Brid Macdermott

still not sure if i belong here...

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

There is no moral difference between putting people in gas chambers and burning people in safe zones inside tents.

A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.

[DOZA🧐 @lil_doza]

A group of men unprovoked targeted an Indian student in Cork City on Saturday and forcefully tied a rope on his neck attempting to strangle him.

The International Student recently moved to Cork City to study his Masters.

This scumbag was one of them. https://t.co/1SEz7EFNoU

[SavetheHellfire @SavetheHellfire]

Shame on Luise who dumped the remains of her takeaway in the Hellfire carpark. #litter #leaveNOtrace #SundayThoughts

[Brid Macdermott @bridfitzy]

@Skentelbery Sneery

[Brid Macdermott @bridfitzy]

@TanyaGold1 He's a hypocritical nasty pos. He can give but can't take. Blocked me yrs ago.

[Brid Macdermott @bridfitzy]

@Eve_Barlow

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

A beautiful viral video of African kids speaking their names was followed by a Purim video by Israeli students showing us who they send to Gaza, and how their government, media and cultural institutions are replacing my Judaism with the white supremacy of our oppressors.

[Brid Macdermott @bridfitzy]

@HarryIkmal_2187 @Eve_Barlow She's not irish. She's Scottish. We don't want anything to don't want anything to do with her.

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

“How many more children must die before our government calls for a ceasefire?”

Retweet this if you agree with Jeremy Corbyn.

#Palestine #Gaza

[Brid Macdermott @bridfitzy]

@mhdksafa 🇵🇸

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Five things liberals say to avoid having to take a meaningful position on Gaza:

1. “It’s heartbreaking!”
2. “It’s complicated!”
3. “BUT TRUMP!”
4. “I really hope there can be peace there someday!”
5. “I support a two-state solution!”

Let’s talk about these a bit.

“It’s heartbreaking!”

Liberals love talking about how “sad” and “heartbreaking” what’s happening in Gaza is like it’s some kind of natural disaster, some tragically tragic tragedy that their government has been passively witnessing instead of actively facilitating. It lets them express their progressive humanitarian feelings without actually taking a meaningful political position against what’s being done in their name with their tax dollars and with their tacit consent.

In reality the genocide in Gaza is not sad or heartbreaking or tragic; those are words you use for diseases and accidents. When someone is murdered with malicious intent, we don’t heave a heavy sigh and shed a tear and move on — we prosecute their murderer. It isn’t raining bombs in Gaza because that’s just the unfortunate weather there today, those bombs are being dropped by Israel with genocidal intent with the full backing of the United States and its allies. This is a crime which requires outrage and punishment, not empty crocodile tears.

“It’s complicated!”

No it isn’t. An apartheid regime has been oppressing and abusing an ethnic group which doesn’t receive the same rights and treatment as others, and now they’re dropping bombs on a population trapped in a giant concentration camp. If it was Jewish people enclosed in Gaza while any other ethnicity rained military explosives on them for four months, no liberal in the world would have trouble recognizing what they’re seeing and calling it what it is.

“BUT TRUMP!”

Push a Biden supporter hard enough on what their president is doing in Gaza and eventually they’ll start babbling about how bad Donald Trump is. As though Trump being bad somehow negates the depravity of backing an active genocide. Or as though backing an active genocide is an excusable offense if it means a little more student debt forgiveness or something.

Democrats have no way to reconcile Gaza with what they believe about themselves and what values they supposedly hold, so when confronted with the horrifying reality of what their president is doing in the middle east they’re left with no option but to plunge their heads into the sand and scream “TRUMP!!!” as loud as they can. Nothing has exposed the true nature of the Democratic Party like a Democrat president running for re-election during a US-backed genocide.

“I really hope there can be peace there someday!”

Like “It’s tragic!”, this one replaces a meaningful political position with empty emotional fluff to create the false impression that the liberal has said something relevant which aligns with their stated values and ideology.

By saying you want peace but refusing to say how you want the peace to come about, the “peace” you purport to support could mean anything. If Israel bombs Gaza into rubble and drives survivors into refugee camps in the Sinai desert, they could call that “peace” because there won’t be a war anymore. If Israel murders everyone in Gaza, they can call that “peace” because the bombs are no longer falling. Even going back to the status quo of October 6 wouldn’t be “peace”, it would just be returning to the abusive conditions which gave rise to October 7.

Saying you want “peace” without talking about immediate ceasefires and negotiated agreements is just saying you want Israel to keep doing what it’s doing until it decides it’s done enough.

“I support a two-state solution!”

The “two-state solution” is functionally just a psychological box that liberals mentally tick off so they can pretend they have a real position on Israel-Palestine. Israeli leaders publicly spit on the notion of a Palestinian state with its own military and national sovereignty, and there is no political wherewithal to make such a thing happen. It’s nothing more than a conceptual construct which lets liberals feel nice about their personal politics without actually taking a stand against the western-backed tyrannical power structure that is the state of Israel.

In reality there cannot be peace until Israel ceases to be an abusive apartheid ethnostate, until it and its allies pay massive reparations to the Palestinians, and until all the wrongs of the past are made right. This is entirely possible, but it would be a massive, massive effort toward a goal that would make the current status quo of Israel-Palestine completely unrecognizable from what it currently is. Merely flicking an intellectual thumbs-up to empty notions about a “two-state solution” is just more liberal psychological compartmentalization.

Other popular noises liberals make to avoid taking a real position on Gaza include “Something something antisemitism!” and “It’s just Netanyahu and a few far-right jerks making things bad!” The specific words don’t matter much, because liberals will make whatever noises they need to make to avoid the crushing weight of cognitive dissonance and resist the increasingly loud demands from reality that they dramatically restructure their worldview.

[Joe Brolly @JoeBrolly1993]

Get the Israel ambassador @DanaErlich on again @rtenews and @VirginMediaNews

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

Jeremy Corbyn : “if we ignore whats happening to the Palestinian people then we become complicit"

Retweet if you agree with him

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The shame of Western journalists who couldn't even spare a passing sentence about the biggest massacre of their colleagues in modern times should haunt them for the rest of their lives.

[Dr Myriam François @MyriamFrancoisC]

I have been working on a case of 3 year Palestinian boy whose burns were so deep his lower body was unrecognisable as human flesh. Charred.And he was alive with no pain medication for days until he died on Christmas Day because of OUR COLLECTIVE FAILURES to hold Israel to account

[Brid Macdermott @bridfitzy]

@brianoflondon @aptisk10 @ggreenwald @GalGadot It's not your indigenous homeland. Don't be ridiculous. Israel is losing support worldwide and they will be made accountable for the genocide they are inflicting on Palestine.

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

RT if Ireland should follow suit 🇮🇪

[fennessyspub @fennessyspub]

Just met the broken hearted mother of this young lady distributing flyers in the city centre… share far and wide please #charlotteconway #missingperson #waterfordgardastation #limerickcityvfi

[Brid Macdermott @bridfitzy]

Society of St. Vincent de Paul https://t.co/yA30ejIAGQ

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Face of Hamas? He voted for them ?reap what you sow?