Killian
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"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.
It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!
So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.
And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."
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Get the NPWS to buy Conor Pass and turn it into a National Park for the benefit of people and nature. Sign here to support nature restoration: my.uplift.ie/petitions/buy-… via @UpliftIRL
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This is a Sitka spruce plantation for the logging industry. It's monoculture. It destroys biodiversity. These plantations kill soil, insects, animals and acidify groundwater and rivers. This is greenwashing bullshit. We need native broadleaf trees planted in a forest ecosystem
Pippa Hackett@pippa_hackett
Green light for more trees in Ireland! 🌳🌲🌳. The European Commission has approved the afforestation element of the new Forestry Programme today. More details and the approval of the full Programme to follow shortly. pippahackett.ie/post/afforesta…
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♻️ A new recycling bring centre has opened in Killinkere recently. It is located on the grounds of Killinkere CLG in the rear car park. Mixed glass bottles, aluminium and tin cans, clothes and textiles are all accepted at this location.
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Just done some CGI re-modelling to give us an impression of what Ross Kemp might look like at 4500psi
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Ross Kemp had planned to film TV show on Titanic sub bbc.in/3XpsOnZ
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Buying a print of the scene depicting an eviction being assisted by Gardaí will likely do more for homelessness than the current government will.
The artist has pledged to donate 100% profit from prints sold in April to a homeless charity.
Get your copy:
spicebagmerch.bigcartel.com/product/evicti…
Dublin Central Housing Action@D_C_H_A
"I've told you already, it's not my responsibility if you're homeless" says the Garda to one of the 9 tenants illegally evicted last night in Phibsboro. It is, however, their responsibility to oversee the eviction apparently. (No, it's not)
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