Helen Healy

@RachelMoiselle Rachel who is organising this demo. Are they Iranian royalists. I’d love to know more about the opposition movements in Iran. I’m sure there are many. Supporting the Shah’s successors is a problemetic. Btw have you ever protested against Israeli repression of Palestinians.

Dublin based followers: Please consider attending this protest outside the Dáil this Thursday at 2PM. The Iranian people are in need and deserving of support. If you purport to care about human rights, Iranians suffering under the brutal Islamic Regime should be a priority .

@mishtal @Telegraph You might be interested to know that two Irish media outlets reported it - RTE & The Journal and El Pais in Spain

Almost every UK media outlet spread numerous lies about the treatment of the flotilla activists in Israel. Yet only @Telegraph published the news about the Gaza flotilla activists beaten by Spanish police. Just one. Silence from the rest. This is two-tier reporting.

@Molly85224872 @dxragh Given that Israel is constantly stressing how democratic and more liberal it is compared to its neighbours I’m surprised it hasn’t changed the millet system and introduced civil marriages. Very odd

@hheals @dxragh They don’t want to? Same as their neighbours.

I guess my husband and I should hand ourselves in to the police in Tel Aviv, since our gay marriage is 'illegal'. But wait, our government IDs — and all our official documents — state that we're married. Could it be that gay marriage is not illegal here? And that actually, no civil weddings — wither same-sex or heterosexual — are possible under the British Mandate era laws? But... marriages performed abroad, gay and straight, are recognised. Not ideal, but describing gay marriage as 'illegal' when Tel Aviv in particular is full of married gay men and women and their kids, is either uninformed, or disingenuous.

nearly always so much more sympathy for rapists, especially teenaged, than for the victims of rapists; why so much more concerned with boys than with girls? utterly baffling, outrageous. in the US it has too often been "boys will be boys"--"girls, fend for yourselves."

Readers offered questions and pushback about my investigation into sexual assaults against Palestinians by Israelis. So here are our answers: nytimes.com/2026/05/21/opi…

Appalled at the shocking behaviour of Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir towards illegally detained members of the Sumud Flotilla. The Israeli government’s actions are in breach of international law and I intend to raise this issue at EU level.

2004 🏆 vs 2026 🏆 22 years later, but we did it Nan ❤️

Arsenal wins the Premier League

@WasAcop Why the criticism of Sky News - their calculations are presumably based on images they’ve seen so far. One assumes they will update their figures later on if appropriate

@hheals Will do one when it’s all over, need other factors like underground capacity road issues

Here we go… the good old “tell em there’s only 50k.” Sky, no one believes your crap anymore. We have eyes, you know…

@joshxhowie @thekatebutch What if you’re ignoring it because of its dubious public voting system with multiple votes allowed. And Israeli’s soft power marketing campaign to promote voting. Will be interesting to see what happens if Israel wins

@thekatebutch If you’re boycotting Eurovision this year because it’s got Jews in it you’re a bit of Nazi I’m sorry

@salingergregor Israel hasn’t qualified for World Cup final plus the Eurovision is a rather inconsequential song contest of little importance

Why aren't Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Slovenia and Iceland boycotting the Olympics and the World Cup?

@WeAreYellows49 @Nigel_Farage Has he trespassed - no evidence of this from Mr Farage. As a picture editor who knows about doorstepping and photography I doubt he has

@hheals @Nigel_Farage Do you believe in trespass?

My security team just found this journalist from The Guardian at my property. This is exactly why I need security. Completely unacceptable.

@DAaronovitch Of course we have no idea but it’s interesting to speculate

None of you have the faintest idea whether Burnham can win in Makerfield yet, so stop pretending that you do.

@owenjonesjourno Labour will need the support of Greens and LibDems

This seems risky! The rationale seems to be that the Greens will struggle here. But Reform will throw everything at it.

@OdohertyI64991 It is strange that only religious weddings are allowed in Israel even if civil marriages conducted elsewhere are recognised in Israel.

Another lie. Same sex marriages don't happen in Israel because weddings are conducted by religious authorities. But gay couples legally married in another country have the same rights under Israeli civil law as a heterosexual couple (inheritance, benefits etc.)

@moorehn @NickKristof I have read the article. Have you? To quote ‘The United Nations and other organizations have presented credible evidence that Hamas militants committed sexual assault during their rampage’ etc

You would do well to read that article, which reports that there is zero credible evidence of any kind. Additionally, the Israeli government did not do any forensics at all -- as reported in that article -- and the allegations that people falsely cite come from Zaka, which withdrew them. There are also zero Israeli women alleging rape. Rape is too important a subject to run on vibes.

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…

@moorehn @NickKristof Heidi although the ZAKA claims were proved to be untrue the UN and other organisations have credible evidence of sexual assault by Hamas during 7 Oct attack - pbs.org/newshour/amp/w…

@NickKristof Just as a note, the Oct 7 rape claims you treat as credible have no evidence and the people who made them withdrew them. Please append a correction. pbs.org/newshour/world…