GAA members are planning to hold a protest outside Croke Park ahead of a summit organised by a company linked to the Israeli military.
Red Hat, which is owned by international technology company IBM, is due to hold an event in the GAA’s headquarters on September 17.
The firm, which has offices in several Irish towns and cities provides IT services to Israeli armed forces responsible for the deaths of more than 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including thousands of woman and children, since last October.
Despite international pressure Israel has refused to call a permanent ceasefire.
It launched the current onslaught after around 1,200 people were killed during a Hamas-led attack inside Israeli territory last October, which resulted in around 200 hostages being taken.
In the past both the GAA and Gaelic Players Association have backed calls for a ceasefire on humanitarian grounds.
However, a decision by Croke Park officials to host the Red Hat organised summit later this month has angered and upset many GAA members across Ireland.
Plans are now being put in place to hold a protest outside the association’s headquarters on the same day as the summit.
Michael Doherty, of campaign group Gaels against Genocide, said it is “demanding that the GAA cancel” the Red Hat event.
“We have a humanitarian duty to not promote companies complicit” with the Israeli operation in Gaza he said.
Mr Doherty urged everyone associated with the GAA, including players and members, “to show your anger at this decision” by contacting senior Croke Park figures.
Mr Doherty added that “should the GAA ignore their moral responsibilities and allow the Red Hat event to take place at Croke Park” Gaels, human rights and Palestinian activists will be urged to attend the protest next week.
Former Derry ladies footballer and prominent lawyer Nodlaig Ní Bhrollaigh has written to GAA director general Tom Ryan.
“Even when faced with a vastly superior opponent, a moral choice still remains,” she said.
“We do not have to be powerless, we can and must make ethical decisions in support of another people and in order to maintain our own decency and our steadfast commitment to international humanitarian law.
“Our GAA must reflect the will of the good and decent people of this association who reject a ‘business as usual’ approach in a time of genocide.”
The GAA was contacted but did not respond.
