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Mark Klamberg @klamberg.bsky.social · 25d

The UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel: Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Absent a court judgment, findings of UN COIs are the most conclusive, thus we should read these findings thoroughly.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27d

"Sinn Féin and the DUP have stalled the nutrients action programme over fears of a farmer backlash."

The *only* thing they'll unite on: ensuring the largest lake ecosystem in Ireland or Britain, Lough Neagh, continues to die of pollution.

What a f**king disgrace.
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‘It’s dying in front of our eyes’: how the UK’s largest lake became an ecological disaster

Signs tout a natural paradise, but pollution from over-farming has left Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh choked by toxic algae

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Marisa McVey @marisamcv.bsky.social · 29d

It's ok to be a Luddite!

n+1 @nplusonemag.com · Sep 11

Does the AI skeptic have nothing else to fall back on than an enumeration of mankind’s shortcomings? Are our worst qualities the best we can do? www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · Sep 10

ITV have this headline 100% correct. It was an attempted lynching in broad daylight at a preannounced white supremacist mobilisation.

Despite being MLA for the area, the Justice Minister doesn’t engage with victims of white supremacist terror in her own constituency.

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Patrick Corrigan @patrick-corrigan.bsky.social · Sep 1

For context: Policy Exchange is among the least transparent think tanks in the UK regarding its funding sources.

Co-founder and first chairman Michael Gove wrote a pamphlet in 2000 comparing the Good Friday Agreement to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s.

Headline from Belfast Telegraph: Claims NI peace deal stops UK leaving ECHR ‘entirely groundless’ – think tank

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · Aug 21

People from Northern Ireland listening to English flag discourse

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Aug 18

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

Headline: BBC under pressure to pull Sally Rooney dramas over vow to fund Palestine Action

Headline: Tory minister Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at far right protest.

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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · Aug 16

The whole article is worth reading!

Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · Aug 16

Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 11

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · Aug 6

“The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland.”

A deadly serious allegation that requires urgent investigation.

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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Marisa McVey @marisamcv.bsky.social · Aug 4

Yet another blog on the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on climate change - with a slight twist!

Below, myself and Annalisa Savaresi share reflections specifically on the implications for human rights-based corporate responsibility 👇

Opinio Juris @opiniojuris.bsky.social · Aug 4

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: A Business and Human Rights Perspective

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The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: A Business and Human Rights Perspective

[Marisa McVey is a lecturer in law at Queen’s University Belfast. Annalisa Savaresi is professor of international environmental law at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental …

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · Jul 25

A sit down protest by Palestinian solidarity groups has been blocking the road in front of City Hall for 2 hours now

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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · Jul 25

“Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed.” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

Gaza extermination: Hasan should have turned three. Instead, he starved to death

Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jul 22

"What we're seeing now is the most horrific stage of Israels starvation campaign... Israel has been using aid as a way to bait civilians & has been killing civilians who have been seeking aid..."

Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Jul 20

"Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday."

"She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone."

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jun 25

‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’

New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Daniella Lock | Heavy Power

During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to...

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ECCHR - European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights @ecchr.bsky.social · Jun 23

Human Rights and Legal Organizations Warn Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and Partners of Legal Liability for Complicity with Serious International Law Violations: ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... @ccrjustice.org

Human Rights and Legal Organizations Warn Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and Partners of Legal Liability for Complicity with Serious International Law Violations

June 23, 2025, New York/Geneva - Today, a group of 15 leading human rights and legal organizations released an open letter urging an end to the current privatized, militarized aid delivery model opera

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Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission @nihrc.bsky.social · Jun 18

Drs Ciara Hackett and @marisamcv.bsky.social introduced the second day of our Business and Human Rights workshops, taking us through the context in Northern Ireland and sharing the Northern Ireland Business and Human Rights Index.

Drs Ciara Hackett and Marisa McVey presenting.

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · Jun 11

Northern Ireland has changed massively over the past 60 years in a lot of ways but certainly not in others

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Mike Tomlinson @miketqub.bsky.social · Jun 6

Queen's University Belfast no longer investing in Israeli companies "as of yesterday"

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · May 27

"The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and also consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations”, more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including former supreme court justices, have said."

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · May 22

More than 350 lawyers and academics say Government not complying with international law obligations over Palestine crisis

Ireland obliged to take steps to prevent EU rendering assistance to Israel’s ‘unlawful acts’

www.irishtimes.com

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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · May 21

As Gaza faces mass starvation, I wrote about Israel’s new militarised aid plan (to be run by a ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ headed by a former US sniper) and the call for a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to break the siege.
www.abc.net.au/religion/as-...

As Gaza faces starvation, a new plan weaponises humanitarian aid — what can be done? - ABC Religion & Ethics

After blocking all food from entering Gaza for 11 weeks, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to allow a limited amount into the besieged territory — though he insists that a new militarised deliv...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · May 20

UN's Tom Fletcher: "The situation is dire.. we have thousands of trucks ready to go.. we are demanding that the world back us in pushing Israel to let us in.. [5 trucks is] a drop in the ocean.. there are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them"

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