Peter William McNally

@NYCMayor Great. Now tell us what the arab armies tried to do to the jews in the fledgeling israeli state that caused this "Nakba"...

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

@TadhgHickey "These people..."

What is it with these people and protesting the right to rape

@jeremycorbyn It has been 88 yrs since the poor third reich decided to annex part of czechoslovakia, but the poor souls somehow lost the subsequent war and 7 years later lay in ruins and millions of its people had lost their homes. NAKBA!

It isn’t 78 years since the Nakba. It’s 78 years of the Nakba. Tomorrow, we will demonstrate in our hundreds of thousands against the ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people. Join us.

@Sarahjdublin Sorry ignore my question. Trans flag. You dont know what a woman is. Doubt you are capable of reason.

@Sarahjdublin Out of interest, what do you regard as a "legitimate state"? Is the irish state legitimate? The british, french, spanish? Just wondering what your criteria are. Especially considering none of the above came into existence following a UN resolution whereas...you know...israel did.

78 years of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid Israel is an illegitimate, terrorist state From the river to the sea Free Palestine 🇵🇸

@ReadaCronin Sinn Fein, the political wing of a paramilitary group which believes the Irish Army to be an illegitimate army would be much more trustworthy for our country's defence. A group that has literally killed irish people with car bombs...

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael cannot be trusted with our neutrality. They are actively trying to remove the Triple Lock, which would decimate our neutrality. Sinn Féin stands completely against this. In a world of uncertainty, our neutrality is our best defense. 📢 Bígí linn on Monday, 18th of May in the Osprey Hotel in Naas and have your say on Ireland's future. 📢

@LNBDublin Breaking newa: woman belonging to political wing of murderous terror group which imported weaponry from Libya claims moral high ground of dual use exports.

When it comes to Palestine, the Irish Government talk a good talk but behind the scenes they are as complicit as the rest.

@BladeoftheS The jews, in addition to controlling the economic and financial system and the climate and being master dog breeders are also rigging the eurovision song contest. And yet they are really bad at this genocide they supposedly love

This is because it is fixed. Boycott Eurovision.

@dankops992 @TadhgHickey Ah to be fair now, a fella's personal life should be off limits.

@PM32856 @TadhgHickey The ramblings of a completely unhinged divorcee.

They'll have to pretend there was a Synagogue nearby if they wanna get it on BBC

@GerryAdamsSF How many irish people did the IRA execute?

The Israeli Knesset has approved by an overwhelming majority a law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners from October 7 and prohibiting their release in prisoner exchange deals.

@61harpy @NormalIslandNws True

@PM32856 @NormalIslandNws And vice versa - see Southern Spain, where Christians took over Mosques and Synagogues and converted them to churches, when they chucked out the Jews and Muslims after the reconquest.

Technically, the "former synagogue" could be described as a "current mosque" 👀

@AbujomaaGaza So not an open air prison then?

This is how Gaza was before the Israeli genocide

@FranceskAlbs Imagine the devil claiming to appeal to people's consciences

I join Amnesty International in condemning #Eurovision and call everyone with a conscience not to watch it. BIG THANK YOU to the 5 countries who withdrew from the competition: Iceland! Ireland! Netherlands! Slovenia! Spain! Put Apartheid out of our lives.

@dlLambo Gaza's population has grown by about 1/3rd since the last time Bohs won the league

Rafah, a city thousands of years old. A picture from 2022 and today. This was the West's "red line". That Rafah would not be attacked. And still zero action against Israel. Zero sanctions. Zero arrests. They actually arm them. Why?

@dlLambo 2022 rafah looks pretty nice for an open-air prison

@BarryAndrewsMEP Very little evidence that the EU brought peace and prosperity to the continent. The most plausible explanation is the cold war divided up europe into 2 blocs. In fact, arguably the expansion of the EU into the former warsaw pact country has threatened the 20th century peace.

The EU brought peace and prosperity to our continent. And Ireland has benefited more than most. However, I find it difficult to celebrate today after what I witnessed this week in the occupied West Bank. We are still a force for peace and stability but our double standards as regards international law in the Middle East damages belief in the European project and undermines our vital support for #Ukraine. Europe must do better. #EuropeDay 🇪🇺🇮🇪

@yanisvaroufakis Given that you are an antisemitic marxist i dread to think what you'd have been doing the morning after kristalnacht. What were you doing on the morning of 8 october?

IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?" Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything? Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it! And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else. Francesca Albanese is that someone. She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen." Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name. And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity. Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people. There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased. There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled." There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.” Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks. She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape". Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence. What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik. These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named. Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable. We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know." Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise. So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that. A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything. Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky. Let us stand with her. Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now. [Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]

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La responsabilidad pública también implica la obligación moral de no mirar hacia otro lado. Es un honor otorgar la Orden del Mérito Civil a una voz que sostiene la conciencia del mundo: @FranceskAlbs, Relatora Especial de la ONU en el territorio palestino ocupado.