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@jordsjailacc Online bullies who would crap themselves if they ever had to say the same things to someones face

Yesterday Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 2 year old Palestinian girl in the West Bank. If she was Israeli you’d see her picture and hear her name on every news station. Her name was Laila al-Khatib and this is her….. Israel has murdered over 3000 toddlers in the past 12 months, just like Laila their crime is just being Palestinian.

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me: From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

@SweeneySteve Animals. Actually I take that back, I like most animals. Israelis are lower than any animals.

We arrived in southern Lebanon earlier today just moments after a sniper killed a civilian who was trying to return home. A Civil Defence worker was also shot while trying to recover the body. Another day, another Israeli war crime.

One of the protestors removed from the Holocaust memorial event in Dublin on @NewstalkFM being asked what she objected to. She rabbits on about nazi Germany, confused as fuck and has not explained anything Michael D Higgins as antisemitic. Classic zionist illogic. Karen on acid.

@SCynic1 He has railed against injustice and racism his entire life. You are obviously indoctrinated in zionism to the point where you cannot see the most blatant racist on the planet ie. Israel. And yes thank for saying we deserve him, youre not fit to lick his shoes

Here is a racist using the Shoah for his own purposes. It’s a shame he’s the president of a country. But, in the end, people get the leadership they deserve.

@DrEliDavid Get your facts right you idiot, he did not make an antisemitic speech.Youre trying to deflect from the ongoing occupation of Palestine and attacks on Lebanon involving a 2 year old child being shot in the head.

You can't make this up: The antisemitic president of Ireland 🇮🇪 gave an antisemitic speech condemning Israel 🇮🇱 during the International Holocaust Day, and when Jews in the audience protested, they were kicked out 👇

@Fx1Jonny A perfect illustration of how they make their own reality. They create narratives to suit their own agenda and actually believe them to be true. The rest of the world calls it lies.

I don’t know what to say to this?! “If a guy stares at you 10 minutes straight 5 -6 times a day, everyday for 54 days, trust me that’s rape” That is 1 unhinged individual 😐

@rfwalsh86 Just give Ian a pat on the head a gold star and put him back in the corner, he needs a little attention now and again

I'm curious - does Ian know the serious damage genocide does to people's lives? Does he care? US & Israel are responsible for genocide. Those unhappy with Higgins support genocide. I'll happily defend anyone calling for peace, equality & end to genocide like President Higgins.

@caitoz It may be an eclectic mix but they are all racists. They see brown skinned impoverished (by Israel) people and their brain says Not like me>inferior, they see pale skinned clean "Israeli" (could be from US/UK/anywhere) and brain says Look like me>superior

Getting a nice eclectic mix of American rightists telling me "Stop calling it ethnic cleansing, Trump's just trying to rescue those people from a destroyed Gaza!" and Israeli rightists going "Haha yes, Trump will help us ethnically cleanse the terrorists and their spawn." Trump supporters are such shitbrained, knuckle-dragging bootlickers. They're all up in my replies going "Well what do you expect Trump to do? What other possible solution is there but to empty out the population of Gaza to neighboring Arab countries?" And of course the obvious humanitarian solution is a heroic multinational push to rush massive amounts of aid to Gaza while rebuilding it at the expense of the states who destroyed it — but nope, they can't even entertain that possibility. Only possible solution is to bend over backwards to give Israel the exact thing it's desired from Gaza for many years, which will just coincidentally happen to delight Trump's Zionist megadonors. Worthless human livestock. Trump supporters claim to oppose wars and despise the neocons, but are always consistently paced into supporting all the worst agendas of the nastiest swamp monsters in Washington. Trump supporters are George W Bush supporters LARPing as Ron Paul supporters.

The shot a her in the head in front of her pregnant mother.

@_FeachNews Another one of Ian's "friends". They are all over the world you know😂😂🤡

Ian O'Doherty has a friend in America who is angry at Ireland. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@TheNotoriousMMA This dipshit being fed zionist propoganda and cant even repeat it properly. In what dimension does this caveman use the word "lauded"? Off of his head again...

To raise the flag of a terrorist organization on Irish soil must become a major crime in the eyes of our state. It will not be tolerated nor lauded! Raise a country flag, off your own person, and off of government buildings, yes, no problem. Raise the flag of radicalized terror organizations off of the same.. Big problem. #PeaceInTheWorld #NoToTerror

@PresidentIRL Excellent speech President Higgins, as expected. Such a pity that so few presidents and world leaders can countenance such aspirations and beliefs.

President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina this afternoon attended the National Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration at the Mansion House in Dublin. Your can read the President’s address at president.ie/en/media-libra…

@proud_native_am Greetings from Ireland

Lakota

@TheSocialistDad I am intrigued. It really feels like this version of labour has been a long-term israeli project, just like the US.

@JoeBrolly1993 Well that is how they stole America. Then stole people from foreign countries to work that stolen land to make money. America was founded on theft, murder, cheating. Nothing changes....

Trump calls to "clean out" Gaza and move Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan - ethnic cleansing is okay if America is doing it. apple.news/A93hxo91kTuuhC…

🚨BREAKING: Two-and-a-half-year-old Laila Mohammed Alkhateeb was tragically killed tonight after being shot in the village of Mothalth Ash Shuhada, near Jenin, by the Israeli army.

@philipnolan1 @John71610523 Sweet Jesus. What I want to know is What did the Apes ever do for us?

@John71610523 I love that one, and the moles/Social Democrats one, but this always will be the gold standard of stupidity. 🤣 #fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4a0dd0f2,vid:DvVMWfOmFTs,st:0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">google.com/gasearch?q=wea…

Guess the city. First team says Madrid. Second says Paris. Staggering. 🙄 #PointlessCelebrities

@marklevinshow Why do Americans think they have a right to interfere in other countries business? Everything they touch turns to shit for decades, they cant run their own cesspit so fuck off!

Great idea ... Egypt and Jordan take in Palestinians from Gaza aol.com/news/trump-sug…