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Only a United Ireland lets us control our borders

@MrVirtueSignal @jack28273 Keep shouting in your little echo chamber buddy 😂

@heartattacksamy @jack28273 Not you. You're past help.

can loyalists and unionists just wake up, and at least read a little history of what israeli paramilitaries done to our British troops in the early 20th century. They are not the western worlds friend

@MrVirtueSignal @jack28273 I'll pass thanks

@jack28273 @heartattacksamy Hatred of Israel is central to both the far right and far left. Doesn't matter if it's Tucker Carlson or Hasan Piker. They're both wrong. Anyway, if you ever want to talk let me know.

@MrVirtueSignal @jack28273 No the context was you pointing at the French saying look over there. Then completely ignoring the point being made and your blatant hypocrisy. Good luck.

@heartattacksamy @jack28273 The context was the oil embargo of the 1970s and some very difficult 🇬🇧 diplomacy in the Middle East. Would you say Iran is our ally in the region now rather than Israel?

@MrVirtueSignal @jack28273 The Fench supplied the Exocet to the Argentinians as part of a weapons contract before the war broke out.After which they declared an arms embargo thus not completing their weapons contract with Argentina. Like you'd expect an ally would. Can't say the same for Israel can you?

@heartattacksamy @jack28273 The major missile threat came from the French Exocet. Should we be enemies of France?

@MrVirtueSignal @jack28273 Try the early 80's then.

@jack28273 If we're going to base our view of the world on situation in the 1940s we're going to make a lot of enemies out of allies and allies out of enemies.

@carlalockhart You literally stood side by side masked thugs yesterday as they hurled misogynistic abuse towards women. Clown!

This you? You think misogynist abuse is ok?

Christopher Jamieson, TUV councillor in MEA council liking a post for Loyalist terrorist Billy Wright. Nothing to see here.

@FightHypocrisy1 Im sure you'd agree then that masked thugs shouting "slut" at women across a river is misogyny? Fighting hypocrisy and all that.

Attacking a woman for her looks again. This is misogyny.

A thread on something from yesterday’s events in Scarva that I feel isn’t getting nearly enough attention. There has been plenty of discussion about the protests themselves. Plenty of discussion about individuals, groups, politics and blame. What I haven’t seen much discussion about is the treatment of journalists and media workers who were there to cover the event. Yesterday, I was stopped and surrounded on two separate occasions while carrying out my job. I was questioned, challenged and told I should leave. To be absolutely clear, I wasn’t intimidated. I’ve covered enough events over the past 3 years to know exactly what these situations are. I’ve been singled out before. I’ve been pointed at before. I’ve had people attempt to take cameras. I’ve had people try to block coverage. None of it is new. If being surrounded by a handful of people was enough to intimidate me, then I’d be in the wrong profession. The point isn’t whether I was intimidated or not. The point is that intimidation was clearly the intention. The purpose of stopping journalists, surrounding them, challenging them and telling them to leave isn’t to have a friendly conversation. It’s to make them uncomfortable enough to go away. That didn’t work yesterday and it won’t work in the future. I was told to leave. I didn’t leave. I stayed and continued documenting the event for hours afterwards. Like many journalists covering contentious situations, you find ways to continue doing your job. You take different routes, position yourself elsewhere and keep reporting on what’s happening. That’s part of the job. What shouldn’t be part of the job is the acceptance that journalists being harassed is somehow normal. Photographers had stones thrown at them. Other media workers were challenged, harassed and pressured to leave areas they had every right to be in. And the reaction is often a shrug of the shoulders and a “that’s just how it is.” It shouldn’t be. Nobody has to like the media. Nobody has to agree with every report, every headline or every journalist. But a free press has every right to be present at public events. We’re not there to participate. We’re not there to support one side or the other. We’re there to document what is happening and allow people to see events for themselves. What I find particularly strange is that many of the people involved in protests want attention for their cause. They want coverage. They want the public to know why they’re there. They want their message heard. Yet some of the same people then turn their frustration towards the journalists who are there to provide that coverage. It makes little sense. This isn’t about me. I’ll continue doing what I’ve always done. Yesterday won’t stop me attending the next event, and neither will the next attempt at intimidation. What concerns me is how normalised this behaviour has become. No matter who is protesting, what cause they’re supporting or what side of an argument they’re on, harassment and intimidation of journalists should never be accepted as simply “part of the job.” The right to protest matters. The right to report on those protests matters too.

@stiofanbruce_ Loyalists taking a leaf from the IDF playbook. Forcibly remove journalists so the crimes they commit can't be reported on.

Loyalism captured perfectly. They have absolutely nothing to offer anyone in a civilised society.

@cgall036 @carlalockhart you are a disgrace

Some of the abuse and threats levelled by counter-protesters at Scarva today, led by British MP Carla Lockhart during the March for Gaza in the north of Ireland.

@DStacks72 Another example of Zionist terrorism against British soldiers.

No real loyalist supports Israel. It’s embarrassing that a sizable number feel the need to back Israel simply because republicans support Palestine. Britain and Britain only. Fuck Israel.

@impongo22 @stiofanbruce_ There is literally Jews on the march 😂

@stiofanbruce_ THE ANTI JEWS MARCH

BREAKING: The pro-Palestinian march approaching Scarva has been temporarily halted after a large crowd gathered in a housing estate along the route. Police are attempting to clear the roadway and move residents back into the estate to facilitate the safe passage of the demonstration. Three water cannons have been positioned in the area as a contingency measure should disorder arise.

@michaelpierse And another. Young British soldiers hanged by zionist terrorists, their bodies then booby trapped to kill the soldiers tasked with removing them.

As the 80th anniversary of the bombing of British troops at the King David Hotel by Israelis approaches, British loyalists will be celebrating Israel. 91 people, 28 of them British citizens, now forgotten?

Loyalist logic - we don't want a sponsored walk against genocide to pass through our village so we will spray shite everywhere and pollute the local rivers. That'll show them. @deptinfra to investigate.

Nice bit of slurry spread by loyalist on the anti genocide march..hasnt dampen spirits and just shows them up for who they are. #freepalestine

@MidiaPetronilla @squinteratn Absolutely nothing wrong with a child at the front of a sponsored walk. Unless of course you're insinuating that the loyalist mob that's gathered there plans to attack them?

@squinteratn Of course they'll put a child in front, they're cowardly bastards.

Markethill Volunteers lead the Scarva counter-demo today. They are regulars at the Brian Robinson Memorial Parade. The September march is a tribute to a notorious UVF Catholic-killer. In YouTube footage the band is led on the parade by a child of about eight. Revolting hypocrisy.

@Sarahjdublin Thing is, unfortunately Ben Gvir is representative of the vast majority of Israelis.

Interesting how a single Irish man is considered representative of an entire nation What would the reaction be if I said Farage is representative of all Brits Or Ben Gvir is representative of all Israelis