Brendan Lawrence

My final message from the Handala.

I have never felt so shaken. Children are dying of hunger. Falling one after another, like petals of a dying flower. Under our watch. How do you sleep, Presidents, Foreign Ministers, political leaders, diplomats, civil servants - doing nothing to stop Israel’s starvation campaign? PS: Talking politics while dodging genocide perfectly meets the definition of doing nothing.

Epic!

BREAKING!!! - 11:18PM UK time; I am with the flotilla online. They have just been reached by the Israel speedboats - 5 vessels circling the flotilla. The captain is instructing the team to stay calm and seated, with their passports and life jackets on. I hear them speaking with Israeli soldiers as I type... telling they are carrying humanitarian aid and go in peace. For the time being they are just circled. I am with them, recording everything.

It breaks me to submit reports that no longer detail the genocide: I ask forgiveness from victims & survivors. Now I must focus on accountability—too many profit from Gaza’s destruction. My June HRC report exposes private actors. My October UNGA report will focus on States: submissions open👇 ohchr.org/en/calls-for-i…

No words. The genocide in Gaza is taking disturbing new turns with every passing day.

UNICEF: "Food, water, medicines, everything for a child to survive is being blocked, and in many ways boastfully blocked." "So the only thing entering Gaza right now is bombs." "This is ... a profound moral collapse. And no one is going to escape the cost of this indifference."

Why isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?

How did we get here? How did we let an army announce to the world the destruction of a people, and then level every home, seize every field, shatter every possession they had—even with laughter. How did we let them kidnap, torture, and rape—even with dogs. And now, starve them—even the children. And what unshakable belief blinds us to what we—collectively—have done. May they have mercy.

Israel must be stopped by all means necessary. Do you hear me? All means necessary. - Today I'm going to do something I haven't done throughout all this, and I may pay a heavy personal price for it. It is worth it for me. I'm not going to be particularly respectful of laws and norms, and I may get deplatformed, banned from the internet, or removed from existence altogether. It's a risk I'll take. Just make sure you have a screenshot of this to share with your people. The time has come for the use of extreme and unusual means, as everything else has failed. - Israel is about to end the lives of 1 million Gazans, and your Western government is helping it and will continue to help it. That's the reality. How do I know it? It is simple. 1. Israel is preparing for its biggest move on Gaza to date, using hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Israeli ministers are openly saying this is going to end Gaza. 2. We have seen everything Israel has done so far. We can extrapolate. 3. Up to this very moment, your Western government has not instated an arms embargo against Israel, and has not changed the nature of its relationship with Israel. This means full support for every murder and displacement of every Palestinian man, woman, and child. It is simple. No change in stance and no change in cooperation means full endorsement. So it is now the duty of every pro-humanity activist in the world, wherever they are, to switch to a mode of extreme urgency. This means we must do everything to ensure that no airplane and no ship carrying military equipment is allowed to head out to Israel. This means it is our responsibility to stop life in its tracks throughout the West. This means every military personnel and every diplomat of every country must put humanity before the orders they have from their respective government, and sabotage and derail Israel's ability to carry out the extermination of the Palestinian people. - When your government is participating in the open extermination of human beings, it is not your privilege, it is your human duty to break the law. Activists for Palestine and people sympathetic to the cause of Palestine must realize that if they don't do something drastic now, there may not be a Palestine in just a few months. The only way to stop this is to become a huge and costly problem for your government. People need to get arrested in their many, many thousands, and do everything (except causing bodily harm to other people) to stop, disrupt, and sabotage Israel's genocide and the support of their government for it. So I am telling you - whoever you may be reading this - that you have the authority, privilege and duty to do whatever is necessary to stop Israel's extermination of Palestinians. Whatever is necessary. We are being subjected to a political system that has declared war on humanity and morality, and it is our right and our duty to fight using whatever means necessary. We cannot and must not be peaceful and obedient any longer. We must switch gears now, before Palestine is completely destroyed forever. Every day of this means death and debilitating injuries for hundreds of innocent people, and every Western government is supporting this. We, the people, have to do whatever we can to make it stop. Whatever is necessary. No more opining and complaining. Organize now to disrupt, sabotage, and stop it using whatever means necessary and fitting to save the lives of 1 million people.

Israel is commitring daily massacres while starving Gaza. Impossible to rigorously monitor and document every incident, with the dozens casualties involved: each massacre becomes history within 24 hours. Right now, focusing on anything else than genocide greenlights the genocide.

Calls For Controversial Hip Hop Group 'Israel' To Apologise For Murder Of 20,000 Children waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/05/02/cal…

Emergency: I received a distressed call from the people of the Freedom Flotilla that is carrying essential food and medicine to the starving Gaza population. I call on concerned state authorities, including maritime authorities, to support the ship and its crew as needed. I trust the competent authorities will also ascertain the facts and intervene appropriately.

The whole of the British establishment trying to silence @KNEECAPCEOL for saying what the rest of us think. If you want to talk about terrorists and killers, lets go straight to No.10 and the White House. That's the truth.

Yesterday BBC Scotland reported that Kenny Macaskill had attacked John Swinney's criticism of Irish band 'Kneecap' during a 'Scotcast' interview. What wasn't reported was that he also criticised Israel and the BBC. The interview quickly got away from Laura Miller who struggles to keep Macaskill in check. There's a clear edit at 7 mins 18 secs.

The GAA have gone after people sharing coaching content @noplanb is gone, and they seem to have contacted others to not post. And have been on a campaign to stop people using the term “GAA” Bananas stuff. They may have legal right to do that, it’s grey enough with money they receive from EU and government. And this is very typical of the GAA. They are always talking a big game and trying to scare people and bully them, especially round financial questions. But they have no right to stop anyone sharing free to air content. I’ve gotten legal advise on that But outside of any of that, Community association my arse. Croke Park and GAA administration is a corporation and acting as so. Gaelic Games on the ground is a true phenomenon and weekly I see the good it does and interact with the great people working for their communities in it. Croke Park is completely disconnected from that. More and more so every day

“There were no babies in ovens... No mass RAP€S..” —Dr. Gabor Maté to a Z10nist

Please take the two minutes for this. Irish barrister Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, counsel for the Palestinian State, at the International Court of Justice:

Meanwhile Israel is killing kids...every hour of every day... "The news"👇

KNEECAP STATEMENT: They want you to believe words are more harmful than genocide. Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral hysteria. Let us be unequivocal: we do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah. We condemn all attacks on civilians, always. It is never okay. We know this more than anyone, given our nation's history. We also reject any suggestion that we would seek to incite violence against any MP or individual. Ever. An extract of footage, deliberately taken out of all context, is now being exploited and weaponised, as if it were a call to action. This distortion is not only absurd - it is a transparent effort to derail the real conversation. All two million Palestinian people in Gaza are currently being starved to death by Israel. At least 20,000 children in Gaza have been killed. The British government continues to supply arms to Israel, even after scores of NHS doctors warned Keir Starmer in August that children were being systematically executed with sniper shots to the head. Instead of defending innocent people or the principles of international law, the powerful in Britain have abetted slaughter and famine. This is where real anger and outrage should be directed towards. To the Amess and Cox families, we send our heartfelt apologies, we never intended to cause you hurt. Kneecap’s message has always been — and remains — one of love, inclusion, and hope. This is why our music resonates across generations, countries, classes and cultures and has brought hundreds of thousands of people to our gigs. No smear campaign will change that. Suddenly, days after calling out the US administration at Coachella to applause and solidarity, there is an avalanche of outrage and condemnation by the political classes of Britain. The real crimes are not in our performances; the real crimes are the silence and complicity of those in power. Shame on them.