Damian Mc Kevitt

[Ahmed Kaballo @AhmedKaballo]

Let’s not fall for the lies about the North of Ireland.

These racist pogroms are taking place largely in loyalist areas and are being driven by reactionary elements of the British settler community. They have inherited the same racist and reactionary politics that have long been used to divide working people.

The ruling class has always needed immigration to keep the economy functioning, while simultaneously demonising migrants to create competition and resentment within the working class. The goal is simple: ensure that people’s anger is directed downwards or sideways at those with less power, rather than upwards at those who hold it.

Even these numbwits are not dumb enough to blame a whole community for the actions of one man. They are just using it as an excuse to act out all of their racist fantasies that are inherent in all settler colonial communities.

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

The Belfast Riots

[The Irish News @irish_news]

What is the truth behind immigration in Northern Ireland?

Queen’s University political sociologist Professor Katy Hayward explains how misinformation, fear and manipulation fuel unrest across Northern Ireland.

[LBC @LBC]

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

Belfast resident Mark gives @BenKentish a stark picture of the riots unfolding in his city.

[Adam Ramsay @AdamRamsay]

For anyone familiar with Belfast, the most obvious fact about the areas in which racist pogroms took place last night is that they are all Loyalist. The Scottish protests all featured Union flags. Yet the legacy media basically refuses to mention this: https://t.co/Dim66gUUQB

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Absolutely astonishing that there has been a two day racist pogrom in Northern Ireland and @Keir_Starmer hasn’t called a COBRA meeting.

QWHITE revealing!

[Pól DeBuitléir @PolDeBuitleir]

Senior loyalists involved in orchestrating racist attacks in Belfast

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

Belfast riots Ireland 🇮🇪 , the irony of it all is that the person who was stabbed is a native Irishman.

And the neighborhoods that were burned are British settler areas where Irish Catholics are not allowed to live.

[The Irish News @irish_news]

"As we watched cars being “checked for foreigners” and young families burned from their houses, it could’ve been Bombay Street, but with HD footage.

"The hatred has remained in place, it’s the target that moved."

Read Aoife Moore: https://t.co/UdtGIoYJap

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

These people have been burning out innocent families in the north of Ireland for as long as I’ve been alive. And mostly white, Christian families at that. Before a black face was ever seen in Belfast there were plenty of black hearts

[Pádraig Murchadhfinn @murchadhfinn]

“Lack of education, ignorance and, judging by the graffiti plastered in unionist districts, semi-literate stupidity all play a part, but so does lack of leadership from unionist politicians”
~Brian Feeney

The Irish News

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[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@ClaireHanna: "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"

[Deirdre Heenan @deirdreheenan]

Ben Lowry: "There's a determination to depict Unionists and Loyalists as more racist than anyone else. -That's entirely wrong "

Jackie Long #c4news

"But most of the chaos of last night was in Loyalist areas wasn't it?"

Ben Lowry: "Yes, it was” 🤔

#c4news #belfast

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

[Pól DeBuitléir @PolDeBuitleir]

We don’t have an immigration problem. We have a racism problem

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

1 in 20 Catholic families were burned out of their homes in Belfast in 1969.

As one scholar put it, at the time it was "the largest forced population movement in Western Europe since the Second World War."

[CP MacLochlainn @CPMacL2008]

Hundreds of loyalists are rampaging through the streets of Belfast in scenes reminiscent of the anti-Catholic programs 50 years ago. The target of the attack has changed but the ideology remains the same - vile racist supremacism dressed up as "security concerns"

[Squinter @squinteratn]

Jonathan Buckley has told @StephenNolan the police were “quite literally agitating for a fight” in Scarva.
Absolutely no pushback.
Don’t the hero Peelers you’ve been covering lately deserve better, Stephen?

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

sometimes a picture paints a thousand words

[Cllr Adam Gannon @CllrAdamGannon]

Fairly disgusting scenes at Scarva yesterday. Along with unbelievable behaviour from an MP here, from Carla Lockhart, "commending" thugery and masked men hurling abuse.

This isn't the sort of thing that should be happening, let alone an MP supporting it.