Utter scumbag

UN report on the situation in the West Bank, October 2025 only: -260 settler attacks (average 8 per day), highest number since the UN started recording in 2006 -140 Palestinians injured -150 attacks on olive harvesting -4,200 olive trees vandalised in 77 villages www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...

A Jewish Israeli volunteer who was assisting olive harvest in the West Bank, and a Palestinian first responder, bothlynched by settlers today.

From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏

Much of this applies to Ireland too observer.co.uk/news/columni...

It was great to talk with friends at @jewishcurrents.bsky.social on Nick Fuentes & rising anti-Zionism on the Right. Why is the Right fracturing over Israel right now? What do we do when they weave in unmistakable antisemitism, with real critique of Israel's genocide & repression of speech?

Republican Congress, 5 November 1935

You can't tackle antisemitism by quietly disinviting individuals - especially if these people have a mass following. The "rotten apple" approach never works - especially if you're not even willing to say it's rotten. You need to talk about it, explain, educate.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign defended Miller in 2021, but decided earlier this year not to platform him (you can find his rants about it). That's good, better late than never. However they haven't said about this publicly, which is bad. The guy thinks calling out swastikas is zionism.

Well worth reading, as always, by Paddy Mulroe theborderkitchen.blog/letters-of-p...

One of the Irish left's biggest clowns (though humoured by some) made a big step towards this position today by writing for what passes for Irish fascism's intellectual journal.

I assume there are quite a few Palestinian activists who have Zohran Mamdani's number. That kind of access to power is a new and positive development. It's not sufficient for anything, it doesn't guarantee anything, but it's a necessary one.

It was predictable that many liberal Zionists would oppose anti-Zionism’s “political normalization” in the NYC mayoral race. The more surprising story of the campaign is not liberal Zionist opposition to Mamdani, but their support, @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes. jewishcurrents.org/mamdani-crea...

it was so sweet of the NY post to make a special commemorative issue

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

Re-posting for the Mamdani result- New York's socialists got there in the end ...

Was proud to sign this with colleagues in the successful campaign to resist collaboration with Minzu university at UCC. Whatever the point of departure (and BDS is the most organised and resonnant atm) end goal should be human rights proofing of all calloborations www.irishtimes.com/news/educati...

Mention of Morris Hillquit reminds me; the Irish Progressive League supported him in 1917, leading figure Peter Golden speaking here with Padraic Colum and Hillquit himself

"A socialist immigrant running for mayor on an anti-war, pro–working class platform divides New York’s Jews over whether his campaign, and potential victory, might stoke antisemitism. The year isn’t 2025, and the man isn’t Zohran Mamdani. It’s 1917, and Jewish labor lawyer Morris Hillquit."

81 Palestinians died in Israeli custody in the last two years, due to torture and neglect. Since 7th October 2023, Israeli prisons have become an instrument of mass torture on unprecedented level. There are currently over 11 thousands Palestinians in those prisons, most of them held without charge.

Oh look, once they figured they'd done enough handwringing, the government has very quickly demonstrated that they have learned absolutely fucking nothing from the events in Drogheda, just like every other time

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Heavy Chinese investment in lots of Irish universities as well, a subject both universities, and some activists, are pretty coy about

Translation of a very valuable German text on the twin dangers of trivialisation and generalisation surrounding anti-Muslim racism and Islamist antisemitism in Germany:

This man’s social media platform… which he uses to pump this garbage into our society… continues to be used by the Irish Government, its agencies, media organisations and journalists, universities, politicians and business/union leaders. Leave X now.

My grandpa (an ex-railwayman) always used to speak about the importance of having train guards. As a woman, I've always recognised their importance. I really hope that next time there is a strike, the government has second thoughts about saying how irrelevant they are, especially after yesterday.

Twitter right now is a fetid swamp of creeps trying the excuse the attempted murder of infant children in Drogheda

Worth revisiting what I wrote in 2022 after Trump dined with Nick Fuentes. As I said then, all of this was foreseeable: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

What’s behind Israel’s new plan to divide Gaza in two While Trump hails "peace," Israel is entrenching a new regime of fortified borders, proxy rule, and engineered despair — with expulsion still the end goal. www.972mag.com/trump-israel...

This is reminiscent of when the PSNI called the riots in Ballymena "racist thuggery" but the airwaves were swamped with politicians doing the "legitimate concerns" bit. Lads, neither the Garda nor the PSNI are rabid leftists. If they're telling you to pump the brakes, you know you're out there.

If a PBP TD said that there were too many foxhunters in Ireland and then there was a arson attack on a hunting lodge that night, you can be damn sure that Simon Harris could join the dots. He really should resign.

Collison's piece is a prescription for a bonfire of regulations intended to increase margins for developers, at the low, low price of stuffing people into accommodation they themselves wouldn't keep their dog in. So of course they love it.

This is worse than even the initial reports and statement from the Justice Minister suggested. www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Fundraiser for the families affected by the arson attack last night in Drogheda. Genuine organisers, please donate or share around if you can. #speirgorm #drogheda gofund.me/d75de7ee9

“These future leaders of the right aren’t going anywhere; they’ll be taking the reins soon, and there’s little room for the ‘Judeo’ in their vision of the Christian West.” My latest in @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/whit...

It's striking to see people on the supposed pro-Palestine left struggle to understand that "the right for self-determination" means Palestinians should decide on their future

This, Bashir Abu-Manneh in Jacobin only three weeks ago. jacobin.com/2025/10/pale...

An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana, by Galina Rymbu - a Ukrainian anarchist on the bad geopolitics Zarah’s been listening to leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

I have already ended up in a argument today with someone saying I shouldn't assume it was a far-right fire attack on an IPAS centre (following a number of far-right fire attacks on IPAS centres) because it was probably "kids messing with fireworks" so this is worth hammering home I think

Jim seems genuinely upset and confused that caving to the far right on immigration has not placated the far right. This is because, like many politicians, he genuinely doesn't understand what he's dealing with

I’ve lost count of the number arson attacks on IPAS centres or even buildings *suspected* of being IPAS. Between 2018-2023 there were at least 25. I suspect the number in the last 2 years may be close to that. We’re not lucky it’s a minor miracle that no one has killed yet

Yes.

Apropos of recent comments by the Taoiseach and Tánaiste: In September (the most recent data available), 44% of asylum decisions resulted in the applicant being considered eligible for international protection. It is presently taking the State around 17 months to process a standard application.

If you're one of The Adults In The Room™ in Ireland you can be on a fat state pension in your 40's while arguing for welfare cuts, go bankrupt running a bookies, FF will still pay you to banjax their presidential run, and you'll still be invited on the airwaves to talk shite forever archive.ph/Tjnk0

Gaza Health Ministry reports 226 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since the three-week cease-fire began, with another 594 wounded and 499 bodies recovered from war rubble during that period www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-11...