Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 1d

The second flotilla is now in the ‘red zone’ where Israel has previously abducted flotillas and trafficked them onwards to false imprisonment. We’ll do all we can to reach Gaza, but if they stop us it will likely be within 24 hours. Track us here: thousandmadleens.fr/tracker

Flotilla Tracker – Thousand Madleens & Freedom Flotilla Coalition – Thousand Madleens France

thousandmadleens.fr

1 10 17

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 1d

The second flotilla is very close to Gaza now, undeterred by anything we’ve heard about what the first went through. 11,000 Palestinians are still trapped in such prisons, including over 400 children, so turning back is not an option. Track us here: thousandmadleens.fr/tracker/

1 11 16

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 2d

The first flotilla’s Irish participants have just been released from Israeli prison; they’re on their way home now. Meanwhile, we on the second flotilla are nearing Gaza. Keep speaking up for Palestine. We’re sailing not only for aid but for self-determination & we won’t stop until Palestine is free

3 120 290

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 3d

The second flotilla continues to sail. No matter what we hear about prison conditions for the first wave of participants, our solidarity with Palestine is unconditional. We’re on track to reach Gaza in just a few days www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Naoise Dolan: As we get closer to Gaza, Israel’s abduction of our fellow flotilla members will only spur us on

Friday, October 4, 12.25am local time. I should sleep before my night watch shift begins in two hours, but my boat’s violent tilting makes it impossible. There is a loud, interminable drilling noise; ...

www.independent.ie

1 33 64

Reposted by Naoise Dolan

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3d

“This time next week, I might not be able to advocate for myself. So I’ll say this now: speak up not only for the flotilla, but against Israel’s illegal occupation and genocide.”

- @naoisedolan.bsky.social

www.independent.ie/opinion/comm... #Sumud #Spéirghorm

Naoise Dolan: As we get closer to Gaza, Israel’s abduction of our fellow flotilla members will only spur us on

Friday, October 4, 12.25am local time. I should sleep before my night watch shift begins in two hours, but my boat’s violent tilting makes it impossible. There is a loud, interminable drilling noise; ...

www.independent.ie

1 16 35

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 5d

🇵🇸

1 10 38

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 6d

The Mikeno boat at the front of Sumud flotilla has now reached Gaza’s territorial waters. It’s so close. I’m praying to every deity and secular source of hope that a single one of our boats gets through

2 59 190

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 6d

Yahia Barzaq is the latest Palestinian journalist Israel has murdered in Gaza. Whatever propaganda moments they try to capture of the flotilla with cameras on — a jacket, a sandwich — remember that they kill reporters specifically to control the narrative

2 3 14

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 7d

Sumud boats currently being intercepted by Israel, likely to illegally abduct and imprison those inside. I’m on one of the Thousand Madleens boats just behind. We need escalation from home to end the impunity with which this rogue state commits genocide and stifles opposition

23 35

Reposted by Naoise Dolan

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

I’m on a boat bound for Gaza – sailing, scrubbing and warding off sea sickness – all so we can break Israel’s blockade | Naoise Dolan

It’s not likely we will reach Gaza. But until Palestine is free, we will show what solidarity we can from our vessel, says writer Naoise Dolan

www.theguardian.com

7 48 130

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 8d

Wrote for the Guardian about boat life, and why we need not only to deliver short-term aid but to politically challenge Israel’s illegal occupation and siege www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While world leaders dither over a Gaza peace plan, I’m sailing with supplies, hoping to break Israel’s blockade | Naoise Dolan

It’s not likely we will reach Gaza. But until Palestine is free, we will show what solidarity we can from our vessel, says writer Naoise Dolan

www.theguardian.com

3 4

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 9d

Our Thousand Madleens boats continue just behind Sumud. The next few days will be a test of whether the world will finally end the same impunity that has let Israel butcher Palestinians for decades

6 18

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 11d

After a month of setbacks and delays, I finally set sail for Gaza today with Thousand Madleens to break Israel’s illegal blockade, protest Western governments’ participation in the genocide and stand with Palestinians. I’m on the Milad, track us here: thousandmadleens.fr/tracker/

Flotilla Tracker – Thousand Madleens & Freedom Flotilla Coalition – Thousand Madleens France

thousandmadleens.fr

1 1 17

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 14d

I say this as a flotilla participant: we cannot let drone attacks distract from the genocide. Israel has murdered at least 84 people in Gaza so far today, with the real number likely far higher. Governments need to sanction this rogue state, not just protect their own citizens

1 22 40

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 21d

My boat in Tunisia got cancelled but I’m still sailing to Gaza from Italy next week. Viva Palestina 🇵🇸

13

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 29d

They droned a second boat. We’re still going to Gaza. Pressure the Irish government any way you can to support the flotilla and sanction the country attacking us

1 91 240

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 29d

Our lead ship on the Global Sumud Flotilla was droned and caught fire. The six who were onboard are safe, and our mission will continue. They know international opinion is turning inexorably against them. Bombing peaceful humanitarians won’t exactly help that, but it’s the only response they’ve got.

4 71 170

Reposted by Naoise Dolan

Inprecor @inprecor.bsky.social · Sep 7

Naoise Dolan, écrivaine irlandaise, explique pourquoi elle se rend sur la flottille, pour faire face à l'inaction de nos gouvernements. Interview par @paulmurphy.pbp.ie

3 7

Reposted by Naoise Dolan

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Sep 4

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan is among hundreds of activists to have joined an aid flotilla sailing to Gaza this week 👇 #BookSky

Author Naoise Dolan joins aid flotilla sailing to Gaza

ebx.sh

1 21

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Back in now but I’ll leave this up – I left my normal phone+SIM in Ireland so could easily lose access to any of my socials and even email, if all else fails go through Global Movement to Gaza Éire on their IG + TikTok pages

1 5

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’ve lost access to my Instagram as I wait to board the Sumud Flotilla when the Spain boats arrive – trying to get it back now, but please try here if you can’t reach me there!

1 2 9

Reposted by Naoise Dolan

Rivista Studio @mm-rivista-studio.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sulla Global Sumud Flotilla c’è anche la scrittrice Naoise Dolan
«Centinaia di persone provenienti da 44 Paesi salperanno verso Gaza questa settimana a bordo della Global Sumud Floti...
https://www.rivistastudio.com/global-sumud-flotilla-naoise-dolan/

1 2

Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · Sep 2

A few hours after this went up, Israel announced that it had moved bond approval from Ireland to Luxembourg. We’ll take the win. But overall governmental complicity remains, and that’s why I and other EU citizens have been forced to sail for Gaza ourselves www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ireland calls out the genocide in Gaza while profiting from Israeli war bonds. That’s why I’m joining the flotilla | Naoise Dolan

My government pays lip service to Palestine but remains complicit. Like many Irish citizens, I refuse to, says author Naoise Dolan

www.theguardian.com

1 3 16

Reposted by Naoise Dolan

The Journal @thejournal.ie · Sep 1

Author Naoise Dolan explains why she's joining a flotilla mission to Gaza - and why it's long past time for Western leaders to take action.

http://jrnl.ie/6803678

Naoise Dolan: I've protested Israel's actions every way I can. Now, I'm joining the flotilla sailing for Gaza

Author Naoise Dolan explains why she’s joining a flotilla mission to Gaza – and why it’s long past time for Western leaders to take action.

jrnl.ie

2 7 20

Reposted by Naoise Dolan

⎏•byjing•⎐ @obyjingo.bsky.social · Sep 1

🇵🇸| The sky above me today is a canopy of bleary grey, the air I'm breathing seems wan... It's hard to conceive that we can/do/shall continue to endeavour within this flimsy structure — in a vain effort of conjecture — that life has meaning at all. At least @naoisedolan.bsky.social 🗣️ like a real one⤵️

I have found Ireland a less hostile environment to protest in. But the necessity to protest at all comes from my government’s failure to respond on a policy level. There is the illusion of a debate among European countries: we’ve got Germany backing Israel, and countries such as Ireland and Spain (along with Norway) backing Palestine, so let’s see how they resolve it in the grand old marketplace of ideas. This fiction flatters all involved. The countries relatively critical of Israel evade scrutiny for still not having domestically sanctioned it; they’re pushing for this to happen at an EU level, after all. And Germany benefits from a conversation held on the premise that all EU countries maintain economic and diplomatic ties with Israel. Its critics’ authority in condemning the genocide is diluted by their failure to treat it in practice as one — Naoise Dolan (Excerpt from article)

3 7