Fergal @[email protected]

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I work on Chrome. My opinions and my employer's are quite at odds.
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[Fergal @[email protected] @fergal_whatever]

This would be an epic troll if the poster wasn't actually serious. Mind-boggling.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is absolutely insane.

The suffragettes used far more extreme tactics than Palestine Action.

They planted bombs, burned down private homes and smashed up art galleries.

They killed five people!

Her outrageous judgement is based on absurd historical ignorance.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This is one of the most heart-wrenching videos I have ever seen. It shows the immediate aftermath of an Israeli soldier shooting a 7-month old Palesinian baby in the head, stealing his life.

It shows that the car with the Palestinian family had stopped. Yet the Israelis shot.

The father is holding his infant son in his arms as he bleeds to death from the shot to his head. It tears you apart.

This is the daily life of Palestinians under Israel's US-supported occupation.

You never know when you will be shot in the head. It can happen any time, for any reason.

And the world approves.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The world’s largest human rights organization published a report today on Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and there’s barely any media coverage.

How is this not newsworthy?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is extraordinarily rare.

In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented.

An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor.

The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts.

In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination.

Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light...

I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (https://t.co/Xg1hoSRtNy) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it.

Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period.

In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want.

In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again.

Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

Government claims that releasing a briefing note prepared for Simon Harris’s meeting with the US ambassador in the aftermath of an FAI motion to suspend Israel from European football would “harm” the state’s “capacity to conduct international relations”.

https://t.co/7aIO56KUZ8

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israeli soldiers shot a 7 month old baby dead.

They then lied about it.

This is what the Israeli state does.

They commit war crimes, lie about it, commit more war crimes, lie about it, in an endless cycle of murderous horror.

[Fergal @[email protected] @fergal_whatever]

@offtereshchenko @hasanthehun Literally incredible.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The Israeli army shot dead a 7-month-old Palestinian baby in the West Bank.

It was in broad daylight.

The father says:

"I stopped as I was instructed to, and then they simply shot at the car."

Israel routinely kills babies - and the West is silent.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Horrific footage of a Palestinian child being burned alive by Israel. Where are the headlines and front page stories? Imagine the coverage if the child were Israeli.

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

🚨Breaking: Amnesty International has today joined a criminal complaint against FedEx after The Ditch uncovered evidence the airline unlawfully transported F-35 fighter jet parts for the Israel Defense Forces through Belgium in June 2025

[amnestypress @amnestypress]

Belgium: @amnesty joins complaint against FedEx for unlawful arms transit to Israel

"It’s unacceptable that multinationals like FedEx can ignore the rules when it suits them. They are not above the law," says @thibaut_carine director of @amnestybe https://t.co/xO8Pdguetk

[Fergal @[email protected] @fergal_whatever]

@VASA1040626 @tparsi The US will never agree to stop funding militias, taking hostages, threatening its neighbors or enriching uranium!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The Israelization of our societies is already happening: posturing democracies where human rights can be suspended for people that those in power consider a disturbance.
Wake up Brits. Italians. Germans. French. North Americans. Dutch.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You don’t kill 133 healthcare workers by accident.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Words that describe what Israel is doing in Lebanon:

-Ethnic cleansing
-Occupying
-Indiscriminate bombing
-Killing civilians
-Targeting medics
-Deliberately destroying
-Illegal

Words media uses:

-Orders evacuation
-Asks to leave
-Warns
-Declares
-Against Hezbollah
-Combat zone

[Fergal @[email protected] @fergal_whatever]

@AngryLi0n2 @DrSusanOliver1 They survived by having 17 kids, half of whom died before adulthood with almost none of them making it to their '60s. Go look at some family records from the 1800s.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Here are Hussein's cousins who were killed by Israel

Western mainstream media refers to them as "Hezbollah targets"

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Among the reasons most EU states and EU institutions are quiet about Israel's daily slaughter of civilians in the region, is that they do not care: Lebanese, Palestinian, Iranian lives are disposable, their loss negligible.
And this is so wrong.
Immoral.
Illegal.
Irresponsible.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me!
As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest".
Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far.

Together we are One.