Reactions to 'Britcard'

Brian Feeney on unionism's antipathy towards equality:

Spot on from @tcollins.bsky.social

Superiority complex (from Irish News)

Free Marwan Barghouti (from Observer)

UN Commission: "The responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies with Israeli authorities at the highest echelons who have orchestrated a genocidal campaign for almost two years now with the specific intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza."

UN Commission: "The responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies with Israeli authorities at the highest echelons who have orchestrated a genocidal campaign for almost two years now with the specific intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza." www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

'High level' UN Gen Assembly meetings begin next Monday (22 Sept). Int human rights lawyer and former UN official @CraigMokhiber argues that genocide in Palestine can be stopped using the Uniting for Peace mechanism to bypass any Security Council veto: mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...

"I was shouting ‘down with Balfour’,” says the wealthy industrialist, referring to the 1917 Balfour declaration, a promise by the British government to Zionists to help them establish a Jewish homeland on the land where Israel now stands. “And then they shot me.”

English right attack Good Friday Agreement

"It’s not really that difficult to get your head around why people in Derry would be opposed to the British armed forces peddling their wares at a jobs fair."

"Hilary Benn, like all British secretaries, is captive to the advice and control of Britain’s intelligence services. In effect, no matter what his initial intentions were, he has been nobbled." Mark Thompson - essential reading on legacy

Oh look, it’s this gobshite again. 💀 Here’s another take down / explainer ✍🏼💭 #Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #NigelFarage #ReformUK #Britain #Brexit 🔗 shorturl.at/CABxT

"Black applicants are more than twice as likely to be denied a US mortgage as white counterparts declaring the same incomes, according to a Financial Times analysis of public data that shows people of colour still face hurdles to home ownership despite laws aimed at ending such disparities."

Kitty O'Brien: "The video of me being beaten went viral because I’m white, but the violence I experienced is just a drop in the ocean compared to what my Palestinian, Arab and other racialised comrades have endured at the hands of the German state police over the past two years.”

A bake sale for Palestine down the N'Ards Road has pulled out of East Belfast because of threats 🙃🙃🙃

Carbon capture set to be less useful in tackling climate change, scientists warn. British govt has committed £21.7bn to this initially, which will become £264bn by 2050. on.ft.com/3V0vrwe

Sumud flotilla: 'All eyes must remain on Gaza'. (Irish Times letter)

Ex-EU officials recommend: "Prohibiting data centres and platforms based in Europe from receiving, storing or treating data originating from Israeli government or commercial sources relating to the Israeli government’s presence and activities in Gaza and elsewhere in the occupied territories.”

An important update from Francesca Albanese, special UN Rapporteur on Palestine. The flotilla fully complies with International Law. Any attempt to violate the flotilla’s mission is a violation of International Law which @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has said she will uphold. Empty words, Ursula?

New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye. The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza

US bars Palestinian leader Abbas and 80 officials from annual UN meeting as allies pledge statehood

Prof Bill Rolston on Ireland and Palestine: the roots of resonance. Race and Class open access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Irish Unity: Prof Colin Harvey arguing that we must ditch the notion that "a British Secretary of State will awaken one day and benevolently trigger a referendum after absorbing the latest polling evidence over breakfast. That is not how it will work."

"It is depressing how much EU and UK leadership has lost its moral compass when it comes to direct action against the Israeli regime. Now is the time for a real response, and where it hurts. Stop the renewal of the bonds and enact the Occupied Territories Bill." (Irish Times letter)

Irish reunification: Prof Brendan O'Leary interviewed by DW News youtube.com/watch?v=3fjX...

Irish reunification: Prof Brendan O'Leary interviewed by DW News youtube.com/watch?v=3fjX...

Law for Palestine maintains a database of nearly 500 cases of genocidal intent and incitement by Israeli govt officials, military personnel and public figures. It's here: intent.law4palestine.org

Starvation, pure and simple

Half of race rioters in the North of Ireland are also domestic abusers

@jjn1.bsky.social 'This isn’t about mundane stuff such as return on investment, but about something much grander: world domination, or words to that effect.'

Great discussion this monring. Exploring what a just, sustainable, rights-based new Ireland could look like. And doing that together, regardless of background.

Ireland awakens to the risk of relying on US investment on.ft.com/458GQOX

Israelis write: 'The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire.'

Derry, yesterday. Each square represents 10 children killed in Gaza.

'When he heard what The Irish Times saw in Sderot, Prof Bartov said it reminded him “of what the Germans called in the second World War ‘execution tourism’, ie touring and photographing (as souvenirs) one’s own atrocities”.'

Now where have we heard this before? Deny, delete and delay: the secrecy operation inside special forces

"What we are seeing here cannot even properly be called neocolonialism, so naked is the exploitation, so grim the equation of stolen land and private wealth. It is really just good old fashioned original-style colonialism." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Keir Starmer found the time to speak about an Irish band playing Glastonbury, making interventions that exerted huge political pressure..Why did he not have anything to say about the premeditated, explicit and threatening racism on display in Moygashel last week? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Full FT report on Tony Blair Institute and the 'Gaza Riviera' project.

From FT - the privatisation of ethnic cleansing

Keir Starmer used to defend peace protestors. Now he calls them terrorists. What happened ? My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/la...

Richard Norton-Taylor on the Pal Action ban due to be announced on Monday www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...

Former chief constable calls the decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group "a disgrace". Proscribe "the terror group known as the Israeli Defense Forces" instead.

Irish Times letter: The EU foreign ministers must act with decisiveness today.

The moral and legal bankruptcy of unionism summed up in this front page headline from today's News Letter

New hope for NYC

"The Centre for Media Monitoring @cfmmuk calls for an independent public review of the BBC’s Gaza reporting. This report is evidence-based, rigorous & damning. The BBC must reform." DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT HERE 📄 cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Full report cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/u... x.com/cfmmuk/statu...

Ireland (N&S) take note