Geoffrey Kron

Associate Professor, Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria, democracy & social equality, ancient and modern, ancient multiculturalism, anti-racism

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

You’re a psychologist so it should be easy for you to find professional help from a colleague. Tell the therapist that when someone says “Palestinians exist” you hear “venom & poisonous hatred” and suffer from delusions of grandeur in which you issue deportation orders.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

And that apparently is not the worst of him -
The only thing worse than preying on children is slaughtering them .

[Sangel 🪽 @sahmetkiz]

This manhole in Haifa is older than the state of Israel 😆

[Abier @abierkhatib]

I’m glad that the biggest internal threat to Israel’s apartheid system is its own younger Jewish generation.

[𝓢𝓸𝓷 𝓜𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓮𝔂𝔂 @SonMickeyy]

Dessin toujours aussi vrai aujourd'hui.

[David @OxytocinDAVID]

FINNEAS COOKED HIM LMAOOO

[Hannah Graham @DrHannahGraham]

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered...
#RefugeesWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Michael Gove - editor of the Spectator, Orwell Prize judge & overseer of the biggest electoral fraud in modern UK history - apparently upset that I called out his boss’s investment in Palantir after he ran a sycophantic pro-Palantir piece

[Geoffrey Kron @GeoffreyKron]

@Kellyceeee I don't think he can trust UMG, also now that he is out of his deal it would be good to test his independent power before considering Major label bids. He financed his roll-out himself, spending 15 million apparently just to 'ice out' the CN Tower.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Dearborn has become the first city in the United States to host the “Wall of Tears,” a 100-foot-long outdoor mural honoring 18,457 children killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

The good people in Belfast came out in force to protest against the far-right.

[Willem Moore @willem_moore_uk]

I wrote this - I think he’ll struggle to make a case for his income or reputation being damaged given that his income is reliant on him begging for money on the back of doing racist things

[kosh @KOSHvsEVERYBODY]

Molly Santana really a Drake stan

[Geoffrey Kron @GeoffreyKron]

@Kellyceeee I hope Drake has been assembling a radio team and a legal team to be able to match UMG's lobbying or at least counter it. His lyrics about going radio active & being 2 hot 4 the radio show he's very conscious of the games being played. He should be more aggressive at pop soon.

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

🇮🇪The Refugees is a poem written by Bobby Sands while he was imprisoned in the Maze Prison Long Kesh,
It recounts the forced displacement of Catholics and Nationalists in Belfast during the August 1969 pogroms describing their harrowing escape to the Gormanstown Co Meath refugee camp.
The poem paints a vivid, sorrowful picture of families fleeing their homes under threat of violence.
Gormanstown invokes sad memories for many Irish families..

"The Refugees" 🇮🇪
By Bobby Sands 👇

A hurried worried people, a human stampede to God knows where,
Were spat out from the back streets, for God knows who to care.

Their little kitchen houses lit up the night around about
‘For God and Ulster’ was the reason that the refugees were driven out.

Oh little humble homes where the people hugged the open fire,
Oil-clothed floors and little ornamented cabinets that the neighbours would admire

The little backyard havens where the youngsters would play
And in the hall the little font of holy water to bless you on your way!

They were little narrow streets where the door was never closed,
Where the characters and folklore were born and not composed

And where by the street lamp by the corner
The children made a swing
In a concrete jungle were the hoker was the king.

Oh a kindly people, too clannish were they not,
A simple cup of tea or the milkman’s price, were things that weren’t forgot

And when there was trouble sure didn’t all of them muck in,
Wouldn’t every man amongst them go out and get stuck in.

Ah sure some returned; others?
God knows where they’ve gone,
Driven out in terror by that bigoted orange throng.

‘Tis well I recall those hurried worried people, their little mansions burnt down,
As I watched them go in their thousands on the road to Gormanstown.

[Geoffrey Kron @GeoffreyKron]

@Keir_Starmer

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Trevor Philips is neither sharp nor fearless: he is one of many second-raters who are being given rapid promotion by Bari Weiss because of his long record of making hostile comments about Muslims (for which he was suspended by Labour, until Keir Starmer, who shares his views, cancelled the enquiry) as well for justifying Israel's mass-slaughter of Palestinians. On the contrary, there is now no quicker route to advancement than to espouse such prejudices and to air them in sink holes like the Telegraph

[Oscar Rickett @oscarrickettnow]

As Belfast burned this week, a group of women - including some from Sudan - organised to evacuate threatened families from their home. They did it without any help from the state.

I met them. Link below

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

1. I did. On live national TV, Newsnight, days ago.
2. Do you think beheadings need to be banned too, like Cleese? Do you think they’re *legal* right now? If so you’re the ‘fucking moron,’ obviously.
3. Did you “condemn” this attempted beheading by a white person?
No? Why not?

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

England’s World Cup kit gets stolen in Kansas City.

Now imagine the exact same thing happened in Qatar, Brazil or South Africa.

The outrage would be wall-to-wall.

Questions about security.
Questions about the host nation. Questions about whether the tournament should even be there.

Why does the US always seem to get a free pass when it comes to safety and security concerns?