Liverpool Irish Socialists 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

Independent Irish Socialists in Liverpool and Merseyside/ Soisialaithe Eireannacha i Learpholl/الاشتراكيون الايرلنديون في ليفربول 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

[Liverpool Irish Socialists 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @LivIrishLab]

At the start of Labour Party Conference in Liverpool to demand an end to the British government's material support for genocide in Palestine.

The slaughter in Gaza has to be stopped. Israel's mad-dog terror regime has to be stopped

#StopGenocide #StopStarvingGaza #FreePalestine

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

1 in 20 Catholic families were burned out of their homes in Belfast in 1969.

As one scholar put it, at the time it was "the largest forced population movement in Western Europe since the Second World War."

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Elon Musk can say what he likes about me but I won't stay silent whilst foreign tech billionaires, money earned off the backs of real workers, try to interfere in our democracy, incite violence in our communities and tear apart our country.

Time for him to pipe down.

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

wild how we went from claiming that society is too scared about being called racist last week to white nationalist pogroms on the streets this week

[Gerry Adams @GerryAdamsSF]

Last nights incident in Belfast is no excuse for tonights rascist attacks. Rascists are exploiting mostly young people without thought for the consequences. People deserve better. Say no to rascism.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This is the kind of thing that was said about the Jews in the 1930s.

It is not hyperbolic to say that degrading an entire culture leads us to a very dark place. Reform are playing with fire right now trying to stop themselves being outflanked by the extremists of Restore.

[Y @tinscognito__]

Thinking about this cracking tweet today

[Sarah @Sarahjdublin]

The anti Israel propaganda that consists of literally just letting settlers speak

[Mary Lou McDonald @MaryLouMcDonald]

Ireland must not play Israel at any venue - moving the game doesn’t address the reality that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.

@FAIreland

#StopTheGame

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The Israeli army shot dead a 7-month-old Palestinian baby in the West Bank.

It was in broad daylight.

The father says:

"I stopped as I was instructed to, and then they simply shot at the car."

Israel routinely kills babies - and the West is silent.

[Michael Pierse @michaelpierse]

As the 80th anniversary of the bombing of British troops at the King David Hotel by Israelis approaches, British loyalists will be celebrating Israel. 91 people, 28 of them British citizens, now forgotten?

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

For any British viewer, watching these Irish commentators explain why it is important for Ireland to boycott a football match against Israel is like being thrust into an alternate universe. One where morality – not money – guides the agenda.

A different world is possible.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The headline talks about Antisemitism fears.

Yet both people were criticising a genocidal Israeli Government.

This constant conflation of criticism of Jewish people with criticism of Israel makes me as a Jewish person feel less safe.

Such a dangerous decision by Labour.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

We are ruled by Washington

[Conor O'Neill @conoraon]

For the purposes of int. law, it doesn’t matter whether you’re importing olives from stolen Palestinian farmland, or facilitating holiday rentals on service-based platforms like Airbnb: a euro of support is a euro of support. ICJ was clear that it all must end. Govt knows this.

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

"You can be openly gay in 1 city a short drive from the mass graves of the children we slaughtered by the tens of thousands"

[Frances Black @frances_black]

Lots of work to do in the next few weeks and a big challenge ahead! 🇵🇸🇵🇸

What Govt have announced today is essentially a partial ban on trade with the illegal Israeli settlements. Seeking to ban the import of physical goods like fruit and vegetables, shamefully stolen from Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank, is important and necessary and was included in my original legislation. But it's not enough. It omits the majority of Irish trade, in intangible services like tech and IT, which would greatly undermines the scope of the legislation. Govt still haven’t given any coherent, detailed justification for this. We need to see that in the Dáil urgently.
Last year, the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee spent weeks listening to officials and legal experts on this issue, and voted unanimously, including Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil members, that the ban should be comprehensive and include all trade, both goods and services. That is the standard set in the original Occupied Territories Bill which I tabled, and it’s what the International Court of Justice has clearly said is required under international law. It’s deeply disappointing that the Govt seems to be disregarding this, but it’s not too late for them to do what’s necessary. When the Bill finally hits the floor of the Dáil in the coming weeks I will be working with all opposition parties to table amendments to include services. That has been my clear position since 2018 and I'll do everything in my power to make it happen.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

A Labour minister unable to condemn Reform's plan for the mass deportations of our neighbours.

Cowardly and disgraceful.

Labour are incapable of standing up to Reform's divisive nonsense. Only the Green Party have the courage to do this.

[Shrill by Mouth @Iskesullas]

Ireland should have been the first EU country to bring in this very smallest measure of sanction against Israel. If it was up to the Irish people we would have been. But Fianna Fail / Fine Gael were too afraid of upsetting the Yanks.

[Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 @LNBDublin]

One day, everyone will always have been against this.

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

More attacks on the Westminster bubble and the perquisites of the political class, please. The point of sitting in that place from the left should be to destroy it and the vile system it serves.