Pat O'Connor

Seán Farrell, CEO of @Trocaire, in today's Irish Times. Gaza is slowly disappearing from the news cycle, but Palestinians are still being killed and children are waking in tents full of rats and disease. It's unconscionable. Read the letter, demand action: irishtimes.com/opinion/letter…

A nationwide general strike was organized in more than 75 cities across Italy, demanding a complete boycott of Israel and the severance of all ties. Do u support this??? YES👍__OR__NO👎

Mehdi Hasan asked an Israeli lawyer if he was shocked by the NYT's piece on Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian detainees. His answer? 'Of course not.' Not because it's false. Because it's old news. Al Jazeera reported it in 2024. He testified about it in 2025. B'Tselem issued reports. Even Israel's own public defender wrote about the torture. Rape by dogs. Women shackled to metal tables for two days. Men raped three times-after being hospitalized. Children threatened with sexual abuse. Palestinians have been saying this for years. So what's new? Nothing. Except the New York Times finally published it.

Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir: "We have a plan for settlement in Lebanon, and we also have plans to encourage the emigration [of Palestinians] from Gaza and the West Bank." Not "emigration," but ethnic cleansing plans.

🇫🇷 Former French Ambassador to Israel and the US, Gerard Araud: “What is happening in the West Bank right now is an absolute scandal.” “What is actually happening is ethnic cleansing carried out by ‘settler’ Israelis.” “Europe’s silence on this is also a scandal.”

It was not possible Kevin Backhurst said to provide info on Derek Mooney’s salary from 2020-2023. Now we know he was in the top 10 paid presenters for that period too. So he should have got that 15% cut.. interesting that no one wants him to repay it… hum.. @kevinbakhurst

🚨Instead of opening an independent investigation into testimonies published by the New York Times about rape, sexual torture, and abuse of Palestinians inside Israeli detention centers, Israeli officials launched a coordinated campaign against journalists, human rights organizations, victims, and witnesses. The @EuroMedHR stresses that these abused and crimes are supported by extensive documentation from U.N. experts, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, Palestinian rights groups, and testimonies from released detainees, describing repeated patterns of sexual violence, forced stripping, threats of rape, degrading treatment, and torture. Euro-Med states that Israel continues to block independent access to prisons and detention centers while attacking those documenting the abuses, warning that impunity is enabling systematic crimes that require urgent international investigation and accountability under international law.

As Health Secretary, Wes Streeting deepened the privatisation of our NHS and handed over our data to Palantir, a company involved in genocide. I am sure his friend Peter Mandelson is very proud. Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service — and kick Palantir out!

@vonderleyen @POTUS You got any problem supporting a regime that accepts raping 13 year olds??

🚨ISRAEL RAPED A 13-YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN CHILD When the US State Department complained to Israel's gov, the IDF raided the NGO that documented the case of rape, "removed their computers & declared them a TERRORIST ENTITY" per Josh Paul today, (former) Senior State Dep official

🚨🇫🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a candidate for the French presidency: "The ongoing genocide in Gaza must cease. The colonization must end. The EU-Israel association agreement must be suspended. War criminals must be tried."

Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites in Islam, where he waved an Israeli flag and made nationalist remarks ahead of Jerusalem Day. The location is also sacred for Christians and Jews.

BBC: Israeli marchers chant "from the river to the sea" - meaning all of Palestine. "We captured it. It's rightfully ours." A far-right minister plants an Israeli flag next to Al-Aqsa. In the Christian quarter, settlers attack Palestinians This is not a fringe. This is mainstream. This is Israeli society revealing itself

Large crowds of ultranationalist Jews gathered Thursday at the foot of Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, chanting racist slogans like "Death to Arabs" and "May your villages burn" as they began an annual parade through the Palestinian areas of the Old City. to.pbs.org/4nq2xTm

Excellent questioning by Sarah Mc Interney who put it to Kevin Backhurst that the designation of Derek Mooney as producer meant that he avoided the 15% wage cut for presenters and was in effect a ‘side hussle’’. His answer was less than satisfactory… @RTE1

@briantashman Can the @UN have a word with the @IntlCrimCourt about issuing an arrest warrant for him? Thanks.

78 years ago, 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. Britain made it possible. Today, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Britain made it possible. 78 years of the Nakba - and 78 years of British complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people.

The media spent 2.5 years telling you this is “targeting Hamas.”

UN says it's genocide. HRC says it's genocide. PVA says it's genocide. ICJ says it's genocide. ICC says it's genocide. Anyone who knows anything about genocide says it's genocide. Everyone is lying except Israel who are committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

He says it openly. The expansionism, the ethnic cleansing, the displacement of indigenous people,none of it is hidden anymore. And the crowd applauds, because this ideology does not begin or end with Netanyahu, Smotrich, or Ben-Gvir.