Kieran Walsh

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

So if you apply this logic to the 4,000 citizens of Lebanon that Israel has killed in their invasion, you’d have to ask how the US would react to an invading force killing 235,000 Americans, many of them women and children.

You really don’t want to do this calculation for Gaza.

[Alex 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @foleywoley]

I have watched Israel decapitate children, burn people alive, rape people to death, maul a disabled man to death with dogs, bomb schools, starve an entire population, and shoot children in the head, but somehow I'm supposed to believe that Ben-Gvir's actions "aren't the spirit of Israel."

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

A touch of class.

#FaCupFinal #FACupWinners #guardiola #pep #pepguardiola

[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

[IRAN EMBASSY in KENYA @IRANinKENYA]

Good phone call, Chancellor? Let's walk through this slowly. (1) you wetserns need to learn how to address us, swap "must" for "can". Demands don't land here. (2) you seem to have forgotten we were already at the negotiating table, twice, until @POTUS & his genocidal Zionist allies
bombed it, twice. Memory is inconvenient, we know. (3) the Strait is closed by a US blockade, not by us; uppercase/lowercase matter. (4) we don't care whether you "allowed" us or not. We never wanted, never want, and never will want a non-peaceful nuclear program. But a peaceful one? That's our inherent right, and we're not leaving it. Now, shall we schedule your next phone call, or does Berlin think it can handle reality on its own this time?

[John Hussain @johnhussainpres]

Under international law, you had to arrest Netanyahu

[Pádraig Murchadhfinn @murchadhfinn]

“…regime change is now required in Washington and Tel Aviv and such irresponsible, unchecked abuse of power should never be possible again”
~editorial

The Irish News

☕️🥐

[Blunt @Shinamuller]

Picture this exactly like the opening scene of Wag the Dog.

A slick Hollywood satire where a president cooks up a fake war just to bury his dirty little secret. Only this is not fiction. This is Bibi’s Israel in April 2026.

He sat in the big chair. Flags behind him. Cameras rolling. The brave warrior of Israel.

While the world watched him play tough more than 9600 Palestinians sat rotting in his jails. Over 3500 of them locked away with no charge no trial no voice. Kids. Women. Fathers. All branded threats so the occupation could keep running smooth.

Democracy he preached. Rule of law he shouted from every stage.

Now Sunday was coming. The corruption trial bribery fraud breach of trust the one paused for his fresh war was about to crash back open.

And the big man started to shake. Not from rockets. Not from enemies. From the simple sound of a courtroom door. Sweat on the brow. Phone calls flying. Iran. Lebanon. Anywhere. Start another fire. Drop more bombs. Keep the gavel from falling.

Cowards do not face justice. Cowards build body counts so the cell door stays shut.

Brave men stand when the music stops. Bibi hides behind the smoke the flags the dead praying the war never ends.

Real Hollywood stuff. Except the credits never roll.

The world watches the screen. Some laugh at the show. Some cry at the bodies. Most do both at once.

[Almut Rochowanski @rochowanski]

EU citizens should sign this European Citizens' Initiative to suspend the EU-Israel association agreement (=free trade). This is a powerful constitutional tool, which at 1 mil signatures forces EU bodies to take action (see ⬇️). It's already at 750,000.
https://t.co/p4cwjBCu43

[Marci Shore @marci_shore]

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

[Colin Sheridan @colinivan]

Trump - Irelands ally - threatens to obliterate a 12,000 year old civilization, all while Whitey's on the moon

[goma @soigomaa]

Interesting how wars are named after the country attacked: Vietnam War, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Iran War... That's because if they were named after the attacker, it would be too confusing, since 80% of conflicts would be called the US war.

[William Peynsaert @PeynsaertBill]

Stuck on a fridge in Gaza
Dear mum, my phone was destroyed in the blast, so I was not able to contact you. I feel so dumb for not memorizing the phone number of my own mother. You will shake your head and curse generation Z again.

I don’t know if you are alive and I don’t know if you would return to our apartment if you were. Your entire life was between these walls, so I reckon you will. Am assuming you will have run into neighbours and you have already heard the news. Taleen and Sami did not make it out alive. If it’s any comfort am sure both never saw it coming and passed on to a better world instantaneously. I should also stress that the last night they went to bed, they did so with full bellies. It was the last day me and Fares managed to take the boat out to fish. The zionists shoot at any boat now, no matter how small. They didn’t suffer and they had a decent last meal. I know you will suspect am only saying this to dimish your grief, but it’s the truth. And maybe am making things far worse by telling you all this. I feel their spirit around me every day and I know that wherever they are they are helping me stay safe. Like the other day a sudden allergic reaction made me sneeze like twenty times in a row and it made me stop in the street. If I had continued walking I’d be dead now, because a building was struck less than 20 yards ahead of me. A woman’s shoe landed in front of me. It had a foot in it. Without thinking I picked it up intending to bring it to someone, I don’t know who, until I realized I had someone’s foot in my hands and I dropped it and started vomitting. Only some transparent slime came up. It burned my throat. This explosion didn’t injure me.

When our home got hit I had a few broken ribs and a metal rod, probably from one of the window casings, pierced my left shoulder like an arrow, but nothing vital was hit and it now only hurts if I put my arm behind my back, stretch or try to lift something over my head. Most things I can do without any pain. I refused pain killers, because there are so many cases that are worse off. To be burned is always the worst, but you know that in Gaza there was no proper treatment for burn victims even before the healthcare system was driven to collapse. Sorry, am rambling. You know how I start rambling the more tired I am. Apart from being tired am fine though.

Am afraid to tell you where am going, because you never know who finds this note. But I will be as safe as is reasonable to expect. I swear to you I will name my first born children Taleen and Sami and I will tell them all about them. Every possible detail. Like how Taleen preferred to eat dry cereals with no milk and how Sami wandered off one day when he was 3 and an old man brought him back , carrying him in his neck, and Sami pointed at the man and said: ‘I got me a donkey at market. He good donkey.’

This is where the note ends. In a different handwriting is added: ‘Hello baby, we came to finish the job of our airforce.’

Instead of the note, the young man was taped to the fridge, and the note slammed into his chest with what looked like those hooks you use to fix a tent to the ground. Cause of death was blunt force to the head. The butt of a gun most likely.

The mother, after finding her son in the bombed out kitchen, has adopted an orphaned girl. The girl is maybe 3, maybe 4, and only repeats the words: ‘Cover your head, my greatest treasure, cover your head, daddy loves you.’

She wishes she could tell the girl about her parents, but she doesn’t know any details, except that the father was a skilled engineer, but made a modest living as a website designer. Not something the girl can picture. Probably best not to make her think of her parents. The girl only survived because she was found under a huge pile of old phone books in an expensive oak wood chest with holes drilled all over the sides. At the hospital they said it was the cleverest improvized shelter they had found at a blast scene. Too bad it had only been large enough for the girl.

The mother regretted not having died in the blast at her own apartment, but she tried to find comfort in the idea that God had decided she had to find this orphan and raise her. Perhaps some great result was supposed to come from her caring for the girl.

Every second of every second she felt her heart cracking open to convert the longing for her own three children into loving dedication to only this one girl. The girl will have 30 grandchildren and every single grandchild will be a stinging defeat for the Israeli ‘only when murdering do I not feel weak and fragile’ cult.

On the back of her son’s note she has written:

‘I could be sad and shattered for losing you or I can rejoice for having been so unbelievably blessed with your presence in my life for 17 years. I choose the latter.’

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

Rubio: Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military

Trump, two days later: We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the terrorist attack on the Iranian bridge, promising further attacks on civilian infrastructure if its demands aren't met

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

Hegseth is correct: it's terrible when a government driven by a radical ideology invests in weapons instead of its people.

The Trump Administration spent $12 Billion to bomb Iran, and
The Pentagon asked for a supplemental *$200 Billion* for the Iran regime change war.
Remember, 20 million Americans saw their health care premiums double because Trump didn’t want to spend $30 billion.

[Johnny AGI @JohnnyAGI]

We bombed a city in Iran with a civilian population of 10 million.

For hours.

We somehow 'accidentally' launched missiles through 4 separate elementary schools.

With kids inside.

We destroyed a freshwater supply plant that 30 villages rely on for drinking water.

And for what?

Trump saw what Netanyahu was doing to Gaza and said "hold my beer."

I'm not willing to pretend we're the good guys here.

Trump is clinically insane and he needs to be removed from office.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the United States wages wars to promote humanitarian interests and bring freedom and democracy to oppressed populations.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe that US soldiers fight and die to protect their country and its citizens.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe US military interventionism in the middle east has anything to do with women's rights or making life better for women.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe good things come from the US military attacking middle eastern nations and toppling their governments.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US government tells the truth about its wars and the reasons it wages them.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US are the Good Guys who are fighting evil Bad Guys like the heroes in a children's cartoon show.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US government is less murderous and tyrannical than the Iranian government.

It's not okay for grown adults to swallow obvious atrocity propaganda about horrific actions allegedly perpetrated by a US-targeted government.

It's not okay for grown adults to consume western news media about a war without extreme skepticism about all the information they're being fed.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US fights wars for self-defense.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the government that allows its own citizens to die of poverty and disease cares deeply about the plight of the Iranian people.

It's not okay for grown adults to support this war because of some shit that was written in the Bible.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the life of an Iranian matters less than the life of an American.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US military is used to make the world a better place.

It’s not okay for grown adults to believe this war will make Iran more free and democratic.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe this war will benefit anyone besides Israel and western oligarchs.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Zeteo ended up buying the rights to the Gaza doctors film that the BBC refused to air and you can watch it here:

https://t.co/6IHE69Y2Hc

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

The @LemkinInstitute strongly condemns the illegal war of aggression launched by Israel and the United States against Iran. We join the many voices globally that are calling for an immediate return to negotiations between the U.S. and Iran. This war of choice by the U.S. and Israel -- two of the world’s most aggressive powers -- must be stopped and the principles of the UN Charter must be clearly reaffirmed.

Wars of aggression are frequently the catalyst for genocidal violence. Most of them are undertaken by states and regimes that have committed genocide, are committing genocide, or plan to commit genocide. This one is no different. While the current aggression against Iran does not yet appear to amount to an attempt at genocide, the Lemkin Institute recognizes that the powers launching this war have a history of genocidal rhetoric, intent, and practice. The U.S. Military Religious Freedom Foundation reports that U.S. commanders are framing the conflict as a war against Islam, with one commander telling soldiers that “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” Such instructions to soldiers give this war a cosmic quality, which is highly correlated with the crime of genocide.

Furthermore, there is the risk that the U.S., as part of its efforts to impose a new order in the Middle East, will give a green light to expansionist ‘friendly’ states in the region, such as Israel, Turkey, and Azerbaijan, to take lands they have long coveted in Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Armenia, rendering specific communities within those states at high risk for mass atrocity. Particularly vulnerable are Palestinians, ancient Christian communities, Kurds, Yezidi and other national and religious minorities in Syria and Iraq, and Armenians in the Republic of Armenia. Ethnic minorities in Iran, including Azerbaijanis, Kurds, and Baluch, among others, are also vulnerable, particularly if they are perceived by Iranian authorities to be supporting the war against Iran.

The Lemkin Institute stands with countries who are rejecting this illegal use of force and who are looking for practical solutions to conflict in the Middle East. We hope that the war against Iran can become a spark for a renewed movement towards international peace and security, nuclear disarmament, and a commitment to multilateralism the world over.

Read the full Red Flag Alert: https://t.co/XY2KRRycgp