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.
Police and university security were unable to remove the 40 pro-Palestinian students at Trinity College, who reportedly chanted “genocidal slogans calling for Israel’s destruction."
