Edith Lawlor

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"Every time the democratic world hesitates, dictators learn the same lesson: aggression works. Every delay, every excuse, every compromise made in the name of stability only increases the price that must eventually be paid."

- Garry Kasparov

so true....

Wake up, Europe..!

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Merz: "Ukraine has been defending its freedom for more than 4 years."

(AfD members laughing)

Merz: "That’s telling sign, ladies and gentlemen. They laugh about it, they laugh about fate of millions of people in Ukraine and they travel to Moscow for their champagne receptions."

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Reports say FIFA is fuming with UEFA.

After the US humiliated top African referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan — CAF Referee of the Year — denying him entry despite a valid visa and blocking him from the 2026 World Cup...

UEFA just handed him the biggest stage: officiating the 2026 UEFA Super Cup final.

FIFA talks big about "inclusivity" and "global football," but stays silent when the host nation disrespects African officials.

Meanwhile, Europe steps up.

This exposes everything.
The World Cup in America is showing its true colors: selective borders for Africans while they welcome whoever fits their interests.

Africa is not begging for scraps.
Our talent will shine — with or without their permission.

[Marcos Feres 🇵🇸 @marcosvmf_]

Copa do Mundo é uma boa ocasião pra lembrar que "israel" exterminou ao menos 437 jogadores de futebol palestinos, mais de 800 atletas e que o presidente da FIFA é alvo de denúncia no Tribunal Penal Internacional como cúmplice de "israel" em crimes de guerra e de lesa-humanidade?

[Ciaran Tierney @ciarantierney]

Having seen that eight children from my favourite football academy in #Gaza were murdered by #Israel, the idea that #Ireland would play their national team anywhere right now makes me sick.

Six points or 75,000 lives?

#SanctionIsrael
#StopTheGame

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

"Created by the poor stolen by the rich" banner flies at the World Cup.

Protesting the fact that Football has been stolen by the rich.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt”

It’s working-class Black and brown people being pushed out of their homes. This is racist violence and intimidation. Don’t dress it up as anything else.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

This is Gaza right now.

Israel is raining bombs on civilian areas in the middle of the night while people sleep.

Not a peep from the complicit international community, of course.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Mark from Belfast just called it what it is on @BenKentish @LBC:

“30 women were murdered… not one road was closed, not one protest.
What was the connection? They were murdered by white locals.”

One stabbing by a Sudanese man and the whole place is engulfed with riots, fires, attacks on Whites, Black & Brown people across Belfast.

Years of local white men killing women nothing.

Undiluted racism. He is not the only local to have said this! Who is behind this violence? 👇 #BelfastRiots #CallItWhatItIs

[Emma DeSouza @EmmaCDeSouza]

The majority of violent crimes committed in Northern Ireland are at the hands of white men born here.

Femincide levels are the second highest in Europe.

Northern Ireland does not have an immigration problem. It has a problem with violence.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

She fled her home.

She saved her nurse’s uniform.

Not her jewellery. Not possessions. Her uniform because she wanted to keep caring for people.

That tells you everything about her.

This is the Britain I believe in: one that values compassion, courage and those who contribute to our communities.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

These aren't "protests" in Northern Ireland.

They're not "riots" either.

It's a pogrom.

It's a systematic attempt to drive minorities out of their homes using violence.

It's been whipped up by the media, our politicians, and the racist psychopath who runs this app.

[LPC @landpalestine]

Jewish actress Miriam Margolyes says When I visited Israel I saw how disgusting Israeli people were because of their racist treatment of Palestinians

“Israeli people are shits”

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

When Russia hosted the World Cup in 2018, it had to suspend normal visa rules for the tournament. Foreigners with tickets could enter visa-free, using a scheme called ‘Fan ID.’

Russia also had to do weird stuff to keep FIFA’s sponsors happy. For example, small shops near Fan Zones and stadiums could only sell Budweiser beer on match days.

So yes, FIFA absolutely does dictate conditions to host governments when it suits FIFA. Infantino pretending otherwise is nonsense.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

While the usual minions spread new falsehoods about fellow UN experts and me, here is what Israel and its supporters want absolutely you not to see. The body of evidence.

Warning: highly disturbing content.
https://t.co/yb9HuY6BN4

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

This hasn’t gone viral the way it should.

Jamie Corry, an Irish lad from east Belfast, has lost his home of 13 years after masked rioters set fire to cars outside and it engulfed his house in last night’s violent chaos.

He stood right there and begged one of them:

“This is my house. This is my house.”

They didn’t care.

They burned it anyway.

“They’ve done it to one of their own.”

These racist, uneducated thugs and street urchins destroy everything in their path. They don’t care who gets hurt: locals, families, their own community. Just mindless arsonists ruining innocent lives with no excuse.

[IslamophobiaUK @uk_islamophobia]

Meet Stephen-Lee McIlvenny.

21 years old. West Belfast.

77 charges. Rape. Child sexual abuse. Coercion.

Three boys. Aged 14–15. Targeted, blackmailed, filmed.

Sentenced to 23 years.

Not a migrant. Northern Irish.

Where was the outrage. The mob. The murals.

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.

I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.

[José Aroca @JoseArocaALC]

Tras los JJOO de 1936 en la Alemania nazi, Jesse Owens, atleta negro que ganó cuatro oros, fue preguntado por su experiencia en Alemania.
Resulta que pudo alojarse en la Villa Olímpica y comer con el resto de atletas, en EEUU no.
Roosevelt se negó a recibirlo en la Casa Blanca y en un homenaje en NY en un lujoso hotel le prohibieron usar la puerta principal...
A partir de mañana vamos a ser testigos del arraigado y vigente racismo de un país que no ha mejorado mucho que digamos.
Mañana empieza el Mundial más racista de la historia.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

We must resist the normalization of mass death. I am asking you to look directly at what is happening in the world and call it what it is.
If we become comfortable with the suffering of others, we should not be surprised when that same indifference reaches our own doorstep.