Jews for Palestine Ireland fully support the campaign to rename Herzog park so that it no longer honours a man who gladly took part in a large scale ethnic cleansing.

Note that as with our other statements none of the arguments presented here are contingent on our Jewishness; any of you can use them and they'd be just as valid coming from yourselves

It's typically difficult to win a PR war when you're committing genocide.

EU militarisation, including the re-introduction of conscription in seven member states in the past 3 years, is a 'coup from above' - against the interests, will and needs of European people. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

nothing but respect for slovenia, spain, netherlands, ireland, and any other broadcaster that’ll join them in withdrawing and doing the right thing after today’s shameful decision.

The Irish commentariat has gone into overdrive, not just misinforming but outright lying about threats to our security. What makes it worse is that this small handful of people with paid column inches, media appearances & think tanks dismiss the majority as 'lecturing' others.

This is lunacy, utter lunacy.

Oh my god. They’ve completely lost the plot. The last time I remember hysteria on this scale was during the austerity crusade after the financial crash.

The real threats to social cohesion are poverty, inequality, social exclusion and inadequate provision of public services, not asylum seekers. To suggest that it’s the latter is to deflect attention from chronic governmental failure. It’s also deeply cynical and self-serving.

"There is no rhyme or reason to our imprisonment. But when you decide to take action despite being in prison, you’re free" - Hunger striker Amu Gib's article in the Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I am gravely concerned by the Government’s ongoing position on the hunger strike. Since I raised the 8 prisoners’ plight in Parliament yesterday, the Government said they ‘do not treat prisoners any differently from any other’. If that is the case, why are they being held on

Two remarkable women. Real power is made of empathy and generosity, not Alpha culture.

Congrats to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has been cleared, returned to work, and had her ARC grant reinstated. How many more times does this need to happen: Dr Abdel-Fattah, Khaled Sabsabi, Antoinette Lattouf, myself, and countless others, all lied about by a hateful Murdoch press.

I wrote on how German and western political classes killed the belief in Holocaust memory. I deplore the abuse of this memory and its consequent erosion.

Wish Helen McEntee TD could make a similar statement about Venezuela.

Rokhaya is a fantastic writer & person, and constantly subject to the multiple shades of reactionary bullshit that French politics specialises in. Then there’s this racist rag, unable to actually engage with her considered engagement with laïcité so time for ‘freedom of speech’

In today's Guardian, Larry Elliott says it's hard to understand why Keir Starmer's government is so unpopular. Well, here's me in The New Statesman explaining why.

Charlie Hebdo as unrepentantly racist as ever. Solidarity with Rokhaya Diallo.

Au lieu de présenter des excuses, Charlie Hebdo noie le poisson et m’incrimine en prétendant que j’ai «toujours condamné » la loi de 1905. Mensonge évidemment. Voici quelques extrait du livre « comment parler de la laïcité aux enfants que j’ai publié en 2015 avec Jean Baubérot.

the NYT ponders the mystery of why Gazans keep getting killed even though there's a ceasefire