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Demand the Irish government stops blocking the Occupied Territories Bill and finally ban trade with illegal settlers on Palestinian land #PassTheOTB https://t.co/i82W2IFxIK via @UpliftIRL
I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Cancel Red Hat Event at Croke Park, Dublin on Tuesday 17th September 2024. Write one here: https://t.co/BeADSUoAdo
@FergalBowers I know, Fergal, but it does not match their daily reports.
For example, they published this ICU data -
Sun 21st +2
Mon 22nd +2
Tues 23rd +2
Wed 24th +6
Thurs 25th +0
Fri 26th +5
Sat 27th +1
= 18, not 2.
How many total #COVID deaths, please?
That number is hidden for last 10 wks
Fri 12/7/24 Ireland
HSE
Total COVID deaths hidden‼️
Up to 18/5/24: 9,754 total COVID deaths, 2024=288
8‼️wks ago
102 road deaths to date
Hospital 364+64‼️-18
Yesterday 361+64-18=407‼️not 364
This wk+339‼️
‼️ICU 27‼️+8‼️-3
Yesterday 22
This wk+23‼️
https://t.co/kGH5x4QAFQ
Who to follow
Dr. Mairéad De Búrca PhD
@DrMaireadDB
PhD Doctorate in Education.
#COVIDisAirborne #ProtectOurChildren #MasksWork when well fitted (FFP2 or better)
https://t.co/CEwe9tYrDK
Gregor Kerr (he/him)
@gregor_kerr
Primary teacher, INTO activist, admin of Voiceforteachers fb page, All views expressed are strictly my own
Emcee3x
@officialemcee3x
Ireland
12/7/2024
#COVID19
WHAT THE HELL?
‼️27 in ICU today!‼️
Highest since 31/1/2023
A Year and a half ago!
@DonnellyStephen @SimonHarrisTD @greenparty_ie @MichealMartinTD you are NOT protecting people.
@gavreilly @FergalBowers SAY something.
TELL people they are at risk.
@AnybodyButBerti @DonnellyStephen @mandacoughlan @SBH_PAG @scolionetwork @SimonHarrisTD @davidcullinane @SenatorMcDowell @TomClonan @MaryLouMcDonald @chelleylong @ClarCahill @mulvanypeopleb1 @CeoHardiman @ivanabacik @SimonHarrisTD has been made aware, he wrote to us and advised he would meet with the parental advocates months ago.
We at @SBH_PAG & @scolionetwork are still waiting on a date.
No urgency from an Taoiseach on this matter.
It is untrue @DonnellyStephen to claim that there was NO knowledge that money was being allocated elsewhere
There was knowledge @mandacoughlan & I contacted your advisor & you numerous times around the allocation of this funding
@SBH_PAG & @scolionetwork shared concerns
#backus
What's happened to the European Project and the lens that we are looking down?
Scathing contribution from the Leas Ceann Comhairle leaves the Public Expenditure Minister Pascal Donoghue squirming.
We're waiting for our big sisters and brothers in Europe to tell us what to do, oh yes we are. And you're going to vote for Von der Leyen -@catherinegalway
#Dáil
Another day & we continue to lobby for investment in Primary Education for #IntoBudget25 Thanks to @SimonHarrisTD @MariaWalshEU @1Hildegarde for taking the time to engage with us @tf_castlebar #FundOurSchools @INTOnews
And teachers are the ones who develop players to that level initially!
@NicholasFerroni The same people that complain about teacher salaries being too high…are also the same people that have no problem paying a football player 25 million for three years… remember sports stadiums are also taxpayer-funded in a lot of cases.
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BREAKING - Media Statement by Nelson Mandela's grandson, Zwelivelile "Mandla" Mandela, in direct response to comments made by Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy.
He calls Lammy an "apologist for genocide".
FULL STATEMENT:
"We call on students all over the world to emulate the student protest encampments on USA University Campuses.
Friday, 10th May 2024: Today, marks 30 years since the inauguration of President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela on the 10th May 1994. I dedicate the memory of this day to the students protesting on USA University campuses calling for an immediate ceasefire of the genocide of Gaza and supporting the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom.
"We recall Madiba’s historic words on this day when he said: "We dedicate this day to all the heroes and heroines in this country and the rest of the world who sacrificed in many ways and surrendered their lives so that we could be free."
"Contrary to what David Lammy, the Labour MP in the UK would like us to believe, Madiba acknowledged the heroes in the Civil Rights Movement in the USA and campuses all over the world who regularly protested for our freedom.
"He himself was of that generation of South African youth who called for the armed struggle in the face of increasing state brutality in dealing with peaceful protest against Apartheid.
"The youth on USA campuses are emulating and following in the brave footsteps of the youth of 1968 who came out openly protesting against the war in Vietnam.
"On countless occasions acknowledged the role of the student protests of 1976 Soweto Uprising for playing a seminal role in our march to freedom.
"From his prison cell he echoed the call to the students of the 1980s to make South Africa ungovernable.
"David Lammy mustn't be an apologist for Apartheid Israel and for the ongoing genocide in Gaza. He must echo President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's commitment to the Palestinian struggle which he affirmed during his visit to Gaza in 1995 when he said: " Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people."
"We call on David Lammy to stop being an apologist for genocide and instead encourage all students on UK and European university campuses to emulate their fellow students in the USA in their call for a ceasefire in Gaza and support the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom.
"Youth are the conscience of our world and their voices are the moral compass that guide us to a better future. Rather than brutalize them and criminalize their protest actions, we must encourage them to continue to stand for justice, human rights and dignity for all humanity. You are our heroes, we salute you.
ENDS
Nkosi Zwelivelile
Royal House of Mandela
#StudentsForGaza #StudentProtests #StopArmingIsrael
HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.
@ambergal47 @CatrionaGolden I can never understand why parents are not more vocal when children lose supports. I attended the NPC conference years ago after the 15% cut to resource hours. Asked the Q: this cut affects ALL children. Why no fightback? No-one there cared. Not one person!
@TrinityBDS Solidarity and Massive Respect for the Students’ Union in Trinity College for taking this action. Supports for Israel should be cut across the board while Israel continues the horrendous Genocide in Gaza.🙏 No room for a piece-meal approach such as exists now.
WE HAVE STARTED AN ENCAMPMENT ON TRINITY’S CAMPUS. TRINITY HAS CLOSED DOWN THE CAMPUS TO EVERYONE EXCEPT STUDENTS AND STAFF. WE NEED ALL THE SUPPORT WE CAN GET FROM STUDENTS AND STAFF
FREE PALESTINE
ALL EYES ON GAZA
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At Israeli embassy this morning to mark Palestinian Child's Day. Poignant, powerful event organised by @teachersforpal and Mothers Against Genocide, supported by @INTOnews
WHY I AM RESIGNING FROM THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT
By Annelle Sheline, PhD.
SINCE HAMAS’ ATTACK on October 7, Israel has used American bombs in its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 32,000 people — 13,000 of them children — with countless others buried under the rubble, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Israel is credibly accused of starving the 2 million people who remain, according to the UN special rapporteur on the right to food; a group of charity leaders warns that without adequate aid, hundreds of thousands more will soon likely join the dead.
.
.
U.S. IMPLICATED IN GENOCIDE
Yet Israel is still planning to invade Rafah, where the majority of people in Gaza have fled; UN officials have described the carnage that is expected to ensue as “beyond imagination.” In the West Bank, armed settlers and Israeli soldiers have killed Palestinians, including US citizens.
These actions, which experts on genocide have testified meet the crime of genocide, are conducted with the diplomatic and military support of the US government.
.
.
U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS CREDIBILITY VANISHED
For the past year, I worked for the office devoted to promoting human rights in the Middle East. I believe strongly in the mission and in the important work of that office.
However, as a representative of a government that is directly enabling what the International Court of Justice has said could plausibly be a genocide in Gaza, such work has become almost impossible. Unable to serve an administration that enables such atrocities, I have decided to resign from my position at the Department of State.
Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the war began.
Members of civil society have refused to respond to my efforts to contact them. Our office seeks to support journalists in the Middle East; yet when asked by NGOs if the US can help when Palestinian journalists are detained or killed in Gaza, I was disappointed that my government didn’t do more to protect them.
Ninety Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been killed in the last five months, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That is the most recorded in any single conflictsince the CPJ started collecting data in 1992.
.
.
I SPEAK FOR MANY
By resigning publicly, I am saddened by the knowledge that I likely foreclose a future at the State Department. I had not initially planned a public resignation. Because my time at State had been so short — I was hired on a two-year contract — I did not think I mattered enough to announce my resignation publicly.
However, when I started to tell colleagues of my decision to resign, the response I heard repeatedly was, “Please speak for us.”
Across the federal government, employees like me have tried for months to influence policy, both internally and, when that failed, publicly.
.
.
HORRIFIC DISREGARD FOR LAW
My colleagues and I watched in horror as this administration delivered thousands of precision-guided munitions, bombs, small arms and other lethal aid to Israel and authorized thousands more, even bypassing Congress to do so.
We are appalled by the administration’s flagrant disregard for American laws that prohibit the US from providing assistance to foreign militaries that engage in gross human rights violations or that restrict the delivery of humanitarian aid.
The Biden administration’s own policy states, “The legitimacy of and public support for arms transfers among the populations of both the United States and recipient nations depends on the protection of civilians from harm, and the United States distinguishes itself from other potential sources of arms transfers by elevating the importance of protecting civilians.”
Yet this noble statement of policy has been directly in contradiction with the actions of the president who promulgated it.
.
.
OUR CLAIMS ARE A MOCKERY
President Joe Biden himself indirectly admits that Israel is not protecting Palestinian civilians from harm. Under pressure from some congressional Democrats, the administration issued a new policy to ensure that foreign military transfers don’t violate relevant domestic and international laws.
Yet just recently, the State Department ascertained that Israel is in compliance with international law in the conduct of the war and in providing humanitarian assistance. To say this when Israel is preventing the adequate entrance of humanitarian aid and the US is being forced to air drop food to starving Gazans, this finding makes a mockery of the administration’s claims to care about the law or about the fate of innocent Palestinians.
.
.
WAR IS OUR WAR
Some have argued that the US lacks influence over Israel.
Yet Retired Israeli Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brick noted in November that Israel’s missiles, bombs and airplanes all come from the US.
“The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting,” he said. “Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”
Even now, Israel is considering invading Lebanon, which brings a heightened risk of regional conflict that would be catastrophic.
The US has sought to prevent this outcome but shows no appetite for withholding offensive weapons from Israel in order to compel greater restraint there or in Gaza. Biden’s support for Israel’s far-right government thus risks sparking a wider conflagration in the region, which could well put US troops in harm’s way.
.
.
MY COUNTRY ‘COMMITTING GENOCIDE’
I am haunted by the final social media post of Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old US Air Force serviceman who self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington on February 25:
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid?’
“’What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
I can no longer continue what I was doing. I hope that my resignation can contribute to the many efforts to push the administration to withdraw support for Israel’s war, for the sake of the 2 million Palestinians whose lives are at risk and for the sake of America’s moral standing in the world.
.
.
[Extract from resignation essay by Annelle Sheline, PhD, foreign affairs officer at US Department of State, published by CNN.]
![NuryVittachi's tweet photo. WHY I AM RESIGNING FROM THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT
By Annelle Sheline, PhD.
SINCE HAMAS’ ATTACK on October 7, Israel has used American bombs in its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 32,000 people — 13,000 of them children — with countless others buried under the rubble, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Israel is credibly accused of starving the 2 million people who remain, according to the UN special rapporteur on the right to food; a group of charity leaders warns that without adequate aid, hundreds of thousands more will soon likely join the dead.
.
.
U.S. IMPLICATED IN GENOCIDE
Yet Israel is still planning to invade Rafah, where the majority of people in Gaza have fled; UN officials have described the carnage that is expected to ensue as “beyond imagination.” In the West Bank, armed settlers and Israeli soldiers have killed Palestinians, including US citizens.
These actions, which experts on genocide have testified meet the crime of genocide, are conducted with the diplomatic and military support of the US government.
.
.
U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS CREDIBILITY VANISHED
For the past year, I worked for the office devoted to promoting human rights in the Middle East. I believe strongly in the mission and in the important work of that office.
However, as a representative of a government that is directly enabling what the International Court of Justice has said could plausibly be a genocide in Gaza, such work has become almost impossible. Unable to serve an administration that enables such atrocities, I have decided to resign from my position at the Department of State.
Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the war began.
Members of civil society have refused to respond to my efforts to contact them. Our office seeks to support journalists in the Middle East; yet when asked by NGOs if the US can help when Palestinian journalists are detained or killed in Gaza, I was disappointed that my government didn’t do more to protect them.
Ninety Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been killed in the last five months, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That is the most recorded in any single conflictsince the CPJ started collecting data in 1992.
.
.
I SPEAK FOR MANY
By resigning publicly, I am saddened by the knowledge that I likely foreclose a future at the State Department. I had not initially planned a public resignation. Because my time at State had been so short — I was hired on a two-year contract — I did not think I mattered enough to announce my resignation publicly.
However, when I started to tell colleagues of my decision to resign, the response I heard repeatedly was, “Please speak for us.”
Across the federal government, employees like me have tried for months to influence policy, both internally and, when that failed, publicly.
.
.
HORRIFIC DISREGARD FOR LAW
My colleagues and I watched in horror as this administration delivered thousands of precision-guided munitions, bombs, small arms and other lethal aid to Israel and authorized thousands more, even bypassing Congress to do so.
We are appalled by the administration’s flagrant disregard for American laws that prohibit the US from providing assistance to foreign militaries that engage in gross human rights violations or that restrict the delivery of humanitarian aid.
The Biden administration’s own policy states, “The legitimacy of and public support for arms transfers among the populations of both the United States and recipient nations depends on the protection of civilians from harm, and the United States distinguishes itself from other potential sources of arms transfers by elevating the importance of protecting civilians.”
Yet this noble statement of policy has been directly in contradiction with the actions of the president who promulgated it.
.
.
OUR CLAIMS ARE A MOCKERY
President Joe Biden himself indirectly admits that Israel is not protecting Palestinian civilians from harm. Under pressure from some congressional Democrats, the administration issued a new policy to ensure that foreign military transfers don’t violate relevant domestic and international laws.
Yet just recently, the State Department ascertained that Israel is in compliance with international law in the conduct of the war and in providing humanitarian assistance. To say this when Israel is preventing the adequate entrance of humanitarian aid and the US is being forced to air drop food to starving Gazans, this finding makes a mockery of the administration’s claims to care about the law or about the fate of innocent Palestinians.
.
.
WAR IS OUR WAR
Some have argued that the US lacks influence over Israel.
Yet Retired Israeli Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brick noted in November that Israel’s missiles, bombs and airplanes all come from the US.
“The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting,” he said. “Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”
Even now, Israel is considering invading Lebanon, which brings a heightened risk of regional conflict that would be catastrophic.
The US has sought to prevent this outcome but shows no appetite for withholding offensive weapons from Israel in order to compel greater restraint there or in Gaza. Biden’s support for Israel’s far-right government thus risks sparking a wider conflagration in the region, which could well put US troops in harm’s way.
.
.
MY COUNTRY ‘COMMITTING GENOCIDE’
I am haunted by the final social media post of Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old US Air Force serviceman who self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington on February 25:
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid?’
“’What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
I can no longer continue what I was doing. I hope that my resignation can contribute to the many efforts to push the administration to withdraw support for Israel’s war, for the sake of the 2 million Palestinians whose lives are at risk and for the sake of America’s moral standing in the world.
.
.
[Extract from resignation essay by Annelle Sheline, PhD, foreign affairs officer at US Department of State, published by CNN.]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJutvPXbUAAEr3E.jpg)
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