I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me and all of the people I've had the privilege of working with over my time as an MEP, in Ireland, across Europe, and beyond.
I have been honoured to have been able to use this platform as a powerful voice for peace, antimilitarism and neutrality.
This result is not a rejection of those ideas.
It is testament to the success and reach of the work we've done that the establishment came out in such force to harm my chances of reelection.
Electoral politics is always only a platform to organise from. That organisation is going on in communities, workplaces and universities all over Europe.
We continue the fight.
The Israeli state deliberately incited a war with Iran because
- its onslaught against Gaza is failing on its own terms
- global public opinion has swung decisively against Israel
- the Biden administration is under pressure
- Netanyahu faces jail when war ends
The moment Aljazeera Journalist Momen Al-Sharafi breaks the news that his entire family of 21 members were just killed in an Israeli Airstrike in #Gaza.
The look he gives as he is no longer able to talk, is heartbreaking.
The language of dehumanization:
๐ฎ๐ฑ - Children
๐ต๐ธ - People under 18
๐ฎ๐ฑ - Civilians
๐ต๐ธ - Collateral damage
๐ฎ๐ฑ - Women and children
๐ต๐ธ - Human shields
๐ฎ๐ฑ - Hostages
๐ต๐ธ - Prisoners
๐ฎ๐ฑ - Killed
๐ต๐ธ - Died
๐ฎ๐ฑ - Attacks
๐ต๐ธ - Explosions
This morning in Israel I witnessed the devastation caused by the Oct 7 attack in Sderot and Kibbutz Beโeri, where Emily Hand was taken hostage, w/ Israeli FM @elicoh1
I unreservedly condemn the brutal attack by Hamas & call for the immediate & unconditional release of hostages
A ๐งต of all the protests in support of Palestine WORLDWIDE! โ๐ป๐ต๐ธ
Please share your own pictures and videos in the comments so I can add them too! ๐๐ป
1. Stockholm, Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
President Biden on deadly strike on a hospital in Gaza that killed at least 500 civilians: "Based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. But there's a lot of people who are not sure."
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of American Jews are holding a sit-in at Congress โ and we wonโt leave until Congress calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. As thousands of U.S. Jews protest outside, over 350 are inside, including two dozen rabbis, holding prayerful resistance.
So you understand the scale of the genocide Israel is committing in Gaza, a city the size of Detroit:
Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February last year, 545 Ukrainian children were killed.
In this past week, 724 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed.