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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 1d

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel
#speirgorm #stopthegenocide
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Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel

There were five Irish citizens aboard boats in the flotilla.

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Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking of Sarah. @simonharrisireland.bsky.social must intervene.

The Clare Champion @clarechampion.ie · 7d

Update: Clare Champion columnist Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained by Israeli forces

Update at 23:35 GMT: Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained In the last few moments the Irish media contact for the Global Sumud Flotilla has confirmed that Sarah Clancy as well as Sinn Féin Senator Chris Andrew,…

Update: Clare Champion columnist Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained by Israeli forces

Update at 23:35 GMT: Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained In the last few moments the Irish media contact for the Global Sumud Flotilla has confirmed that Sarah Clancy as well as Sinn Féin Senator Chris Andrew, Louise Heaney and Tadhg Hickey have all be confirmed as detailed. Sarah Clancy and Senator Andrew were both aboard The Spectre, and both gave interviews to The Clare Champion from the deck of that vessel a few hours ago.

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thickamus prime @0hbetave.bsky.social · 15d

Go update your LinkedIn settings.

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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 22d

That "weaponising our pain" piece is so, so powerful.

Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · 22d

Queen

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23d

"Every country was put on notice by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.. every country became obliged under the law.. not to speak fine words, to take action to prevent genocide.. that obligation was activated on 24th Jan 2024"

Chris Sidoti spells it out

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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · Sep 4

Last chance for those trying to keep us in suspense!

Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland @swip-i.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ok, ok, ok.
Summer is busy, we know it.

So, what about an extension?

➡️ SWIP Ireland Annual Conference new deadline for submitting abstracts is the 15th September 2025!

Find more information at: www.swip-ireland.com/events

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Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland @swip-i.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ok, ok, ok.
Summer is busy, we know it.

So, what about an extension?

➡️ SWIP Ireland Annual Conference new deadline for submitting abstracts is the 15th September 2025!

Find more information at: www.swip-ireland.com/events

Events — SWIP Ireland

www.swip-ireland.com

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · Sep 2

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.

And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

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Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland @swip-i.bsky.social · Aug 28

Only 4️⃣ days left to submit to the 10th SWIP Ireland Conference on Ways of Knowing: Epistemologies & Pedagogies

📅 5–6 Dec 2025
📍Maynooth University

📝 Abstracts (max 300 words) due 1 Sept.
👉 www.swip-ireland.com/events

#CFP #Philosophy

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · Aug 25

Israel is deliberately depriving people of water in #Gaza.

The amount of water available for Palestinians is incredibly insufficient.

This is unacceptable: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-is...

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Nóirín MacNamara @noirinmac.bsky.social · Aug 25

Closing soon - CfA for the @swip-i.bsky.social conference on 'Ways of Knowing: Epistemologies and Pedagogies.' Abstracts from a range of disciplines most welcome & also papers which engage with the work of Professor Sandra Harding - join us in @maynoothuniversity.ie in Dec!

Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland @swip-i.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨One week left to submit your abstract for the 10th SWIP Ireland annual conference!

🖍️ All info at www.swip-ireland.com/events

Events — SWIP Ireland

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Many Western journalists do not regard Palestinian journalists as colleagues and that’s why those reporting from Gaza can be killed by Israel with impunity."

www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

Barry Malone: When Israel decides to silence the 'voice' of Palestinians

Many Western journalists do not regard Palestinian journalists as colleagues and that’s why those reporting from Gaza can be killed by Israel with impunity, writes Barry Malone

www.irishexaminer.com

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · Aug 12

There’s a public survey open for the general public to give input as to whether the Basic Income for the Arts scheme should continue.

I implore you to take the 2 mins to fill out this survey and call for the BIA scheme to be continued and further developed.

ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Basic Income for the Arts public consultation

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jul 25

Israel planned this for decades, bit by bit, kompromat by kompromat, Friend of Israel by Friend of Israel donation. Lie and hasbara by lie and hasbara.

They gambled that it would be too late to save thousands and thousands from their death.

They were right. It is too late.

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Nóirín MacNamara @noirinmac.bsky.social · Jul 23

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'We have no energy left due to hunger': The last remaining journalists in Gaza are facing starvation

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on 8 July that more than 200 journalists had been killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · Jul 23

“Not all Jews are Zionists” - no “war” simply began on October 7th as Irish academics have claimed. Really thoughtful piece that will especially resonate with Irish families who have direct, lived experience of Nazi Germany www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Not all Jews are Zionists — Alan Shatter does not speak for me

The past 21 months have caused increasing tensions between those in my community who stand in solidarity with Palestine and those whose loyalties remain with Israel, no matter how many red lines they ...

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jul 21

DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD AND WATER IN TO GAZA.
This is from Lemkin Institute begging..... we are all begging.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is
calling on every single leader in the world: DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD &
WATER INTO GAZA RIGHT AWAY. Even if it takes bypassing the reports, meetings, endless conferences, parliamentary sessions, UN sessions, and all the other regular diplomatic
channels that have led nowhere. Just do it. Genocide must not be allowed to continue while we all
watch. We must not allow mass starvation in Gaza.
We cannot wait any longer. IF YOU HAVE POWER, USE IT. HISTORY WILL DEMONSTRATE THE RECTITUDE OF
YOUR ACTIONS.

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Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · Jul 22

The decision (to walk away) “in no way reflects a lack of commitment to climate action”

I’m increasingly amazed by the neck of some PR people who will tell outright lies with a straight face.

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Global oil and gas emissions standard put on pause after Shell walks away

Energy group experts quit after draft guidance on global warming plans ‘did not reflect the industry view’

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Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social · Jul 21

There will come a day when everyone will have always been against this.

Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jul 21

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled"

Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

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Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa.bsky.social · Jul 21

85% of Gaza’s population in the 5th stage of malnutrition “IPC Phase 5” - the most catastrophic and famine phase, where a large portion of the population is acutely malnourished, experiencing starvation and death.

Forced starvation is an act of genocide.

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Nóirín MacNamara @noirinmac.bsky.social · Jul 21

'Palestine is a mirror held up to the world’s moral and political failures' - Francesca Albanese www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... #gazaisstarving #gazagenocide

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 19

“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population”

A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.

#Gaza

A statement by Doctors Against Genocide which reads:

To all international humanitarian organizations,
The situation in Gaza is spiraling beyond any medical or moral threshold.
The limited stock of intravenous fluids in our hospitals is no longer sufficient to treat the waves of starving individuals arriving at emergency units — from infants to the elderly, they are collapsing from pure exhaustion and hunger.
This is no longer just a humanitarian crisis.
It is a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population.
We urge you —
Speak. Act. Intervene.
Nasser Medical Complex

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jul 21

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · Jul 20

“ 'I’ve been searching for something to feed my children but there is nothing.'
Daily 🆘 messages are coming in from our starving UNRWA colleagues, every day.

Food is available only a few kilometers away.

Inaction is complicity and makes us lose our humanity."

- UNRWA Commissioner-General

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · Jul 21

We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues.

Food prices have increased 40 fold.

UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza.

Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.

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