as the Irish Labour Party’s top equality officer.
A day earlier, his city's lawmakers passed a nonbinding resolution to expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland over the killing of Palestinian protesters at the Gaza border.
An alternative resolution calling for both the Israeli and Palestinian flags to fly in acknowledgment of “the suffering of civilians on both sides” was defeated.