As the world watched the Euros Israel did this….
They BOMBED KIDS playing football in a refugee camp at a school in Gaza.
Murdering children as they played a game.
FUCK ISRAEL
Never forget that international human rights law is just a tool for Western countries - a construct of colonial power they justify to slaughter others but never to actually protect people.
When her second cup was taking on the night air, she rose, embraced us all and strode away into the fog-dimmed streetlights.
We sat there the four of us and variously expressed the same thing. What an amazing woman.
Peace be with your courageous heart Sinéad.
O’Connor was a maverick artist, who never compromised her personal integrity or artistry, who was often ridiculed, and deemed the mad Irish women who shaved her head, who spoke up for minorities, criticised the church for child abuse coverups, Magdalene laundries (which she had direct experience of), and Ireland’s fight for abortion rights.
These causes and beliefs are now mainstream but at the time, O’Connor was openly mocked for pointing out the abuses of power (especially in America, where she refused to allow the National Anthem to play before her concert) further fuelling an anti-patriotism sentiment around the Irish artist, that fundamentally altered her pop career, one that she never wanted anyway.
“I’m not a pop star. I’m just a troubled soul who needs to scream into mikes now and then.”
Sinead O’Connor was a protest singer, first and foremost.
Never in my life have I been prouder to be Australian than when I heard a pub full of people erupt into cheers after seeing a 10 year old English boy crying in the crowd.