My timeline is Palestine, socialist, feminist, pro trans, anti racist, eco socialist, Marxist, anti colonialism, anti borders, pro refugees, housing, health activism and I've never seen an evening where *everyone* is tweeting about one person -Sinéad O’Connor. She was a giant 💔
Ireland is not full.
Ireland is not full.
Ireland is not full.
Ireland is not full.
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1 year. 🇵🇸 In 2014, offered 10 times her usual fee and broke at the time, Sinéad O’Connor cancelled a gig in apartheid Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people. “There’s not a sane person on earth who in any way sanctions what the fuck the Israeli authorities are doing.”
I just cannot accept that as we see thousands of images of broken and burned little children in Gaza, their mums and dads weeping over them,
that Israel's representatives get to sing and dance in a global song contest. It is obscene.
Absolutely disgusted to see Robbie Keane going to manage Maccabi Tel Aviv, a racist club supportive of apartheid Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people. How many Palestinian footballers has Israel murdered and maimed? Shameful.
#BDS
#FreePalestine
Regina Doherty talking about "eight hundred years of common travel with the mainland" is so unbelievably Fine Gael, you don't even need to parody them.
💜 🇵🇸 In 2014, even offered 10 times her usual fee and broke at the time, Sinéad O’Connor cancelled a gig in apartheid Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people. “There’s not a sane person on earth who in any way sanctions what the fuck the Israeli authorities are doing.”
Another brilliant talent has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza: Palestinian goalkeeper Youssef Hamada.
Hamada was part of the Palestine national youth team and Jabalia Youth Club.
He was only 21 years old. Sports world, your silence is deafening
#BanIsraelFromSports
Let's talk about football Robbie Keane. Mohammad Bakr, 11, Ahed Bakr, 10, Zakariya Bakr, 10, Ismail Bakr, 9, murdered by apartheid Israel as they played football on a beach in Gaza. 1st shell killed one child, a second killed the other three while they ran for their lives.
#BDS
“They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable
Not because what I said was wrong
Whatever it may bring
I will live by my own policies
I will sleep with a clear conscience
I will sleep in peace”
Rest in Power Sinead O'Connor 💔
I spent time in the refugee camp in Calais where I met many *single young men*. They were resourceful, kind, incredible survivors. They were also hurt, vulnerable, isolated, lonely, doing their best to live in dignity & take care of their families. Don't hurt them more
#EastWall
What an utter disgrace that the Israeli Ambassador was at today's famine commemoration-the representative of a state under investigation for genocide that is perpetrating forced starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza. Deeply shameful, a total betrayal of our history and our will
@Israel
75 years of ethnic cleansing, mass incarceration, war crimes, dispossession, land theft, colonisation, apartheid, home demolitions, siege and gross racism. All ongoing
#Nakba75
When we brought the children from
#Gaza
to Ireland to play football, Brian Kerr remarked how small they were compared to their Irish peers. They'd lived through brutal Israeli military attacks, under constant siege, power cuts, poverty, fear.
It's not 'politics' Robbie Keane
#BDS
It was a pleasure and honour to march and speak on the same stage as the legendary Karen Gearon, shop steward of the 1984 Dunnes Stores Anti-Apartheid Strike, at our
@ipsc48
National March for
#Palestine
today. As Karen said, why are we still protesting apartheid 40 years on?
Very brave of these Irish Women’s Basketball Team players who won't play apartheid Israel's team on February 8th. Now, as Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in
#Gaza
, more than ever, the boycott call must be respected.
#FreePalestine
It is unacceptable that almost 6 months into genocide in Gaza, RTÉ presenters still don't counter basic Israeli propaganda. When Israeli spokespeople say they have no responsibility for the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, they are lying. As the occupying power they legally do.
Leo Varadkar saying that Joe Biden's "heart is in the right place" when it comes to Gaza is the biggest load of gaslighting bullshit he's ever come out with. Biden is an *active* participant in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. He funds and arms it. This is cover for genocide.
It blows my fucking mind that five months into a genocide, under investigation by the ICJ, repeatedly found to have lied about *everything*, RTÉ News is still trotting out the Israeli military's narrative as if they atlre a credible source instead of serial, genocidal liars.
Disgraceful of
@rtenews
to cover the murder of prominent Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces giving the apartheid government's perspective. Is there no solidarity among journalists? She was wearing a press vest. She was shot in the head.
#FreePalestine
RTÉ must stop allowing the apologists for genocide from the Israeli military on our airwaves to lie, to malign the people they've murdered. The highest court in the world has said Israel is plausibly committing genocide against Palestinians, stop platforming them
@drivetimerte
Hey Robbie Keane, it isn't 'politics', it's people's lives, rights, hopes, freedom - many of them young footballers murdered by the apartheid state you've taken a job in.
#FreePalestine
#BDS
Robbie Keane speaking to media in Israel at the moment - asked about Irish criticism of his decision to take a job there.
"I don’t want to get into politics," he replies. "This is the last time I will say it. I’m here as a football man and someone that loves the game."
We had a great turn out in Limerick again today for our
@ipsc
Vigil for Gaza. All our love and unbreakable solidarity with the Palestinian people.
#FreePalestine
#GazaGenocide
Hi
@DonnellyStephen
I am currently in A&E at UHL Limerick with an elderly, very ill, loved one who has been on a trolley for hours. The trolley is one of ten in a corridor where patients have no privacy, are being treated and disclosing, medical info in public. Zero dignity here
Spyware technologies like
#Pegasus
are at the core of apartheid Israel's surveillance state.
On this Global Day of Action Against Spyware, we are calling on you to join us in demanding
#IsraelOutOfMyPhone
#BanSpyware
.
@rtenews
actually just broadcast an Israeli spokesperson/apologist for genocide who said: "The only people keeping civilians safe right now in Gaza is Israel”. How are these lies still allowed on our airwaves, it is outrageous.
When Margaretta D'Arcy was 79, she was imprisoned for 9 weeks for trying to inspect a US military plane for weapons at Shannon Airport. But racist fascists can attack children, refugees, library workers, public representatives, no problem The Irish state chooses when it mobilises
It blows my fucking mind that Israel's complete destruction of Shifa Hospital is not major news. Patients, doctors, people sheltering, were executed, their hands and feet bound. They were starved, driven over in bulldozers. Unspeakable atrocities against Palestinians in
#Gaza
#Limerick
Saturday 28th October 1pm, Bedford Row! Join us to stand with the Palestinian people and demand an end to apartheid Israel's genocidal bombardment, siege and ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
#GazaGenocide
For sure expelling the Israeli Ambassador would be great but
passing the Occupied Territories Bill, calling for an arms embargo on Israel would be much more meaningful action to sanction Israel for its crimes against the Palestinian people Concrete far-reaching action is required
.
@rtenews
what if I told you that you do not have to give a platform to Israel’s spokespeople to deny and justify their genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. You don't have to let them say that Rafah was an arms corridor for Hamas. You simply do not have to air their lies.
Absolutely disgusting scenes in Roscrea with people screaming abuse at women and kids, at people who have come here seeking safety and protection. Shame on the government and media who have downplayed and facilitated the far right as they attacked refugees.
Look at us now. Awful.
RTÉ doing the 'far left and far right are as bad as each other' horseshoe discourse about the French elections is as predictable as it is brainless and infuriating
Absolutely disgraceful comments from Leo Varadkar on radio today denying that what Israel is practising against the Palestinian people in
#Gaza
is genocide. From WEEK ONE genocide scholars have said it is "text book". Then asking if what happened on October 7th isn't genocide.
No Leo Varadkar, this is not 100 years of "Jews and Arabs fighting over land." It is settler colonialism, occupation, siege, apartheid and now genocide. It is dangerously wrong to portray Israel's 75 years of dispossession and oppression of the Palestinian people as a 'fight.
No Bambie Thug, it is absolutely *not* "solidarity there" for you perform at Eurovision. Palestinians have asked artists to
#BoycottEurovision2024
and that's the only solidarity that will do.
Irish Eurovision entry Bambie Thug has described their decision not to boycott this year's competition over Israel’s controversial participation as ‘bittersweet’ and ‘incredibly heavy’ | Read more:
💜 Well done to these absolute sounders, Clare for all, Ireland for all. Get the racist fascists out of our lives.
"We fear violent vigilantes, NOT asylum seekers."
#IrelandForAll
💔 Our deepest sympathies with our friends at Al Helal Academy
#Gaza
(who came to Ireland twice) on the unbearable loss of star player Atef Mohamed Dabour, murdered in an Israeli airstrike yesterday, with many family members. "He dreamed of being a world soccer star."
@GazaAI1
.
@rtenews
there is *video footage* and eyewitness testimony of Israeli soldiers shooting Palestinians as they waited for food. You simply DO NOT NEED TO act as a stenographer for the Israeli military. You do not need to regurgitate their lies.
#GazaGenocide
No Leo Varadkar, Ireland doesn't see its own history in that of the Israelis. Absolutely ahistorical, brainless gaslighting bullshit. Again. We share a history of settler colonialism with the Palestinian people, we do *not* share being genocidal occupiers like apartheid Israel.
Remember how slow NPHET were to recommend mask wearing at the start of the pandemic? They were wrong then and they're wrong now. Wearing masks costs us nothing and it's how we protect each other, why not keep them longer? This is a terrible decision.
💜 So unbelievably proud of these Irish artists for pulling out of SXSW, refusing to artwash US military & weapons makers, standing in solidarity with Palestine & against apartheid Israel's
#GazaGenocide
They honour our history & anti-apartheid struggle. Salute
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸
So, the Israeli national women's basketball team has:
➡️ posed with armed soldiers, fresh from participating in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
➡️ called the Irish team anti-Semitic
And Basketball Ireland is still going ahead with this fixture with apartheid.
Shameful
The Irish Freedom Party came to Limerick today to speak to an audience of......*no-one*.
And we drowned their hate out with chants for Trans rights, women's rights, love for refugees, and of course 'Nazi scum off our streets.' I love my Limerick anti-fascist fam. 💜🏳️⚧️
It's actually incredible that nine and a half months into Israel's genocide in Gaza, where it commits daily massacres, that
@rtenews
is *still* saying "the Hamas-run Health Ministry."
We dedicated our
@ipsc48
rally for Palestine in Limerick today to Hind Rajab, aged 6, murdered by apartheid Israel. And to Yousef Zeino and Ahmad al-Madhoun, the ambulance crew who went to rescue her, also murdered. What will it take for our government to act?
#GazaGenocide
Hey
@rtenews
what if I told you that you do not have to act as a stenographer for the Israeli military or share its laughable, dangerous propaganda. You could actually report the news, like a maternity ward bombed, snipers shooting people in a church, Israel burying people alive
Paschal O'Donohue calling Varadkar "a man of the highest standards" - he is under criminal investigation, he is unfit for office. Get these people out of government please.
#todaycb
So there's the Israeli national women's basketball team posing with soldiers, guns and all. Ahead of its Eurobasket fixture against Ireland, the Israeli women's team met with soldiers from the 'Cheetahs unit' who have participated in the genocidal campaign in Gaza.
#GazaGenocide
I'd like to report a murder happening live on
#rtept
Sarah McInerney is crushing the biggest spoofer in Ireland, Stephen Donnelly, into dust.
(If only the gardai would pick up the phone)
After 6 months held without charges, Prof. Barghouti is finally free! He is on his way to Ramallah where his family is waiting to welcome him.
We celebrate his release, but these images touch us deeply. Prof. Barghouti lost an alarming amount of weight and appears to be very weak
En route to Dublin for our
@ipsc48
National Demonstration for Palestine. Come out today, 1pm, Garden of Remembrance, to show solidarity and to demand action from our government to end apartheid Israel's
#GazaGenocide
#FreePalestine
! 🇵🇸
Limerick came out for Palestine again today. Week after week, we show our solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Gaza and the West Bank and demand an end to
#GazaGenocide
and our government to sanction apartheid Israel. We demand a
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸
Shannon Airport a sea of Palestinian flags as activists occupied the terminal & later at the barricade we spoke of our solidarity with the Palestinian people & our objection to our airport being used by the US military. Are arms going to Israel? They refuse to inspect the planes
A NEW LOW for
@rtenews
Showing footage of a building being bombed in Gaza with the Israeli military's *own caption* "strike on Hamas terror tunnel shaft", "strike on a Hamas terrorist". To convey the propaganda of a state committing genocide, proven liars, is an absolute disgrace
🇵🇸 Great turn out in Limerick today to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to demand a
#CeasefireNOW
and an end to apartheid Israel's genocidal bombardment of Gaza. And for the Irish government to finally take action. The streets are with Palestine!
#GazaGenocide
Why is the meeting between Norma Foley, public health officials, teaching unions and school management only happening tomorrow, the day before schools are supposed to go back?
Why are we being 'informed' about nine more weeks of level 5 in a newspaper interview released at 10 pm
@MichealMartinTD
? Why can't you display even a shred of respect for us?
Irish media is a huge part of the growth of the far right & emboldening of fascists here by their consistent refusal to call it what it is. And by giving platforms to racists like K Hopkins, P Casey, alt right bigots. This is a critical moment that needs responsible journalism
Tonight while apartheid Israel gets to artwash its genocide of the Palestinian people on the Eurovision stage, this is the message I got from one of the young footballers we brought to Ireland from Gaza a few years ago. This is why we boycott Israel and
#BoycottEurovision2024
All the Irish universities that stayed silent during Israel’s genocide will publish papers and hold conferences about it when there's enough distance. For the Palestinians, for human dignity, we cannot let that happen.
The presenter on
@morningireland
said: "Hamas which is deemed a terrorist organisation by the US and the EU" followed by: "the Hamas run Health Ministry said.." but they *never* preface Israel with: "is under investigation for genocide by the ICJ".
Language matters. Framing...
Today in Limerick I was called
A communist (✔️)
A globalist (WTF)
An anti-white racist (🤷♀️)
A shill on Soros' payroll (HMU)
All by a lone fascist loser on his little megaphone. We ran him. No tolerance for racist fascists in our city.
I cannot believe the atrocities Israel is committing against the Palestinians in Gaza, in full view of the world, with no consequences, no stop, being funded, armed and greenlighted. The fucking depravity of the 'international community', My god.
Do Irish journalists not see the same videos of massacres in Gaza as we do? How can they continue to report the Israeli military and government lies about protecting civilians and following international law? It's incredible.
#GazaGenocide
So the
#Limerick
yellow vest anti-lockdown, anti-mask "march" and "rally" was a COMPLETE FLOP, with only 12 people turning up. They were far outnumbered by anti-fascists ✊🏽
Fight
#racism
#fascism
No pasaran
The entire street outside has been closed off. This sort of massive Garda operation to prevent empty buildings being used is an utter disgrace and a great example of how this state values property over the people of Ireland.
RTÉ stop talking about Israel as a vaccination model. It is breaking international law, the Geneva Convention, by excluding the Palestinian people that it occupies. It's illegal, immoral, it's
#MedicalApartheid
Ignoring this is gross racism.
#rtept
Why on earth should a consultant in infectious diseases have to argue against some randomer who refuses to accept scientific fact, as if both positions are equally valid? Claire Byrne Live truly is the bottom of the barrel
#cblive
I am so sick of the Irish government saying they can't take even miniscule action to sanction apartheid Israel because of 'alienating liberals', 'keeping channels open'. If the genocide of the Palestinian people is the result of 'diplomacy' then they can absolutely shut it down
What do you think about your new country of employment now Robbie Keane as it bombs a refugee camp, killing Palestinians, including children, indiscriminately?
#JeninUnderAttack
💜 Look at these brilliant people! There's been a lot of great mobilising across Limerick and Clare against the floating fash. We won't let these racist fascists come to our counties to harm people unchallenged. The Ship of Fools can fuck off forever.