Ellen Hegarty 💙💛

The Covid Alarm Clock looked at what the Covid Crisis can teach us about tackling the #climatecrisis Find series 1 by searching Covid Alarm Clock wherever you get your podcasts The handle is now changed to The Climate Alarm Clock @theclimatealarm is launching 6 Oct Check it out!!

Rest in Peace Fadi

Healthcare workers are #NotATarget.

Even if I made it and stayed a live, will I be mentally able to enjoy a moment in my whole life?

Saoirse don Phalaistín!

For English speakers, here is the first message on social media,from @WaelDahdouh after Israel killed his son Hamza.

I hope western journalists look into his eyes and watch this well. It has even been translated for you.

The name of every person slaughtered in Gaza by Israeli bombings. We paid for this. It's jaw-dropping seeing it like this.

Just another night in Gaza, where all you see is Israeli light flames and all you heard is sounds of drones, gunfire, explosions and ambulances. Stop the genocide

Bidding farewell to his third child in around two months.. Aljazeera correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh lost his eldest son Hamza in an Israeli airstrike today. In October, he lost his wife and 2 other children in the ongoing Israeli attacks.

Beyond awful. How terribly, terribly sad.

Unbelievable devastating news. The eldest son of Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh was killed today by an Israeli strike that targeted the car he was in. Hamza Dahdouh was also a journalist. Too much loss already for one family. That’s the story of Gaza.

My heart is deeply broken for losing more two of my colleagues and friends in an Israeli air strike. One of them is the bigger son of @WaelDahdouh Hamza That’s enough

Wael Al-Dahdouh just lost another son by a targeted Israeli airstrike. Another assassination of a journalist. How much suffering can a human being, a people endure? Every country with a shred humanity must stand with South Africa & help prosecute these mass murderers NOW.

Bere island has been without power for over 24hrs. Pair trawling by large 18m plus boats in our harbours has to stop. We know about of the devastation it causes wildlife but now allegedly it has resulted in a cable connecting Bere island to the mainland being damaged.

The full interview can be found here, very much worth a watch in its entirety! youtu.be/SHwyquMunWM?si…

This is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary interviews of a former senior US government official on Gaza. This is Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Key points in the video: - He agrees that many of the victims of Oct 7th were killed by the Israeli army in the form of "undisciplined fire by helicopters with hellfire missiles or by tanks with incendiary rounds directed at buildings". In the case of the victims of the music festival he even says they "were largely killed, it appears, by hellfire missiles and by other undisciplined fire by Israeli forces". To him this "disgrace in military terms" stems from a "lack of discipline and training necessary to respond" but also from the IDF's "Hannibal directive", which "says that rather than get into bargaining over hostage exchange you should just kill the Israeli hostages along with their captors." - He says that with Oct 7th "Hamas had 2 objectives": 1) "Put the Palestinian self-determination issue back on the global agenda", something he says they've "succeeded" in doing since they're is "widespread recognition outside Israel that only self-determination for Palestine in the form of a 2-state solution can provide security to Israel". He says that even in "the US, which has a larger Jewish population than Israel, many Jews have come to realize that this is the case. Younger Jews in particular in the U.S. are very disillusioned with Zionism and don't want to suffer contagion from it in the form of antisemitism, which is actually growing now as a result of Israeli actions". 2) "Give Hamas enormous popularity among Palestinians because they are seen as having stood up, as having been willing to accept death rather than captivity". He refers to Norman Finkelstein's "analogy of slave revolts in the U.S." and particularly the "1831 revolt by Nat Turner, a well-educated very intelligent enslaved African who led a slave revolt in Southern Virginia which had as its objective the murder of every white person they encountered." He says it "raises a moral question: 'Is the violence of the slave-owner morally the same as the violence of the slave trying to end that violence?'. The same moral question arises with Israeli oppression of Palestinians versus Palestinian resistance to oppression." - All in all he concludes that much like the violence against African-Americans that followed slave revolts in the 19th century, the Israeli vengeance against Palestinians "won't be remembered fondly by anyone in the future". In fact he goes as far as saying that "when people think of Israel in the past they thought of it as a refuge for the victims of the Holocaust... now they will think of it as the home of perpetrators of genocide. When they think of Israel, they will think of burned buildings and dead babies. This is an image problem of a fundamental nature and from the point of view of Israel it strips Israel of its protection by charges of antisemitism against anyone who is critical of Israel because to be critical of people who are carrying out genocide cannot be antisemitism, it cannot be considered immoral. Antisemitism is a despicable attitude but to oppose genocide by Israel is not."

How is anyone okay with this?

My favourite part of Dun Laoghaire is this formerly drab and unloved lane, now a rainbow road with play equipment alongside it so we can walk to the shop while having fun. I’ve seen kids (& adults!) of all ages on it!

Here we go again? The incoming president of Cop29 has spent 5 years in government - and the previous 24 in SOCAR, the state oil and gas company