4.5 million Palestinians live under occupation, with no rights, victims of dehumanisation, checkpoints, settler violence, brutalisation, military courts, and no vote. Their occupier, Israel, is what Europe, with a straight face, calls "the only democracy in the Middle East."

Brussels today. Simultaneous mass demos across Europe, rejecting occupation, apartheid, mass murder and genocide, standing with brothers and sisters in Gaza. People in power have abused it. We DEMAND a better world. WE WILL HAVE IT! Free #Palestine. Long live #Gaza. #CeasefireNOW

Brilliant blue November sky as friends & comrades gather at #ShannonAirport. As long as US warplanes touch our ground or violate our skies we're complicit in US crimes including support for Israel & our claim to #neutrality is meaningless. The government must end this policy NOW!

"For decades, EU member states have provided military wares to Israel's occupation forces, with almost 30 percent of their major conventional weaponry originating in Germany (23.9 percent) and Italy (5.9 percent)."

https://euobserver.com/opinion/157676

The EU must listen to Palestinian voices. Why are Israeli victims dignified with names but Palestinians die anonymous in their thousands? EU feigns "concern" but no comprehension of the enormity of what is being wiped out. There must be a #CeasefireNOW.

The international community has failed people in #Gaza. Humanity has failed. But every day brings new opportunities to change course, and stop the killing. The only lesson we can take is to redouble efforts to pressure for a #ceasefireNOW

Israel asks us to believe there is no genocide in Gaza. A state proven to have lied time and again. Outrageous distortion and barefaced lies are how Israel operates. And still media platform the propaganda. Well, it's not going to work. The ugly truth is there for all to see.

World Children's Day 2023. EU leaders sit around congratulating themselves for signing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, while their ally, Israel, "defends itself" by raining white phosphorus on a concentration camp full of children. Well, aren't we great?

Solidarity with Susan Sarandon, a living legend of American film, now dropped by United Talent Agency for speaking up powerfully for Palestinians. As she said: "It is time for an open heart. It is time to be strong. And it's time that Palestine be free." Shame on United Talent.

Eurodiputats escandalitzats per l’estat de dret a ES, no per la brutalitat policial ni espionatge.. sinó l’amnistia! Són conscients del ridícul?

MEPs up in arms on rule of law in Spain, not over police spying or brutality.. but amnesty for Catalans!! Any idea how bad this looks?

On the very same day the Government announced it will abolish the #TripleLock, which is the requirement for a UN mandate for any deployment of Irish troops. In a world that is increasingly seeing conflict among great powers, a UN mandate - the way we have always deployed our peacekeepers - is not good enough for the government anymore. They want to be able to deploy our defence forces on missions that would be vetoed in the UN Security Council. What kind of missions are those?

Despite the usual insincere guff about how the Government is "not changing the policy of military neutrality," is very clear Micheál Martin is on a warpath and intends to do as much damage as he can to Irish neutrality before he is kicked out. All to suck up to the Western leaders at the precise time the mask has come off. Everyone has seen the Western countries throw international law and human rights out the window and "stand with Israel" while the IDF has spent a month and a half pitilessly reducing Gaza into rubble from the air and filling the streets with children's blood. These, Israel's friends and allies, are the countries our government regards as "like-minded partners." Irish people have been heard around the world as a rare European voice speaking up for Palestine, but it is with these so-called "democracies" - who cannot even call for a ceasefire in Gaza - that the Government want us deploying our defence forces with.
Well they are going to have a fight on their hands, because we're not buying it and we're not paying for it. No to war, no to EU militarism, no to Israeli terrorism.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/1122/1417969-triple-lock/

No surprise at all most spyware comes from Israel, the global nerve centre of repressive technology, tested in the "Palestine laboratory."

The Parliament's position on it should be: No sale of it. No use of it. Full stop. The end. It's not abuse that's the problem. It's use.

It is hypocritical to mark International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women without calling for a #CeasefireNOW in #Gaza. Thousands of Gazan women have been murdered by Israel. Hundreds of thousands displaced, tens of thousands of them pregnant. Register and recognise the violence of this situation. #FreeAhedTamimi

The EU's humanitarian aid must improve. We see that in reports of Commission blocking aid to Palestinine at a time of greatest need and in the horrendous plight of people in #Afghanistan, victims of war and international banditry by the US and its lawless allies, and who have now been forgotten.

Thousands of children have been killed, maimed, injured or arrested by Israeli forces.

Two Palestinian boys have been shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.

More than 6,000 children have been killed in Gaza – not counting those still missing or buried under the rubble.

Why have so many Palestinian children been killed by Israel? https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2023/11/30/why-have-so-many-palestinian-children-been-killed-by-israel

Many will be watching the news about #COP28 and wondering what's the actual point of it. Year on year we fail to act. COP isn't working. And the main reason is the Global North has failed in its responsibility towards those areas of the world most affected by climate change.