“I always said I was anti-Zionist but not antisemitic”
Taryn Thomas used to join campus protests at Stanford where students called Israel’s war with Hamas a genocide.
Then, she attended the Nova exhibit, and learned for the first time about what actually happened on October 7th.
Now, she realizes, those protests “had already decided how the story was going to end,” before Israel even responded to the massacre.
This is exactly why Free Palestine protests the Nova exhibit wherever it opens.
They are afraid that if more people learn the truth, their movement will run out of support.
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Imagine being Irish and proudly flying the flag of the terrorist group that murdered an Irish soldier, Seán Rooney. Seriously, this is painful to watch. 💔
Everyone wants to talk about the Palestinian Nakba but no one wants to talk about the Yemeni Nakba.
Or the Egyptian Nakba.
Or the Syrian Nakba.
Or the Iraqi Nakba.
Or all the other Nakbas that forced almost 1,000,000 Mizrahi Jews out of the Middle East due to persecution, hatred, antisemitism, and genocides.
A broken Iranian mother’s voice cracks as she pleads with the world. In raw, tear-soaked pain, Nahal Curbelo stares into the camera and begs America and Israel: “Please… just finish it. Free the people of Iran.”
Her desperate cry comes one day after they dragged 55-year-old father Mohammad Abbasi to the gallows at Ghezel Hesar prison at dawn on May 13 and hanged him. Arrested with his daughter Fatemeh during the January protests, he was tortured, forced to confess, and denied a real lawyer.
They executed him without even allowing a final goodbye. His family was called for a supposed “visit,” only to learn over the phone that he was already dead.
Fatemeh is still rotting in Evin Prison with a 25-year sentence.
This regime doesn’t just kill bodies — it crushes the soul and hope of an entire nation.
How many more fathers and daughters must die before the world finally hears a mother’s shattered scream? This blood-drenched regime must be gone for good.
Since Oct 7/23 the feeling in the pit of my stomach I wake with each day is one of great sadness.
Perhaps Jews were never
welcomed or even accepted in Ireland and we fooled ourselves.
My family arrived here at the end of the 1800’s they asked for nothing from the state.
They led quiet lives and contributed to education and business and were heavily involved in community charities and affairs.
Now I would settle for simply being ignored but the genie is well and truly out of the Irish bottle.
Happy Mother’s Day! ❤️
My mother is my lifeline and eternal inspiration. They tried to marry her off when she was 8 years old in Yemen, and she went on to become a ferocious activist for women’s rights.
She will forever be my greatest hero.
"I might go farming myself."
Micheál Martin flew to Africa in 2024 to meet Ethiopian farmers, give away Irish taxpayer money and launch an electric tractor.
But when it came to Irish farmers, he sent in the military to seize their tractors.
I spent the last two days in Brussels representing our community at the European Jewish Association annual conference, themed “𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢𝘥𝘢 – 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘦.”
These conferences are the only place where my accent is immediately recognised.
I’m still not entirely sure whose idea it was to put me on a panel about the 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 developments in the fight against antisemitism - but at least the photo came out well :)
It was genuinely heartening to hear Members of the European Parliament, alongside European leaders and politicians, as well as American ambassadors, speak clearly about their responsibility and commitment to confronting antisemitism.
It was also deeply inspiring to hear Jewish leaders - young and not-so-young - share what they are building, protecting, and pushing forward in their own countries.
At the same time, it’s impossible to ignore how much communities across Europe are dealing with - the threats, the pressure, the constant need to justify and defend.
And, each time, it becomes clearer just how much of an outlier Ireland remains, and how far behind we are when it comes to seriously addressing antisemitism and supporting Jewish life.
And one unexpected takeaway: apparently even a Jewish conference can underestimate the importance of coffee breaks
@rtenews Killed or dead? @rtenews , are you available to give the whole picture for ONCE?
But what do I want from the media, whose articles are against Irish people.
Simon Harris is today worried about cancer patients because it suits him to use them as a stick to beat protesters. He didn't care about the women caught up in the Cervical check scandal when he lied to them about never having to go to court for compensation. Several women with terminal cancer had to go to court with only months to live. He is a horrible individual and should never be in a position of power.
The Irish Media's unbroken pattern of reserving detailed investigations for critics of the state, and never the state itself, continues unimpeachably. As one would expect when the media depends now almost entirely on state funding to survive.