Irish senator blasts Israel as ‘right-wing regime’ committing ‘criminal’ acts in epic rant

In the video embedded below via Addicting Info, openly gay Irish senator and international human rights activist David Norris spoke frankly about the ongoing conflict in Gaza. In his speech, Norris abandoned the normal Pro-Israel vs. Pro-Palestine dichotomy and attempted to address the changes in direction of Israel's rulers.

Norris said that over time, Israel has fundamentally shifted its social and political orientation.

“I am not anti-Israeli, I am not anti-Semitic. I supported the state of Israel. In the forty years I have known the state of Israel and sometimes had a home there I’ve seen it completely changed," he said.

"It changed from a left-wing socially directed country, to an extreme right-wing regime, that is behaving in the most criminal fashion and defying the world. Using -- unscrupulously using -- the Holocaust to justify what they are doing and it is time that rag was torn away from them," Norris continued.

He ended his speech by saying, "I am with human rights whether they are, Israeli, gay, women, black, whatever they are. I am not changing my position. I am not anti-Israel I am not anti-Semitic but I am pro human rights for every human.”

Watch the video, embedded below via YouTube: