Ciara Kennedy

Israelis No Longer Ahead in Americans' Middle East Sympathies Israelis no longer lead the Palestinians in Americans' sympathies, with independents' shift toward the Palestinians driving most of the change.

For the first time since @gallup.com began asking the question in 2001, more Americans sympathize with Palestinians (41%) than with Israelis (36%), a seismic shift with profound political implications. news.gallup.com/poll/702440/...

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

A drawing of the bronze statue of Molly Malone wheeling a cart with the title "Electrify Molly Malone: saps get zapped. They deserve it!"

I have a proposal

Israel begins invasions of Gaza’s Rafah, kills nearly 600 in 72 hours The army says troops are attacking the Shaboura in southern Gaza, and ‘strengthening’ operations in the central Strip.

The Houthi military spokesman , Yahya Saree, says that the group carried out a “qualitative operation” against Israel.

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I just saw Conor McGregor referred to as Andrew Tayto.

Annascaulians at the ready!

I LOVE Laika Party #EuroSong

Happy #EuroSong night to all who celebrate.

As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode I saw them killed by sniper fire and drones. Why doesn’t Labour condemn it? Why do arms keep flowing in Israel’s direction? asks retired professor of transplant surgery Nizam Mamode

‘Political power may require compromise and behind-the-scenes trade-offs, but there are some moral red lines that should never be crossed, whatever the political cost.
The genocide is the quintessential test of the moral courage of leaders in the 21st century.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ireland plans to send senior ministers to US for Patrick's Day to lovebomb Trump administration Senior sources have confirmed to The Journal that increasing the number of senior ministers going stateside is being considered this year.

Ireland plans to send senior ministers to US for Patrick's Day to lovebomb Trump administration jrnl.ie/6606232

My Kink Is Karma (Audio) - Chappell Roan YouTube video by Obsidian Music

This feels like an appropriate soundtrack for the Canadian, Mexican and Chinese response to theTrump Administration’s attempt at bullying youtu.be/NC3M7kIpAaY?...

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza in real time.

Advertising the seafront property for months, settlers all prepped… it’s disgusting how easy it is to let colonial tendencies run roughshod over the bodies of 1,000s of children, men & women.

#speirgorm #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #Resist

How about he stays in his lane and sticks to fucking up America?!

I just about managed to finish it, it didn’t get any better. I also really wanted to like it.

Eurosong: EMMY - Laika Party | Irish Eurovision 2025 (Official Audio) YouTube video by The Late Late Show

I am weak for this EuroSong finalists. A worthy tribute to Laika the dog 🐕 🚀 and it’s a bop! #Eurovision2025 #SpeirGorm

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EU Officials Will Claim Ignorance of Israel’s War Crimes. This Leaked Document Shows What They Knew. The internal EU document may strip European foreign ministers of “plausible deniability” in Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

If the European Union is an accomplice in what the international Criminal Court considers the war crime of civilian starvation and multiple crimes against humanity, how can the EU justify its continued existence?

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Opinion | The missing context from the Elon Musk salute We can’t have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil.

Elon Musk biographer here.

The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now.

Publicly. Daily.

The Post either knows this or should not be in business.

“What other liberal democracy, in the last year and a half, has killed 47000 people?”

To be fair @mcculld.bsky.social asked some good questions of Dana Erlich on @news.rte.ie this evening. #FreePalestine🇵🇸

Nice! I was very similar, I only deleted mine a little while ago. I now need to delete WhatsApp. That one is going to be more difficult, I need everyone else ti leave it too.

Remove the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism from the Programme for Government 2025 I've just signed this petition calling on the government to remove the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism from the Programme for Government. Will you sign too?

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#Gaza: The temporary ceasefire in #Gaza is a relief, but it comes after 465 days and 46,000 lives lost.

This is just the beginning of addressing the immense humanitarian, and medical needs.

All parties must respect the #ceasefire and ensure safe delivery of aid to those in need.

The EUs inaction is shameful. I’m probably being generous using the word inaction, the EU has actually been complicit in what has happened in Gaza over the last 15 months.

Week 67, Cork Palestinian Solidarity march.

Can we just reboot America?! It’s been glitching for years.

‘I realised we’re such hypocrites’: how growing numbers of US veterans were moved to protest over Gaza As images of the war flooded social media and news reports, disillusioned ex-military personnel increased their efforts to pressurise the administration to stop arming Israel

Vet: “I was like, ‘Are they seriously dropping 1,000lb JDAMs [highly destructive munitions] in one of the most densely populated places on Earth?’”
“It was so egregious, it was so insane, that we had to just call each other to make sure we weren’t hallucinating.”
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Jonathan Gullis looks like Ben Affleck if Ben Affleck weren’t famous.

If the Government thinks that Ireland would suffer very damaging retaliatory measures if it enacted the Bill, it should put that entire calculation into the public domain.
If they believe their judgment is soundly based, why hide it?

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