Daniel Schmidt

from cork. Happy out. husband, father, hepatologist.

[Andrew Yeoman @adyeoman]

Hepatologists in UK & Ireland (you dont need to be a Celt!):
Come join us for what will be a fantastic day of knowledge sharing 👇
DM if interested

[Eoin @eoinsm]

I think this may be the greatest thing I’ve ever done… 😂😂😂

#theyreeatingthedogs

[John Cooke @CookeJohnP]

If you are an NCHD in Ireland, this survey is important. The results will help us @NDTP_HSE to better understand what NCHDs need to work & learn within our health service. We want to hear from all NCHDs at all locations. @RCPI_Trainees @TrainUs4Ireland @RCSI_Irl

[Emma Jennings @elmjennings]

Bursting with pride @HospitalMallow #healthcaresimulation is up and running on our MAU floor! Nursing & medical colleague’s teamwork stabilise an acutely deteriorating patient with anaphylaxis 👏🏻 TY learners, @CiaraCostello8 for scenario design & @StephRyng @HrSswhg for equipment

[Daniel Schmidt @danscma]

https://t.co/RCFhyVlYsW

Looking forward to IYTC performance tomorrow at St Patrick's festival.

[THIS Institute @THIS_Institute]

The BMJ’s ‘ten minute consultation’ aims to help GPs cover the most important issues in a time-limited consultation. We asked @cmsinnott how realistic it is to cover all of these issues in everyday care.

Read more: https://t.co/RZe31o4KTu

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

So, the US has airdropped 0.02 meals per Gazan. Better than nothing? Maybe, if they were airdropped by an aid agency. But, a GROSS DISGRACE when airdropped by the same military that gives Israel the gigantic bombs that killed 30k of them.
https://t.co/W9gdbK5yxs

[John Cusack @johncusack]

I have tweeted this - it’s real there s no looking away - at what this is

[Jenny Maguire (SU) @TCDSU_President]

The list of babies and children murdered by the terrorist state of Israel has been projected onto the Bank of Ireland building from @tcddublin House 6. @TrinityBDS @SocialRightsIRL @tcdsu

[Barnett R. Rubin @BRRubin]

I have no reason to post this. I know it won't make any difference, but I cannot contain the anger and loathing that I feel for the governments of Israel and the United States and all others that are facilitating the genocide in Gaza, including writers justifying it.

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

Jeremy Corbyn: “There is nothing more disgusting I can think of than what we're witnessing on our screens at the present time”

Retweet this if you agree…

#Palestine #Gaza 🇵🇸

[Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) @BenNephrology]

🧵 1/Feb 14,#Israel sent handcuffed prisoner Jamal Abu Al-Ola into Nasser health complex to tell health care workers+1000s of internally displaced people:"Get out of the hospital...because they are going to blow it up." #Gaza #WarCrimesbyIsrael https://t.co/PJYLghpiVE

[Daniel Schmidt @danscma]

@RTE_PrimeTime @EylonALevy @rtenews This genocidal monster can only do one thing

Lie lie and lie

He should not be given any platform for this gaslighting while his country murders innocent women and children by the thousand

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

The IDF raided the home of a family that requested accommodation to evacuate their child with cerebral palsy—grenading the kitchen, schrapnel piercing the kid’s eye and brain; they executed the parents; then berated the 2 other kids about tunnels, before sending them out on foot.

[Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) @BenNephrology]

Nasser health complex in #Gaza being evacuated this am after bombardment. #warcrimes by #Israel , amid mass forced displacement (#Nakba ) and ongoing silence from @JustinTrudeau @JoeBiden #RishiSunak . If @CIJ_ICJ decision re #GenocideByIsrael didn't wake u up, nothing will.

[Shona Murray @ShonaMurray_]

🚨 Ireland and Spain call for “urgent review of whether Israel is complying with its obligations, including under the EU/Israel Association Agreement. They express ‘deep concern’ at deteriorating situation in israel & Gaza. Calls on israel to abide by IHL

[Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite]

Impossible not to be moved every time you see this.

Bournemouth beach as a canvas for grief.

The clothes placed in memory of the 12,000 children murdered in Gaza, stretch for 5 kilometres.

Biden, Sunak and Starmer are partners in this slaughter.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

UNRWA is separate from the UN’s main refugee agency, the UNHCR, and deals only with Palestinian refugees.

Although Israel does not want you to know it, the reason for there being two UN refugee agencies is because Israel and its western backers insisted on the division back in 1948.

Why? Because Israel was afraid of the Palestinians falling under the responsibility of the UNHCR’s forerunner, the International Refugee Organisation. The IRO was established in the immediate wake of the Second World War in large part to cope with the millions of European Jews fleeing Nazi atrocities.

Israel did not want the two cases treated as comparable, because it was pushing hard for Jewish refugees to be settled on lands from which it had just expelled Palestinians. Part of the IRO’s mission was to seek the repatriation of European Jews. Israel was worried that very principle might be used both to deny it the Jews it wanted to colonise Palestinian land and to force it to allow the Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes.

So in a real sense, UNRWA is Israel’s creature: it was set up to keep the Palestinians a case apart, an anomaly...

Israel’s efforts to get rid of UNRWA are not new. They date back many years. For a number of reasons, the UN refugee agency is a thorn in Israel’s side – and all the more so in Gaza.

Not least, it has provided a lifeline to Palestinians there, keeping them fed and cared for, and providing jobs to many thousands of local people in a place where unemployment rates are among the highest in the world.

It has invested in infrastructure like hospitals and schools that make life in Gaza more bearable, when Israel’s goal has long been to make the enclave uninhabitable.

UNRWA’s well-run schools, staffed by local Palestinians, teach the children their own history, about where their grandparents once lived, and of Israel’s campaign of dispossession and ethnic cleansing against them. That runs directly counter to the infamous Zionist slogan about the Palestinians’ identity-less future: “The old will die and the young forget.”

But UNRWA’s role is bigger than that. Uniquely, it is the sole agency unifying Palestinians wherever they live, even when they are separated by national borders and Israel’s fragmentation of the territory it controls.

UNRWA brings Palestinians together even when their own political leaders have been manipulated into endless factionalism by Israel’s divide and rule policies: Hamas is nominally in charge in Gaza, while Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah pretends to run the West Bank.

In addition, UNRWA keeps alive the moral case for a Palestinian right of return – a principle recognised in international law but long ago abandoned by western states.

Even before October 7, UNRWA had become an obstable that needed removing if Israel was ever to ethnically cleanse Gaza. That is why Israel has repeatedly lobbied to stop the biggest donors, especially the US, funding UNRWA.

Back in 2018, for example, the refugee agency was plunged into an existential crisis when President Donald Trump acquiesced to Israeli pressure and cut all its funding. Even after the decision was reversed, the agency has been limping along financially.

You can read more from my latest article In waging war on the UN refugee agency, the West is openly siding with Israeli genocide here:
https://t.co/31iUb2ZLUd

[Massive Attack @MassiveAttackUK]

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