I also did this but it was only to one kid who was irritating me (they cried)

This is getting the ridicule it deserves. But it's a long academic tradition. Roy Foster seriously offered, as an explanation for the Land War, the increase of sexually frustrated young men in post-famine Ireland. Respectable history 101
h/t Pádraig Mac Oscair 🇵🇸

Folks, you gotta watch something other than RT and Sputnik. Important part of a healthy media diet. Hell, watching Press TV would keep you from reaching this angle!

The EPP, of whom Fine Gael are a member, sent delegates to this conference, who sat, listened to and presumably politely applauded this speech, which is no different from the things being shouted by the mob in Newtownmountkennedy.

I do not care about the fate of Gaddafi and in the Arab World we all celebrated and sent each other memes when he died

This practical impact of a couple signs like this at a protest is negligible imo, but I really wish more ppl would develop an analysis that doesn’t end up here.

The parties saying they're against open borders should explain what they would like to change about our extremely restrictive and onerous visa regime. My wife's family are Turkish so I've assisted with applications dozens of times...

Four of the five arrests in Newtownmountkennedy were local, putting paid to the idea that the racists were all dubs. We have to accept that we have racists in our communities otherwise we give racism cover, and the problem in our communities, festers.

We are hosting a FREE screening of Israelism this Sunday at the Duncairn Arts Centre in Belfast this Sunday.

It's a fantastic documentary on an important aspect of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and you shouldn't miss this opportunity to see it!

Let's dispense with the notion that this coordinated wave of state violence against the pro-Palestine movement is on behalf of a foreign government. It is on behalf of the structure of US empire, of which Israel forms a crucial node. But the call is coming from inside the house.

Notable that the concept of “anti-Palestinian racism” has never entered the American political lexicon. Amid all the concern about Israeli brutality inciting antisemitism, no one stops to wonder about the ideology that makes Palestinian suffering so acceptable.

Today's leading Christian Zionists come from the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), the fastest-growing far-right Christian movement in the US & worldwide. For them, actively working to convert Jews in Israel & worldwide is part of bringing the End Times thedailybeast.com/meet-bibis-new…

On last night's livestream, Christian nationalist organizers of today's 'United for Israel' march at Columbia explained that they're actually excited about rising antisemitism: it's a sign the End Times is near & Jews will convert to Christianity. Rally leader Sean Feucht: