this is such horrific stuff

Am I missing anything

Hey if you're in Dublin tomorrow come help us yell at the government to pass the Occupied Territory Bill :)

Advocating for Palestine will get you called an antisemite no matter what but I disagree with the notion this means we don't have a duty of care in how we speak about it - We have a duty to make those accusations look as ridiculous as possible

Will O’Callaghan’s envisioned race to the bottom with the UK on asylum seeker mistreatment include their new policy of stealing vulnerable people’s valuables www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

And this is why you need to make sure your pension fund invests ethically. It's not just for the good of people, it's for yourself too! (When cloudfare works again I will add a link to a form letter you can use to get your pension fund to divest from Israeli companies)

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Is there an exact proportion of diasporic Jewish support for Israel at which the moral justifiability of their treatment of Palestinians changes? And if there isn't, why do we ascribe so much importance to that proportion?

I hear in Albo's woke Australia they make people call them the summer lights and summer trees

It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.

One thing I wanna push Jewish solidarity groups on is changing the standard response to institutional zionist Judaism from 'not all Jews support this' to 'it doesn't matter how many Jews support this'

Important to remember for Palestinians there is no standard of behavior, no numerical tallying of condemnations of antisemitism, that will ever protect them as individuals from efforts to drive them out of public life

Thinking of this again

The multi-lingual, multi-denominational inaugeration of Catherine Connolly is great and entirely in keeping with the vision of Ireland's original constitution

Lotta people wanted to send this assemblege of GB-news brainworms to be our EU representative

Did you notice the 'ceasefire' being utter fiction didn't prevent it being used to quietly squash all the boycott initiatives? They even called off the vote to keep Israel out of Eurovision

Not easy to make Varadkar's "people who get up early in the morning" retrospectively look like deft, well crafted messaging but fair play to Reform they've managed it

Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is trying to use his name to convince Wikipedia editors to deny the Gaza Genocide, recognized by many human rights organizations. Although he's not seizing control, this is an extreme attempt to sway Wikipedia content in violation of its founding principles.

Weirdly both Eva and Naomi came from the same urge on the right a couple of years ago to try find an answer to Greta Thunberg. There were a couple of attempts at this, many very unsuccessful

Seibt claiming asylum in the U.S. in particular is so baffling to me. Girl your entire income comes from talking about Germany how are you gonna do that when you can’t even go back to visit without violating your asylum terms!

Kinda fascinating the way seemingly every European country now has their own collection of right wing e-grifters selling doom narratives to an almost exclusively American audience

It's very enlightening to move to Ireland from the U.S. because it's such a small country with very socially conscious & kind people and it's mind blowing to see this type of incitement and manipulation from outside agitators work here as well (not as well as everywhere else, but they're not immune)

Finishing Blindsight having not read a lot of sci-fi is so strange cus on top of all the end page thoughts and feelings you realise there could be lots more as-phenomenal sci-fi out there you've ignored but equally as sad there might not be?

Protest for Palestine today! 5.30 Department of Foreign Affairs

I think part of Catherine Connolly's success that isn't really being covered is that she is firmly, at every turn, very proud to be Irish. She learned Irish as an adult, she actively enjoys our cultural heritage, her campaign embraced our traditional art forms and trad music.

possibly elder abuse that we’re making Sindo readers learn what ‘chudmaxxing’ means

A tiny Jewish population in Ireland alongside a growing cadre of deranged antisemitic obsessives means anyone with an even a minor platform risks ugly hyperfixations. I know people who barely have public profiles who have come in for hate speech and even violent threats.

There is little unique or distinctive about Irish racism and antisemitism. The speech motifs in this article are immediately familiar to anyone globally who’s seen online hate speech. Its one big chud soup and we’re just floating around in it archive.ph/lvF2Y

This lad didn’t learn to talk like that in his local, his GAA club or his church. He picked it up online and decided out of all the subcultures this was the one to model himself on

Antisemitism should by all rights be a barely discussed issue in Ireland, the preserve of European history nerds and fascism scholars. Unfortunately for both the few thousand of us here and the country there’s a growing radicalised set with an entire worldview centred around it

As I have repeatedly hammered to the extent antisemitism is a risk in Ireland its not coming from the Church or Palestine demos it’s the global largely online far right influencer networks just like seemingly every other country on earth

I'm a real sicko who loves voting but even I have to admit it was something of a relief to just 1-and-done the thing instead of figuring how far down I'm gonna go ranking the 20 odd candidates

As I've poimted out numerous times recently, the Irish political establishment has no idea how to deal with the nascent threat of the far right, instinctively taking the wrong option every single time. Connelly was an independent who did the work, got on the ballot, and won. The far right did not.

How many times do they have to tell us who they are before we believe them? m.independent.ie/irish-news/a...

It begins ✍️

the brit columnist responses to Connolly are gonna be a ride eh

so it turns out the 'depressed turnout' was largely Humphreys voters throwing in the towel

Irish general elections: Staid, boring, predictable, height of excitement sheets of paper falling off a podium Irish Presidential elections: tumultuous maelstrom of twists, scandals, and embittered passions that leaves the participants and the nation irrevocably changed

Congrats to @paulmurphy.pbp.ie the official campaign manager of Catherine Connolly. You did a great job

Phil Sutcliffe, Dublin county councillor, and former boxer should have been hit in the head less (or more)

Yes Catherine Connolly has some kooky ideas but it’s important to keep in mind that she’s from Galway

A rare direct meeting between Fatah and Hamas took place yesterday in Cairo on formulating a unified Palestinian position towards the postwar government of Gaza

Say what you like about Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael you don’t maintain power in a country for over a century without being capable of running an at least somewhat competent political campaigns this parade of rake stepping really is unprecedented

David James Cleary might jave escaped justice but we will not allow him to pass into anonymity. We have your name, the British state can't take it from us

lmfao, holy fucking shit

A reminder of who soldier F is. Michael Mansfield’s autobiography has his full examination of him at the Saville enquiry.

Respect to the Irish News for linking to Hansard on their live feed and confirming Soldier F's name can be read there despite the anonymity order

Every month or two Ezra Levant shows up at an Irish racism-mob gathering to get positive coverage for his americanada audience and gets a load antismeitic threats and abuse from them and then he goes and does it all over again

If Fine Gael are aware they’re losing surely they’re also aware this is most likely the start of 7-14 years of a mandated professional relationship with her