@KeithMillsD7 It’s not in the least bit offensive. If you can get offended over something like this you really don’t have a lot of happiness going on in your life - or a lot going on full stop
Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot and Palestinians stormed an Israeli detention center to free 4 people (many of whom held without charges) and caused 610 Israeli casualties in the process. Would the front pages of all the world's papers lead with images of the 4 happy reunited Palestinian families as they do today for the Israeli families?
You know the answer... There's a fundamental bias in how human lives are valued.
“My sympathy is not confined to the narrow limits of my own green Ireland; my spirit walks abroad upon sea and land, and wherever there is oppression, I hate the oppressor, wherever there is sorrow and suffering, there is my spirit to succour and relieve.”
-O'Connell 29/09/1845
I want to be as clear as I possibly can:
Nonviolent students calling for their universities and government to stop giving Israel money and weapons while it kills thousands of innocent people in Gaza
is not the same
as when Nazis attempted to exterminate the Jewish people.
"42% of murders of women in Ireland is done by the 9% that are migrant men" is a made-up statistic.
It's spread to dehumanise immigrants as 'savages'.
I've compiled real stats on murders of women in Ireland, including prior criminal records, to counter this hatred and lies. /1
@DiarmaidOCon Not a lot of gender diversity in roles like nursing either - what is your point? 😂 if nothing got broken there would be nothing to fix hun
@JOEdotie This is beyond devastating. Ashamed to be from the same country as these people. They should be lined up and shot for what they’ve done to our city
poverty, homelessness, lack of education, addiction, inequality, greed, mental illness - the biggest threats our country face and will continue to face while everyone wastes time pointing fingers at immigrants
@Anthony69794625 @dubslife1 But the city is being destroyed? What else can be done in the short term? Destroying buses and the luas is costing the Irish taxpayer money. How does it benefit the anti-immigration agenda in any way? It’s so embarrassing for us
The ten dumbest things we're being asked to believe about Gaza:
1. That Israel had no idea what Hamas was up to prior to October 7, but ever since October 7 has known about every hospital, mosque, school, refugee camp and water tower that Hamas is hiding in.
2. That the blame for all of the deaths caused by Israeli weapons launched by Israel rests solely on Hamas.
3. That Hamas is using “human shields” — meaning Hamas bases are hidden amidst civilian populations — yet Israel is managing to kill thousands of civilians without doing any meaningful damage to Hamas.
4. That it would be perfectly fine to murder children by the thousands even if they were being used as “human shields” — as though resolving a hostage situation by mowing down thousands of child hostages would be regarded as reasonable and acceptable by the public if it happened in our own country.
5. That is is only by pure coincidence that Israel bombing “Hamas targets” in civilian infrastructure and residential buildings just so happens to look exactly the same as what you’d expect to see if Israel was simply bombing civilian infrastructure and residential buildings and lying about its reasons for doing so.
6. That satellite images of entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble in Gaza have been caused by “precision strikes” directed solely at Hamas and have been carried out with the greatest of care for human life, despite Israeli officials openly saying that “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy” in this assault and that “Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents; there will be no buildings.”
7. That this bombing campaign has anything to do with freeing Israeli hostages — as though the bombing campaign itself has not killed dozens of hostages, and as though anyone believes Israel would stop bombing Gaza after the hostages are returned.
8. That the only reason anyone could possibly oppose the detonation of thousands of bombs on an open air prison full of children would be if they had very strong and hateful opinions toward the members of the religion of Judaism.
9. That Hamas attacked Israel entirely out of the blue and completely unprovoked, solely because they are evil and hate Jews.
10. That Washington is powerless to stop this genocide that it is directly funding and supplying.
@JLOVESHORRORS @jaybrand16 If Ireland had colonised England and caused the pain that the English caused to the Irish, you would feel differently about it all