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Letter in Irish Examiner today shows just how mendacious some Irish who purport to be ‘reproductive rights’ academics display their #JewHate 𝑻𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒂 🇧🇲🇮🇪🇮🇱🌻 #AdoptIHRA 🎗️

Where is the victim’s voice? Where are her words? “I’m scared,” Nicole Brown told her mother a few months before she was killed. “I go to the gas station, he’s there. I go to the Payless Shoe Store, and he’s there. I’m driving, and he’s behind me.”

Five days before Nicole Brown…

This week, my great-grandma, Lily Ebert, a 100-year-old Auschwitz survivor, became a great-great-grandma.

'I never expected to survive the Holocaust. Now I have five beautiful generations. The Nazis did not win!'

From near-death at Auschwitz to five generations of Jewish life.

A constitutional oversight means the Society of Authors has to hold an EGM to vote on a pro-Palestine motion that it doesn't support and goes against its own remit as a non-political, non-partisan organisation that represents all 12000+ of its diverse members. 1/6

Current stack - brilliant new books Lobster by Hollie McNish & Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson plus other faves I’ve recently finished by Laura Cumming Maggie O’Farrell and Hadley Freeman …🙌🙌🙌

Laura Godfrey-Isaacs (she/her) Hodges Figgis 4th Estate Books Cormac Kinsella HarperCollins_Ire RCW Literary Agency Kishani Widyaratna Matt Clacher Thank you Laura!

It's been said that midwives shouldn't talk about how the maternity crisis affects them. This paper today shows 93% of surveyed midwives score 'moderate to severe' for personal burnout. How can traumatised staff possibly provide an effective service?
europeanjournalofmidwifery.eu/A-survey-exami…

You lost your moral compass when you justified Hamas terrorism. You lost your moral compass when you elected Islamic Republic of Iran to Chair the UN Human Rights Council Social Forum. You lost your moral compass when you made the Saudis Chair of the UN Women's Rights Commission.

🚨 Exceptional article in today’s The Irish Times by Israeli 🇮🇱Ambassador to Ireland 🇮🇪 Dana Erlich 🇮🇱

“Of course, criticising Israel is not anti-Semitic; it is legitimate to criticise any country, any government. To our concern, however, criticism of Israel in Ireland has crossed a…

This week's cover story for the The New Statesman is probably the most difficult thing I've ever had to write, and certainly the most personal.
Birth trauma: the hidden childbirth crisis that is devastating lives and costing the NHS billions. newstatesman.com/politics/healt…

How much longer must NHS staff sacrifice their own mental & physical health because govt won't address the mess we're in?

I don't want to hear another disingenuous word about staff from Victoria Atkins, it's crystal clear how little they're valued.
independent.co.uk/news/health/nh…

'The massacre of 7 October, a modern pogrom, taught Israelis that Netanyahu had failed to keep them safe. It also taught them the rest of the world didn’t care.'

This week's column for the i, six months on from 7 October.

inews.co.uk/opinion/octobe…

Former Arab Member of Knesset (Israel's parliament): 'Arab Muslims are ministers in Israel and you define it as an 'apartheid state.' It's not logical. Israel is not an apartheid state.'

Hagstone is Culture on RTÉ’s Book of the Week. Thank you Charlotte Ryan for this insightful review.

rte.ie/culture/books/…
4th Estate Books HarperCollins_Ire

We have just passed the 6-month mark in this war, and I don't think everyone understands what that means.

For the hostages being held by Hamas, that is half a year without their family, friends, and freedom.

For half of an entire year, Hamas has openly been committing the war…