Fearghal O'Lideacha

Dad. Teacher. Trade unionist. Like to trick around with electronic music.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Hardly a day goes by without new levels of evil dropping from this one country.

[Muriel Gray @ArtyBagger]

Reminding myself what an utterly incredible world this is.

[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

Thank you @TuckerCarlson

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The guy who intervened with his foot to prevent the elderly woman from hitting her head on the ground after she lost her balance and fell in South Korea, was declared a hero worldwide.

[Fearghal O'Lideacha @fleddy44]

@piersmorgan @JohnCleese Zelensky and the collective west. An important omission

[Fearghal O'Lideacha @fleddy44]

@JnglJourney @sashameetsrus hi @georgegalloway . Here's a lady worth interviewing!

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"What's happening in Gaza is a Holocaust and what's being designed by the Israel government is the final solution to the Palestinian problem. As a Holocaust survivor my reaction is not in my name."

Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos

CC: LBC @Lewis_Goodall @hasanthehun

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Gymnast Katelyn Ohashi scores a perfect 10 with a jaw dropping, Michael Jackson inspired dance

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Para que los judíos se fueran a Israel, los sionistas se disfrazaron de musulmanes y atacaron a mujeres judías, hicieron atentados terroristas contra judíos en sinagogas de Irak, Egipcio, Marruecos... para aterrorizarlos y que se fueran a buscar refugio a Israel".

Yakov Rabkin, profesor emérito de Historia en la Universidad de Montreal, denuncia el papel del sionismo contra los judíos para crear el apartheid de "Israel", como incluso los sionistas hicieron atentados terroristas contra los judíos (culpando a los musulmanes) para conseguir que se marcharan de sus paises.

Durante el genocidio nazi, los sionistas igualmente llegaron a acuerdos con Hitler para fomentar la expulsión de judíos de Alemania, siempre y cuando esos judios fuesen expulsados hacia Palestina.

[Fearghal O'Lideacha @fleddy44]

@BGatesIsaPyscho How awful? People with the wrong skin colour partying and blowing balloons. Let’s call for moral panic. Asshole

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The western story of Israel's creation was a lie from start to finish. As this short film shows, Israel's founders knew the story was a lie because they were the ones who invented it.

Understanding what happened then makes perfect sense of what is happening now, in Gaza.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

@bennishkeit @Theuniondivvie @simon_schama I'm generally against the mass killing of civilians. The fact that it's Jews doing the killing doesn't complicate it for me. Put it this way, I have no reason to come up with reasons to justify it, ignore, it, cover it up, or explain it away.

[Fearghal O'Lideacha @fleddy44]

@SabbySabs2 To put Israeli zionists on the same list as Hamas is a grave injustice to Hamas

[Mats Nilsson @mazzenilsson]

Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt's 1948 letter to the New York Times: They saw the creation of a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine at the expense of its indigenous Muslim and Christian population as a profound injustice and moral catastrophe.

Einstein and the other signatories explicitly compared Begin’s Herut (Freedom Party), born from the Irgun, to Nazis and Fascists, warning that their ideology of racial superiority and violent ethnic nationalism posed a grave danger to the moral and political future of the new state.

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Full text of Einstein and Hannah Arendt's letter to the New York Times:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
December 2, 1948
Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created State of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.
The current visit of Menachem Begin, leader of this party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections and to cement political ties with Zionist elements in the United States. Several Americans of national repute have lent their names to welcome his visit. It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world could condone, even by silence, the appearance of such a party in Israel.
Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultra-nationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority. Like other fascist parties, they have been used to break strikes, and they have encouraged demoralization among labor. In their actions they have been marked by cruelty and contempt for human life.
During the recent past, they have systematically terrorized the Arab population, attacked Jewish settlements, and sabotaged the rescue of displaced Jews from Europe.
A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war and had even fought off Arab bands that wanted to use it as their base. On April 9 (1948), terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants — 240 men, women, and children — and kept a few of them alive to parade through the streets of Jerusalem.
Most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent an apology to King Abdullah of Transjordan. But the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of it, widely publicized it, and invited foreign correspondents to view the corpses and the ravaged village.
The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and actions of the Freedom Party. Within the Jewish community they have attempted to institute a reign of terror, have beaten up Jews who opposed them, and have, by gangster methods, terrorized the population.
It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world could condone, even by silence, the appearance of such a party in Israel.
The undersigned therefore take this means of publicly presenting a warning to the American people concerning a danger to be found in the Freedom Party in Israel, a danger to which the leadership of Menachem Begin gives the greatest emphasis.
(Signed):
Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, Irma Lindheim, and 22 other Jewish scholars, writers, and public figures.
(Published December 4, 1948, in The New York Times.)

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This interview with @frankwrighter, a mostly unknown citizen of the UK, is rightfully getting a lot of attention. His primary points, expressed with remarkable clarity and independence of thought:

* Market worship by conservatives (Tories) has degraded society into soulless commoditization of human beings.

* Neoliberal globalism deliberately obliterates identifiable culture and civilization in favor of one undifferentiated global mass of limitless consumerism, along with the destruction of dignity, community and work.

* Western democracy is driven by branding exercises based on promises that are cynically designed never to be fulfilled.

* Echoing the broader populist-right European view (except for Nigel Farage/Reform): The Trump/Netanyahu Iran War and others wars like it are fought for a tiny class of global elites, bringing nothing of value to ordinary citizens except debt and destruction.

* The driving force behind these wars is Israel and these wars are fought for its interests.

He's at a Restore Britain rally, but the overlap with a lot of populist left views is extremely obvious:

[Fearghal O'Lideacha @fleddy44]

@stellaomalley3 Congratulations Stella!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

🇩🇪What happened to German legal scholars who once contributed to develop int’l law? Where are the think tanks/foundations that once drove debates on justice?
Fellow Germans: please wake up and help face the crisis your country is helping to shape at the heart of Europe. Again.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨This short film exposes the true story of Israel's creation, entirely through the words of its own founders

For decades, Israel’s lies have been carefully designed to demonize its victims. To ensure that no matter the crimes it commits, the children it slaughters, the world remains incapable of empathy for Palestinians, or at best, treats it with the same apathy that has allowed this to go on for as long as it has

On the 78th anniversary of its creation, it's time the world knew that Israel's past is not different from the brutal present the world is finally seeing

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WOW!

@Theintercept reviewed more than 12000 print articles and 5000 TV segments to check for biases on Israel-Palestine.

I thought it would be bad.

I had no idea it was THIS bad.

No wonder Gaza killed what little credibility mianstream media had.

In NYT, Israel's right to defend itself was invoked 99 times. Only once for Palestine.

On CNN and MSNBC, it was invoked 755 times for Israel. But only 8 times for Palestine.

Emotive words such as slaughter and massacre were used frequently when Israelis had been killed. They were NEVER used in print when Palestinians were killed.

In Ukraine, 262 children were killed in the war, and it was mentioned 4223 times.

In Palestine, more than 10,000 children were killed, but it was mentioned only 3632.

The full article is in the subtweet. It's a MUST READ:

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Mientras en Paris los franceses celebraban la derrota del nazismo, el 8 de mayo de 1945, el colonialismo francés se comportaba como Hitler en Argelia, matando a más de 45.000 argelinos en las ciudades de Setif, Guelma y Kherrata.

Aquel día los argelinos salieron a a las calles a celebrar la derrota de Hitler movilizados por los propios franceses, los manifestantes entre gritos de alegria y libertad por la caida del Tercer Reich, ondearon banderas argelinas por las calles para recordar a Francia su promesa de dar la independencia a Argelia... y la respuesta de Francia fue abrir fuego contra la multitud.

Un joven argelino llamado Bouzid Saâl fue el primer manifestante asesinado simplemente por ondear la bandera argelina, lo que encendió la rabia popular que enfrentó la ocupación colonial francesa.

El general francés Raymond Duval, ante las protestas anti-colonialistas, aquel 8 de mayo ordenó "disparar a todo aquel que lleve una bandera argelina", aplicando una masiva represión a gran escala, persiguiendo y masacrando a todo aquel argelino que pidiera independencia.

Las fuerzas de ocupación francesas mataron a 45.000 personas desde el 8 de mayo hasta el 26 de junio de 1945, lo que empezó con una celebración contra el fascismo acabó siendo una masacre fascista del colonialismo.

Hasta el día de hoy, no ha habido una disculpa estatal formal de Francia a Argelia por las masacres de Setif, Guelma y Kherrata.