Ciarán Tourish

Sure we’re flying! Donegal man living in Kildare.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Failure to suspend Israel from Eurovision, as it continues to commit genocide in Gaza, unlawful occupation and apartheid against Palestinians, is an act of cowardice and double standards. #HumanityMustWin

Read more: https://t.co/1XDnwGOY7n

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

The children of Umm al-Kheir

Hebron, Palestine

📸 Andrey X

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile.

That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap.

That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel.

People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

El Gobierno de España condena la pena de muerte contra palestinos que acaba de aprobar el parlamento de Israel. Se trata de una medida asimétrica que no se aplicaría a los israelíes que cometieran los mismos delitos.

Mismo crimen, distinta pena.

Eso no es justicia. Es un paso más hacia el apartheid.

El mundo no puede callar.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Spain closes airspace to US aircraft involved in Iran war https://t.co/9bUVs1Y3Zv

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at [email protected]

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

@TadhgHickey Wow. It just “landed” near me purely by chance. Not a targeted attack that nearly killed me. I mean this is shite even by BBC standards.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Israel is a child killing machine.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Today, the world’s largest human rights group shared a detailed statement on how Israel’s ONGOING GENOCIDE is impacting Palestinian women. It didn’t generate a single headline in Western media.

Because why would this be newsworthy?

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This is what British complicity in an illegal war looks like.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Imagine how many tweets it would take for Sky News to give us this level of detail on every death in Gaza.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

“Ground incursion… continuing ground presence…ground operation… defensive manoeuvre…”

The BBC trying every possible phrase just to avoid saying that Israel is illegally invading Lebanon.

This is a crash course in propaganda.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

@BBCWorld What airstrikes? Who is doing them?

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Real allies owe each other mutual support in times of struggle, but not blind obedience down a reckless path.

War is not the answer.
https://t.co/i84YV404Nv

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.

Our response then must be our response now:

NO to violations of international law.

NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.

NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.

NO TO WAR.
https://t.co/KpRjBfwY4B

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Netanyahu wanted billions to flatten Gaza. He got it.

Netanyahu wanted war with Iran. Trump just gave it to him.

American foreign and military policy must be determined by the American people.

Not the right-wing extremist Netanyahu government.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

The situation is so bad that even the BBC got a headline right

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

It's clear that Gaza has all but disappeared from the headlines. That's what they want. That's what they want because people, including children, are still being killed by Israel every day. Don't stop talking about it.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

The USA is no longer a nation anyone should engage with on any level.

This is depravity. The nations of the world need a new alliance to crush this maniac and those around him.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Greta Thunberg has just been arrested for opposing genocide outside Aspen Insurance, which underwrites Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems.

Meanwhile, Keir Starmer — complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people — walks free.

He should be arrested and sent to The Hague.