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[Jamaica Observer @JamaicaObserver]

Thomas Gould, the Irish politician who recently captured global attention because of his distinctive accent, says he has been overwhelmed by the volume of messages received from social media users worldwide, particularly from Jamaica.

Gould, a member of Sinn Féin, went viral after a speech he delivered in the Irish parliament in early January began circulating across social media platforms.
https://t.co/SiZFWkvOLw

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

What I learnt 30 years ago while working for the Guardian's foreign desk was this:

No articles were allowed – whether reports from the occupied territories or from inside Israel – that indicated there were inherent problems with the notion of Israel as a Jewish state, or questioned the paper's assumption that a state defining itself in ethno-religious terms could also be a democracy.

This was the unspoken editorial formula:

* Articles suggesting that the occupied territories were a gangrenous limb that needed amputating – ok.

* Articles suggesting that the illegal occupation was a natural outgrowth of a highly militarised state, driven by an expansionist ideology of Jewish supremacy that necessarily dehumanises Palestinians – not ok.

That is the reason the Guardian, like so many others, has struggled to come to terms with Israel’s genocide in Gaza over the past two years.

Genocide, and the overwhelming support for it among Israeli Jews, hints at a sickness within the Israeli state itself and the ideology of Zionism. That dark underbelly of ethnic nationalism cannot simply be amputated, like a gangrenous toe. The whole body politic is infected. A holistic, root-and-branch solution is needed, as it was with apartheid South Africa. A process of decolonisation must be instituted, a programme of truth and reconciliation is required.

This is an extract from my latest article. Read the rest in the reply post below ⬇️

[Bob Vylan @BobbyVylan]

What a waste of time. @LindadeCourcy didn’t even show up to the proceedings that she brought about. No hard feelings though, your name will be on the guest list +1, bring Ken Flynn. You two can enjoy yourselves.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Whatever you think of the BBC today is a bleak, bleak day for British broadcasting. The Trump gaffe was poor - but it happened a year ago, and no-one in Trump's team had noticed.

Equally worrying, Prescott clearly had an agenda where coverage of Gaza was concerned. His principal criticism of BBC Arabic was that it wasn't similar enough to BBC English - which, by any objective, purely journalistic criteria is a good thing.

Today's events lay bare the immense pressures operating behind the scenes and help explain why the BBC's coverage of Gaza has been so abject over the last 2 years. It'll now get worse.

Ironic this should happen on same day this excruciating video emerges of Mossad fan boy Raffi Berg. Yes - this really is the person who has been BBC Online's Middle East News Editor throughout the assault on Gaza.

[Fritz Schnackenpfefferhausen 🇵🇸 @CreamyBeamish]

@igeldard @IrishTimes Have you read the article? There are five mentions of Russia. Try giving reading a go some time

[Erik Dale 🇳🇴 @EuroDale]

"In Russia, you would be arrested", von der Leyen tells a protestor as he's being arrested.

[Edmund Griffiths @EdmundGriffiths]

The state broadcaster is purging officials who accidentally let a dissident appear on air
https://t.co/yK7G77nh69

[Fritz Schnackenpfefferhausen 🇵🇸 @CreamyBeamish]

@mactre4217421 @TuathaIreland @bbboatclub *indentured servants

[Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa]

Israel is explaining, with fully transparency, how they are navigating the international "rules-based" order to get away with genocide. They recognize that extermination in one fell swoop might trigger international intervention, so they normalize it by carrying it out strategically - "responsibly."

[Fritz Schnackenpfefferhausen 🇵🇸 @CreamyBeamish]

@gavreilly It's based on astronomy, not the weather

[Keanu Nazari 📕 @KeanuNazari]

May our kids re-enact the fall of Tel Aviv one day like they celebrate today in Vietnam.

Exactly 50 years ago, the US empire was defeated with the takeover of Saigon. Happy reunification day 🇻🇳

[Molly🎧🏳️‍🌈 @RasberryRazz]

One of my favorite Simpsons jokes. I even say "I will" with the same deadpan inflection Al Gore does.

[Paulie Doyle @BigPaulieDoyle]

Overwhelmingly, the people leading the charge to degrade Irish neutrality are:
- Lobbyists for the arms industry
- Europhile politicians who want a pat on the head from Brussels
- Weird NATO-loving rugby dads who spend their spare time looking at tanks and fighter jets

[Ciarán Nugent @ciarannugent]

The Irish rental market is the most profitable in the world.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“Having probes inserted up his rectum by female IDF who claimed the probe was soaked in pork blood.”

Dr. Perlmutter (@mperlmuttermd), an American volunteer doctor in Gaza, says Israeli forces brutally tortured his Palestinian colleague, an orthopedic surgeon. They crushed his fingers, threatened him with the gang rape of his wife, and female Israeli security officers raped him — because he refused to lie and say he was a member of Hamas.

[Fritz Schnackenpfefferhausen 🇵🇸 @CreamyBeamish]

@ByYourLogic Up Cork

[Seán Mac an tSíthigh @Buailtin]

“Irish is a dead language!”

Listen to Misha Yerhidzé, a 10 year old Ukranian boy who fled the war with his mother just over two years ago and settled in Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, in the West Kerry Gaeltacht. He has embraced the language and music of his new community.