Last Thursday evening, traffic along O’Connell Street ground to a near halt as around 50 activists made a slow march from the Garden of Remembrance toward the Central Bank. The move was the latest in a long line of protests in the last year by Palestinian solidarity groups over the Central Bank’s role in facilitating the sale of Israeli bonds in Europe.  Under EU rules, any third country that wants to offer bonds to the public or trade on a regulated market in the bloc must have a securities prospectus  — essentially an investment brochure — approved by a competent…

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