Gary Dunne

Thankfully she is safe and I pray that continues forever - but you have to b kidding me that ur assessing as “sick” a country that would assassinate leaders and their families, when we have done precisely that against Iranian leaders and their family members. It’s either sick for everyone - and i argue it is - or civilian family members are fair game on all sides. The further u go down that path, the closer to a dark reality we will all get sucked into where no laws, no norms, protect anyone. Truly might makes right and the bloody law of the jungle in which none of us are safe.

I am proud to announce my first bill with the ambition to make public spending fully transparent in Ireland. Too often, taxpayers can see what is spent, but not what it was spent on. That must change. My Tender to Payment (Public Spending Transparency) Bill will create a golden thread from procurement to final payment, delivering greater transparency, accountability, and value for money for the public. businesspost.ie/politics/new-l… @DanielTMurray

Statement by the leaders of Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom on the situation in the West Bank. pm.gc.ca/en/news/statem…

@truthinthemiddl @MaryLouMcDonald I don't think so... other countries are already joining in ! 🙂👏 So now we can all keep our jobs AND be proactive in making Israel think twice about killing Palestinians, stealing their land, committing war crimes etc ! So Win Win ? ! x.com/MartinKonecny/…

@garysdunne @MaryLouMcDonald Comparing apples and oranges a different time and place and the fact is Israel more important to the US than Ireland is . Saving lives isn’t going to pay mortgages and bills and putting food on the plate for many . Plenty of ways other ways than self harm to our economy .

The Taoiseach’s decision to exclude services from the Occupied Territories Bill is unacceptable. Nearly 70% of Ireland’s trade with the occupied territories is in services. So Micheál Martin seeks to weaken the intent of the Bill. We won’t stand for it. Israel must be sanctioned. We need the Occupied Territories Bill passed and it must include services!

@EdwardDeLavigne @rtenews Despite claims to the contrary, numerous UN resolutions make it clear that Palestine is NOT Israeli territory. Under article 25 of the UN charter, UN resolutions are legally binding where stated in the resolution and therefore ARE intn'l law. ask.un.org/faq/15010

@garysdunne @rtenews It’s a political term Gary, U.N idiots use it. But it doesn’t actually hold any basis within international law, because Judea and Samaria (West Bank) is Israeli territory.

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence Helen McEntee has called for the European Commission to bring forward proposals to ban trade with the illegal settlements in the occupied territories rte.ie/news/2026/0522…

@truthinthemiddl @MaryLouMcDonald Ireland led the charge with BDS against apartheid in South Africa, numerous countries then followed suit... and it worked ! It can also work for Israel. Also - It's much better to say "I helped save lives" than to say "I preferred to save my job"... there are always other jobs.

@garysdunne @MaryLouMcDonald Gary the only people who will suffer more is the Irish people than the Israelis by taking such action . Jobs will be lost that is a FACT and so will our international reputation with the US . It would be economic self sabotage.

@mishtal @harriepw @mishtal Haven't you just exactly described the tactics of UKLFI against anyone who empathises with or supports the Palestinian cause ? You don't see the hypocrisy ?

@harriepw Hunt the Jew Hunt the ally of the Jew. Squeeze them out of mainstream life. The early tactics of the Nazis. But this isnt the 1930s - and this toxic nonsense will go nowhere. So - Yawn.

NEW: Three senior lawyers – including two members of the House of Lords – have been reported to the barristers' regulator over alleged misuse of professional status as patrons of UK Lawyers for Israel.

@EdwardDeLavigne @rtenews International law says otherwise. Numerous UNSC resolutions including 446, 465 and 2334 say that the Palestinian territories (West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza) are "occupied" by Israel. 👇

Yes, that’s because Helen McEntee is Irelands national airhead, and has no idea what she’s talking about. There is nothing illegal about Israel building new towns, homes and businesses in Israel’s own territory. Irelands ridiculous “Occupied Territories Bill” makes no sense, because Judea and Samaria (West Bank) is not “Occupied.” But don’t forget, Helen McEntee is an airhead, and that should be acknowledged. @HMcEntee, the term “Occupation” holds no legal basis within international law when referring to the situation in Judea and Samaria (West Bank). It is a political term and a blood libel that is used by antisemitic airheads like you ! Judea and Samaria is and remains Israeli sovereign territory. Israel may expand its control over its sovereign territory in any way it wishes in accordance with Israeli law, but don’t take my word for it @HMcEntee, listen to barrister and international lawyer @HausdorffMedia explain it to you in legal terms so that you understand the situation within the context of reality. Additionally, Turkey launched a military invasion of Cyprus on July 20, 1974. Since that time, Turkey has been occupying 36% of northern Cyprus. Roughly 120,000 Turkish settlers have been brought to the north, altering demographics. The occupation has resulted in ongoing human rights abuses and the separation of Greek Cypriot families from their homes. Unlike the so called “occupation” that the Paddystinian idiots in Ireland rant and rave about in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) that holds no legal basis within international law and is in fact just another baseless blood libel, Turkey’s occupation of Northern Cyprus is very much a real one ! So I would ask @HMcEntee aka Irelands National airhead, will Ireland be proposing a bill that imposes sanctions on Turkey ? Or is it just Israel, the Jewish state that Ireland has an issue with ?

@truthinthemiddl @MaryLouMcDonald To do nothing would be immoral. But merely "condemning" their actions is pointless because they just don't care. The only way to make them think twice about their actions is to hit them where it really hurts, in their pockets ! ... once it passes then more countries will follow !

@MaryLouMcDonald Some TDs in the Dáil actually understand the real consequences of blanket sanctions on Israel destroyed jobs, damaged reputation, and economic pain for Ireland.The woke loonies pushing this don’t care about any of that.

@john003 @rtenews So NOT a "ceasefire" then ?

@rtenews Israel would say they don’t just go and bomb civilians in Lebanon..They bomb Hezbollah targets..

An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon has killed six people, including two rescuers and a child, the Lebanese health ministry said, despite a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war rte.ie/news/2026/0522…

@rtenews "fragile ceasefire" ? If either side is continuously shooting at & killing people from the other side then how can it possibly be considered to be a "ceasefire" ? and why would any journalist continue to refer to a "ceasefire" which is so obviously defunct or at least ignored !

The government continues their approach of words without actions. These are the 77 TDs who voted last night against our bill to sanction the apartheid state of Israel (NOT included are those who didn't vote / weren't there): oireachtas.ie/en/debates/deb…

when Michael Moore took abandoned 9/11 first responders to Cuba to get free healthcare, revealing just how sick and depraved the US system that discarded them is. In return the US regime imposed a starvation blockade on the Cuban nation and people and is threatening to bomb them

This is one of the most important articles I've spent weeks to research and write that proves the following thesis : The Holodomor Was Not an Ethnic Genocide. Part 1: The Specific Claim at Stake: The Holodomor was not an ethnic genocide in the sense that the Holocaust was. The Nazi state identified Jews through racial laws based on ancestry, applied its destructive policy to Jews regardless of class or political behavior, built dedicated extermination infrastructure, and documented its intent openly in its internal records. None of these conditions was present in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-33. The Soviet state did not define Ukrainians as a racial enemy, did not apply its policy on the basis of Ukrainian ancestry, did not build dedicated machinery for Ukrainian destruction, and did not document any such intent. The man who first argued the famine was ethnic genocide, Robert Conquest, abandoned the thesis before he died. The Soviet apparatus that enforced the famine in Ukraine was staffed at every level by ethnic Ukrainians. Kazakhs, under the same Soviet collectivization policy, died at three times the proportional rate of Ukrainians without anyone calling that genocide. The regime that allegedly destroyed Ukrainians as a nation had spent the preceding decade aggressively building Ukrainian-language schools, publishing, and party institutions, and would spend the following decade expanding Ukrainian territory, granting Ukraine an independent United Nations seat, and presiding over Ukrainian demographic recovery. The internal documents of the Soviet state from 1932-33 do not speak of destroying Ukrainians. They speak of class war and grain procurement. Every major archival historian who has worked the post-1991 Soviet record (Davies, Wheatcroft, Tauger, Cameron, Pianciola) has rejected the ethnic genocide thesis. This article examines the evidence against it. The famine that swept the Soviet Union in 1932-33 killed millions. The best demographic estimates place Ukrainian losses between 3.5 and 5 million, with comparable proportional devastation in Kazakhstan and mass mortality across the Volga, the North Caucasus, the Kuban, and Western Siberia. It was caused by Soviet policy: forced collectivization, ruinous grain procurement quotas, and an ideological refusal to relieve the catastrophe as it unfolded. Stalin and the Soviet leadership are responsible for these deaths. None of that is in dispute here. What is in dispute is something far more specific. The claim that the Holodomor was an ethnic genocide, that Stalin engineered the famine to destroy Ukrainians as a national group, is a much narrower historical and legal proposition. It is the thesis of Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow (1986), of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands (2010), and of Anne Applebaum's Red Famine (2017). It has become the official position of the Ukrainian state and, increasingly, of Western parliaments. It is also wrong. The evidence (geographic, demographic, institutional, and documentary) does not support it. The most rigorous archival historians of the famine, working from materials unavailable to Conquest, have rejected it. The post-Soviet opening of the archives, which the genocide camp expected would vindicate the engineered-famine thesis, produced the opposite result. What follows is the case against the ethnic genocide reading, point by point, set against the strongest evidence and historians the opposing camp can muster.

@DanielEstrin No host country can be allowed to weaponize its position against the very institution it hosts. May the UN General Assembly stand firmly behind its core values. If the abuses continue, the UNGA should seriously consider meeting elsewhere, including Geneva.

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🇬🇧 A Jewish couple in Hampstead, London, were shocked when their coffee came with a hate message. “My wife ordered a cappuccino, and when it arrived, I saw it and said, ‘Surely that is a swastika?” The café has since fired the barista and apologized. Source: ynet

@z7654321 @BBCWorld Maybe THEY do... but YOU don't. And yet you so confidently proclaim that "They did not bring with them anything that can be defined as humanitarian aid"... when you have literally NO idea !

@garysdunne @BBCWorld The Israeli Navy knows what they brought with them.

Irish leaders condemn Israel's detention of president's sister bbc.in/49R6Lhd

@z7654321 @BBCWorld 3 things; 1 - You have no idea what cargo they are or are not carrying. 2 - They were abducted in international waters, therefore, no matter how the events are twisted, they were NOT "arrested legally". 3 - The "show" is showing how Israel flagrantly ignores international law.

@BBCWorld It was just a show for the international media. They did not bring with them anything that can be defined as humanitarian aid. She was arrested legally for trying to enter Israel illegally. She will be deported from Israel to Ireland in the coming days.