Eimear McKeown

Broadcast Journalist. Retired blogger. Vintage lover. Opinions originated in my own teeming brain.

[Eimear McKeown @TheRetroBlog]

My poem Old haunts has been chosen by @ThisHeadStuff as their Poem of the Week. https://t.co/T99P9VlaWw

[RTVE @rtve]

Ante la celebración de la final del festival de Eurovisión esta noche, RTVE recuerda que ha decidido no participar en esta edición del certamen.

El festival de Eurovisión es un concurso, pero los derechos humanos no lo son. No hay espacio para la indiferencia. Paz y Justicia para Palestina.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Imagine the son-in-law of the US President presenting a ‘vision and plan’ for a shiny city with resorts on the ruins of Auschwitz or Theresienstatd where dozens of my mother’s family and tens of thousands of others were slaughtered. And from which he will personally benefit. Repulsive, inhuman & rapacious doesn’t even begin to describe what they are proposing

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Having murdered EVERY journalist in Gaza, and many of their families.

Having banned ANY international journalist from entering.

Having destroyed almost every structure in Gaza and even laughing as they blew up water treatment facilities and cancer wards.

Israel is now BANNING all aid agencies from operating there from tomorrow.

The last thread of charitable aid removed.

An evil beyond humanity.

Take ACTION
Free PALESTINE

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

🚨Rolling Stone is now confirming what we all knew happened with Jimmy Kimmel’s show. According to their reporting, executives at ABC and Disney didn’t think Kimmel said anything outrageous but they feared retaliation from Trump. This is a blatant attack on free speech.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Devastating new investigation by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant: 15 international doctors report at least 114 Palestinian children with single gunshot wounds to head/chest—injuries forensic experts say are consistent with aimed fire.

(Photo: Mira, 4 years old)

[Mike Town @MikeTown44]

#UniteTheKingdom #TommyRobinson

Can’t make this up! 🤣😂

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

To be clear what happened here.

Israel bombed a hospital.

They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive.

Then they bombed it again.

This is known as the 'double tap'.

You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

[Leo Puglisi @Leo_Puglisi6]

#BREAKING: Hannah Thomas, former Greens candidate for Grayndler, releases video:

“I’m 5 foot 1, I weigh about 45 kilos, I was engaged in peaceful protest – and my interactions with NSW Police have left me potentially without vision in my right eye permanently” | @6NewsAU

[SBS News @SBSNews]

Journalist Antoinette Lattouf has won her unlawful termination case against the ABC, with the federal court ruling she was unfairly sacked over a social media post about the war in Gaza.

Read more: https://t.co/se6cpAco5L

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Nuclear warheads inventories in the Middle East:

🇧🇭 Bahrain: 0
🇨🇾 Cyprus: 0
🇪🇬 Egypt: 0
🇮🇷 Iran: 0
🇮🇶 Iraq: 0
🇮🇱 Israel: 90
🇯🇴 Jordan: 0
🇰🇼 Kuwait: 0
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 0
🇴🇲 Oman: 0
🇵🇸 Palestine: 0
🇶🇦 Qatar: 0
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 0
🇸🇾 Syria: 0
🇸🇩 Sudan: 0
🇹🇷 Türkiye: 0
🇦🇪 UAE: 0
🇾🇪 Yemen: 0

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

This morning, on my way to the clinic, though even calling it that feels absurd now, it is more graveyard than refuge; I saw a girl. She was sixteen, no older. She was thin, with the kind of tiredness around her eyes that children should never know. In her hands, she carried a pot, a blackened metal container, steaming faintly. Inside was a thin, soupy liquid. It was mostly water, with a few pale white beans floating like little wrecks in an ocean of absence.

Behind her, her father moved through the crowd with a soldier’s gaze. It was not the gaze of one trained for war, but of one forced to survive it. He was scanning faces, perhaps for danger, perhaps for hope, or perhaps for something in between.

The girl looked back once, then again. When she saw him turn away, she seized that brief moment of freedom. She dipped her fingers into the pot, scooped a few beans, and stuffed them into her mouth with the speed of guilt. Her eyes darted around as she chewed, terrified that he might see her, that he might scold her. Not because he was cruel, but because that pitiful soup was meant to feed not one child, but an entire family. Perhaps five. Perhaps ten. We no longer count mouths. Only spoons.

There was a kitchen once, a charity. They cooked for over a thousand families every day. They did it not for profit, and not for recognition, but because their souls could not do otherwise. That kitchen shut down three days ago. Not because people stopped being hungry, but because the shelves became empty. The rice, the oil, the flour — everything ran out.

And now the people go to the American aid centers.

Yes, of course. "Humanitarian corridors." What a beautiful phrase. How clean, how sterile, how bureaucratically elegant. It sounds like "collateral damage" or "operation." The Americans built them. The Israelis secured them. And forty people die at their gates every day.

Crushed. Shot. Starved. They come seeking bread and leave as corpses.

Everyone knows this. Absolutely everyone. And yet they still go.
Hunger will drive a man to walk toward his own execution if there is even a shadow of rice behind the gun.

Yesterday, my friend Al-Aloul went. He is not a fighter. He is a software engineer, a quiet man.

He came back stabbed, in the neck.
Six stitches. Blood soaked through his shirt.

But he smiled.

"I got the box," he said. "They did not take it."

What kind of world is this? What kind of man smiles through blood because he has a box of flour?

This is not the war of tanks and planes. Those have become irrelevant. This is the war of hunger, the war of slow death.
Mothers fast for days, not in spiritual devotion, but because their sons must eat first.
Children stand in line for aid, not knowing if they will return alive.
Girls eat in secret, and fathers carry shame heavier than bread.

This is genocide by exhaustion, by silence, by paperwork, and by averted eyes.

Do you want to know what the modern age has made of evil?

It has made it bureaucratic.
Digitised.
Professionalised.

A genocide in which the world debates definitions while children chew air.

The child who ate those beans is more real than your opinions.
My friend who smiled through blood has more dignity than your excuses.
Gaza is not a headline. It is a mirror.
And when you look at it, what you see is the measure of your own humanity.

You want God to speak?
Perhaps he already has.

He speaks through the silence of that girl.
Through the blood on that box.
Through the words I now write with shaking hands.

Gaza is not dying.
It is being crucified.
And we are the crowd at Golgotha.
Watching.

#GazaGenocide‌

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

17 hours after its unlawful seizure and capture, the #Madleen crew remains held offshore, reportedly near Ashdod. I call on:
– Israel to release them immediately, and let them sail unimpeded to Gaza;
– The UK to act under its Article 94 UNCLOS duties as flag-state to ensure the safety of the crew;
– Crew members’ home states (Brazil, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Turkey), to intervene to ensure the safety of their citizens.

There is no legal basis for Israel’s actions. All states must uphold their obligations under the Genocide Convention—to prevent further acts of genocide and end Israel’s impunity.

It should never have fallen to ordinary citizens to do what states refuse to.

[Muslim Sisters of Eire @Msoe_Dublin]

Tonight was one of those nights where we were left speechless. Six 6-foot tables that were filled with food were emptied after 45 minutes. We handed out 260 meals and still had around fifty people without food. This is the second week that this has happened and we don’t understand what’s going on. There’s been a huge increase in our soup run and we need to start thinking strategically for future soup runs.

It is absolutely heartbreaking for someone to be at the end of the queue and know that there’s not a hot meal for that person. For the people that were left, we handed out fruit and goodies but that was still not a proper meal. Tonight we have no words, we feel defeated. We need to plan properly for next week to ensure that we have enough meals - this week 300 was not enough. If you would like to sponsor a hot meal, it’s €3 per person. If any restaurants would like to sponsor hot meals, please contact us.

If you would like to help us or donate, please visit https://t.co/txexZXW91y.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Would rather be a Rangers fan tbh...

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Garron Noone being championed by every far-right clown in Ireland.

I'll go through what he said in order to go way, way up in the estimation of bigots.

Also some factual counterpoints to his views, which in my opinion could charitably be described as "ignorant shite." /1

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Walthamstow, London.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

She called it.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?

VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

surrounding himself with a bunch of children who have no concept of what they’re being used for and instilling in them a fear of trans people based on nothing but hate. this is the indoctrination i’ve been hearing about

[Frank.Riot 🍉 @RiotFrank]

Google is among the corporations culpable for the genocide and the theft of Palestinian childhoods.