Terry McDonald

This is beyond horrifying. New data shows Israel has killed over 680,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Among them: • 380,000 infants under 5 • 99,000 children over 5 That’s 479,000 children murdered by Israel. Israel isn’t “defending itself.” It is wiping out Palestinian life.

For some victims of the Irish Civil War there's basically nothing on the internet about their lives, quite sad really. One young woman, Miss Harrison, barely got a mention - even at the time in 1922. I went through archives to try tell a little about her death and life. /1

@Lightning_Seeds The peerless Terry Hall. Taken far too soon.

30 years ago today we played 'Sense' live on TFI Friday with our friend Terry Hall.

Happy birthday to Jonathan Richman, 75 today!

They killed 3 children in Gaza today, in the midst of a supposed ceasefire, but they’re Palestinians so their lives don’t count. I am trying to imagine the media coverage of Hamas killed 3 Israeli children today.

Israel did it in 1948 Israel did it in 1956 Israel did it in 1967 Israel did it in 1982 Israel did it in 2002 Israel did it in 2008 Israel did it in 2014 Israel did it in 2021 Israel did it in 2023 Israel did it in 2024-25 Israel currently doing it in 2026 78 years of genocide

Right now, Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos is at the Nakba Day demonstration in London. The 88-year-old has attended almost every demonstration in the last two year’s protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Stephen stands and sits with family and members of his group the ‘Holocaust Survivors & Descendants Against the Genocide in Gaza’. He told us: "Today, we commemorate not only the 1948 violent displacement and dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs during the creation of the State of Israel. But the unlawful occupation of Palestinian land and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.” “Justice for the Palestinians must be demanded and fought for by peoples of the world to force their own governments to act to end Israel's genocide, occupation and apartheid.” “That is why these marches have been attacked so much – it is the threat we pose to injustice. And the symbol of solidarity and hope we represent.” Photo by: @misanharriman

"Criticism of Israel is not antisemitic " Retweet if you agree with Corbyn

A Gay Man who marries a Woman in 2004 is not some down trodden hero with a coming out hero journey . . . 2004 was not the middle ages He is a Liar that stole over 2 decades from a Woman who deserved better.

Have you seen the Rose of Tralee??? Full of 3rd generation Americans who’ve never set foot on Irish soil 😂! Suad was born in Sligo, is a medical scientist, a business woman & a community youth leader. If you believe the Rose competition has any merit, she’s a perfect candidate.

More than a week into the Royal Commission into Antisemitism, a disturbing pattern has emerged: testimony from Zionist lobby groups that routinely describes criticism of Zionism and Israel as antisemitic deepcutnews.com/p/what-weve-ac…

The British media is doing everything it can to make this mendacious, corrupt, incompetent, lazy, security risk the PM. Ask yourselves why? Why do they want that so badly, who benefits? It's not going to be the British people. Follow the money, always follow the money.

Can we all forget about the shitty news and just watch programmes about David Attenborough please?

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

A lovely piece about Jonathan Swift in the current issue of The New Yorker. Lots of references to Marsh's Library in it: newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Crazy isn't it Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party had an 'antisemitism crisis' and now Zack Polanski's Green Party does. While Nigel Farage's Reform party, with Nigel Farage and loads of Nazi lovers, doesn't. It's like it's some kind of scam used against Left Wing parties.

Let's stop the anti-feminist/anti-woman rhetoric. 1918 - My grandmother was born. It would be two more years before women had the right to vote in the US. 1941 - My mother was born. Women would routinely be fired for becoming pregnant. Marital rape and violence were par for the course and considered domestic issues, not crimes. 1968 - I was born. Women were still not admitted to many Universities. A woman needed a male co-signer for a lease or a loan. It would be 4 more years before women could run in the Boston Marathon. Don't be a fucking idiot hoping for male head pats. Learn some history. Not only do I remember when things were much worse and harder for women I lived some of it and my mother and grandmother live very small circumscribed lives because feminism had not yet done much of it's work.

I remember a moment when I was travelling on the number 93 bus home when I was young. In Putney a group of white men got on the bus. There was a family with South Asian heritage on the bus. A woman, a man and two young kids. The woman had a bindi applied and was wearing a sari. It took all of two minutes for the guys to start, extremely loudly, saying things like ‘I smell P*kis’. The man and the woman had to put up with this most of the way to Wimbledon. They could have left the bus and waited for the next one, risking that group honing in on them or worse, getting off with them somewhere where there weren’t people around. They could have challenged the scumbags at the risk of even worse racism or possible violence. Instead, their kids had to witness and be exposed to this kind of stuff at that age. Now, I bring this up because I was very young at the time and this moment was probably my first time understanding how consequence-free white racism was. It was the first time I’d seen it without eg my father being around to mollify or distract me. And nothing has really changed for non-white people in Britain. If you go to Tile Hill in Coventry on a Friday night as an Asian group of friends or East Asians, you’ll get a ton of shouted racist abuse from drunk racists with nothing better to do. So, while I empathise with Shrimsley, assuming that this odd parable whereby his presumably white son is randomly asked in a bar if he’s Jewish is true, then it’s barely scratching the surface of what non-white Brits have to face day-in, day-out without the option of saying ‘no, no I’m just as white as you’. If this comes as a shock to Shrimsley, he should be grabbing a giant gong and bashing it endlessly about the type of British racism that leads white people to horrifically assault Sikh women because they look to them visibly “Muslim” or indeed to Jewish men asked if they’re Jewish in bars.

1/2 A BBC producer from Moral Maze once asked me to come on to talk about a racist book. I asked who was on the panel, she went quiet then said Melanie Phillips. She added it was meant to be “robust” questioning and I told her to get stuffed.

If 41 Jews were killed in 24hrs, it would be called the nth worst antisemitic massacre since the holocaust. When 41 Lebanese are killed by Israel in 24hrs, it’s called a ceasefire.