Steve Smyth

Ireland, Europe, Liverpool FC and comedy..... to name but a few. Beer helps.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

FIFA suspends/sanctions federations almost every week. They met over four times to discuss banning Israel and kept delaying it for “investigations.”

How much investigation does the most documented genocide in history need?

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

Extremist Jewish settlers are forcing Palestinian families out of their homes.

The Israeli police & army stand by and allow it to happen

This is state-sanctioned home theft

It is a continuation of Israel’s ceaseless annexation of Palestinian land since the 1940s

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Today, I asked the Foreign Office Minister to take action to halt Israel's illegal settlement expansion.

The best he could come up with was a completely baseless smear. What a total and utter disgrace.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

The IDF should be proscribed as a terrorist organisation

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Yes, I've played elite level sport where my particular job was running with a ball at feet at around 30kph+ multiple times a half.

6 ft 4, 95kg.

The tactical information given to me through a 7 day, not 3 minute period sufficed, as did the occasional squirt of electrolyte water per half.

My performance would not have been improved at all by a hydration or tactical break.

Pretty much like 99% of players over a 150 year period playing the most popular and most played sport on the planet by far.

So maybe you can tell me. When was the last time you put your fucking dorittos, big gulp and chicken wings down long enough to know what professional sportsmen need rather than advertising executives or couch potatoes who need to be told 6 times in 20 minutes to buy a Jeep Cherokee, Whopper or diabetes medication instead of just enjoying the sport?

[Richard @ricwe123]

That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.

What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.

This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.

And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

Routine destruction of Palestinian roads and water infrastructure in the Occupied West Bank, featuring the armored D9 Caterpiller produced in East Peoria, Illinois and provided free of charge using our taxpayer dollars.

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

@mhdksafa

[OT @olivertudge1]

Just a message to everyone telling young people to "toughen up" because you had it harder...
Fine. We'll cancel your winter fuel payments.
Toughen up. It's not that cold. Put a jumper on.

[The National @ScotNational]

Israel has committed genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity across Palestine, a UN commission of inquiry has said

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

The Zionists are outmaneuvering their opponents — even in their opponents’ opposition.

Every survey asking what percentage of American Jews “support Israel,” “back Israel,” or “oppose Israel’s actions” perpetuates the idea that the State of Israel is somehow the country of American Jews.

And that is Zionism.

Literally.

Zionism means Israel is not the country of Israelis, but the country of the Jews.

https://t.co/zxCjX3Ndzd

With Zionism:
“Israel is to the Jewish people what France is to the French people, Ireland is to the Irish, and Japan is to the Japanese.”
Without Zionism:
Israel is to Israelis what France is to the French, Ireland is to the Irish, and Japan is to the Japanese.

Anything that strengthens the first formula strengthens Zionism.
Anything that strengthens the second opposes it.

So when people say, “Look how many Jews oppose Israel’s actions,” that word “even” is doing a lot of work for Zionism.

The implication is that even Jews — who, by default, are presumed to owe Israel loyalty — oppose what it is doing.

That framing reinforces Zionism.

The polls should be of Israelis and American-Israelis, asking what they think of Israel’s actions.

Opposing Israel’s actions is not the same as opposing Zionism.

Supporting Israel’s actions is not the same as supporting Zionism.

The idea that Zionism is being weakened because many people, including Jews, oppose Israel’s actions is a mistake.

You can be a strong Zionist — meaning you believe Israel is the country of the Jews — and still strongly oppose what Israel does.

Just as someone can strongly oppose what his own country does while still believing it is his country.

Zionism is not acceptance of Israel’s actions.

Zionism is acceptance of Israel as the Jews’ country.

So long as Israel is perceived as the country of the Jews, Zionism remains intact — regardless of how many Jews criticize what Israel does.

The proper way to oppose Zionism is to change how Israel is perceived.

Israel must be perceived as the country of Israelis, not the country of Jews.

Like every other country, it represents only its citizens, to the extent that any government represents its citizens.

Jews who disagree with this are Zionists, regardless of what they think of Israel’s actions.

And this is the idea that must be defeated if Zionism is to be defeated.

(from Rabbi @yaakov_shapiro )

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

A man armed with an axe and other weapons entered a mosque in Manchester.

A woman wearing a hijab was hit by a car in southeast London.

A 36-year-old white Scottish man was charged yesterday after stabbing five people in an anti-Muslim hate attack.

An imam’s house in Bolton was targeted in an arson attack.

There have also been multiple attacks on mosques, including an arson attack intended to endanger life, a projectile attack, multiple incidents involving graffitis, and hate signs.

Not a single COBRA meeting. No dedicated officers to protect the community. Just a few tweets.

[Chris Donnelly @chrisadonnelly]

As intended, Israel demonstrates contempt for the US-endorsed deal by continuing its murder campaign to illustrate its capacity to act with impunity.

[Chris Donnelly @chrisadonnelly]

Something tells me these stabbings won’t precipitate riots nor claims about alien cultures being imported into Britain.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 If you’re keeping track at home:

- Obama: $1.7B in unfrozen assets/cash for 98% reduction in uranium & limit enrichment to 3.7%

- Trump: $24B in unfrozen assets/cash, $300B reconstruction fund, lifted sanctions in exchange for opened Strait under Iran/Oman control

[Settlers From Within @SettlersFW]

ٍSettlers provoked a Palestinian family, threatening to seize their home sooner or later, and boasted of government support, as one of them was quickly released after his arrest due to attacking the family earlier this year without any charges being filed against him.

[KUTUB @KUTUBProduction]

Israel flattened Beirut in 1982.

No Hamas. No Hezbollah. No October 7 to point to then.

Just 17,000 dead Lebanese and Palestinian civilians.

Even US president then Ronald Reagan, who armed Israel, called Begin furious after seeing a photo of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off and said “It is a holocaust”.

They killed so many innocent people that the survivors had no choice but to pick up weapons.

Then Israel had the audacity to keep using “Self-Defense” excuse every decade.

Israel didn’t stumble into endless war. Israel built it. Brick by brick.

Own it.

[Amanda Ferguson @AmandaFBelfast]

Online creeps crying about replies being switched off is never not funny. Grow up tantrum guys. I know not hating yourself and respecting boundaries is challenging for you - but lots of people think more of themselves than allowing abuse, lies, and racism on their timelines🤷🏻‍♀️

[Amanda Ferguson @AmandaFBelfast]

Tell me you don’t understand Irish history and geography in one tweet. There will never be a land border here again. Belfast isn’t Finchley, David. And it was you and your entitled pals who delivered the disastrous self harm Brexit so I’m afraid you just have to deal with it.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Palestinian anger” is such a weird way to frame ethnic cleansing.