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Stephen McCloskey
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Director of the Centre for Global Education in Belfast. Editor of the journal, Policy and Practice: A Development Education. Author: Global Learning and International Development in the Age of Neoliberalism. Posts are my own.
The Centre for Global Education invites participation in a webinar on 26 November at 12pm that will present and discuss the findings of a new report that maps far-right discourse on social media as a platform for racism. For more information and registration visit

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November 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
For the 33rd consecutive year, the United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted in favour of a motion calling for an end to the 64 year old US blockade of Cuba. The vote was carried by 165 in favour with 7 opposing.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Ireland has elected a compassionate, humanist, socialist and pro-Palestinian president who reflects the will of the Irish people for a new republic built on social justice.
October 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
March for Palestine in Belfast tomorrow at 12pm.
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
A new report on an education programme for Palestinian and Syrian refugee children living in 3 refugee camps in Lebanon.

www.centreforglobaleducation.com/sites/defaul...
October 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Research being launched tomorrow commissioned
Centre for Global Education and compiled by Queen's University Belfast that discerns the main drivers of poverty in Northern Ireland with international comparisons. centreforglobaleducation.com/events

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October 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
October 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
All out for tomorrow's national demonstration for Palestine in Dublin. As we approach the 2nd anniversary of the #genocide, our activism is needed more than ever to stop Israel's ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Assemble 12.30pm, Garden of Remembrance.
October 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
On 23 September 2024, Israel launched an intensive aerial bombardment on Lebanon, heavily targeting Dahiyeh in southern Beirut where entire apartment blocks were destroyed. Despite a ceasefire on 27 November, Israeli strikes on Lebanon are happening on a near daily basis.
September 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This weekend is the 43rd anniversary of the Sabra / Shatila Massacre when 2,000-3,500 Palestinian refugees and Lebanese civilians were murdered by the Phalange, a right-wing militia operating in co-ordination with the Israeli army. This cemetery in Shatila remembers the dead.
September 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I have recorded an episode of “The Curious and Critical Global Citizenship Education” Podcast with Dr Brighid Golden from
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. I talk about the work of the Centre for Global Education and the need for activism in these dangerous times
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September 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A Palestinian march through the centre of Belfast today called for an end to EU and US complicity in genocide, an immediate lifting of the siege of Gaza, and hands off the Global Sumud Flotilla bringing much needed aid to Gaza.
September 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
March for Palestine tomorrow in Belfast. Assemble at 12pm in Writer's Square.
September 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Welcome to the Centre for Global Education's Annual Report 2024 with an overview of our publications, research and activities over the past year including two programmes for Palestinian refugee children in Lebanon. Check it out.

www.centreforglobaleducation.com/sites/defaul...
August 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
August 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Palestine vigil at the BBC in Belfast tomorrow at 6.00pm.
August 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
My letter to today's @irishtimes.com calling for immediate Irish government action, not protests, to stop the #genocide in Gaza. No US military use of Shannon airport, no Central Bank sale of Israeli war bonds, no trade with Israel. #stopthegenocide.
July 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
July 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
21 months into Israel's genocide in Gaza and the Irish people continue to march in their thousands demanding a #CeasefireNow and justice for Palestinians. No trade with apartheid Israel
July 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The Hague Group of 8 states from the global South has agreed 6 “diplomatic, legal and economic measures to restrain Israel’s assault on Palestine”. The only meaningful form of state action in response to the genocide has come from the global South.

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July 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
There is a national demonstration for Palestine this Saturday, 19 July in Dublin. Assemble at 1.00pm in the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square. Stop the genocide and stop the sale of Israeli war bonds by the Irish Central Bank.
July 16, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on
Francesca Albanese following her launch of a forensic report detailing corporate complicity in the genocide in Gaza. They want to silence a principled, courageous advocate for international law. We should stand in solidarity with her
July 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Channel 4 is broadcasting "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" on Wednesday 2nd July at 10pm, a documentary that the BBC refused to air. It examines allegations that Israeli forces have repeatedly targeted hospitals and healthcare workers in Gaza in breach of international law.
June 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Solidarity to @kneecapceol.bsky.social and congratulations on their 5-star performance at Glastonbury which the spineless BBC won't let us see. #FreePalestine
June 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A new report just launched by Defense for Children International finds that "Israeli authorities have deliberately weaponized starvation as a method of genocide, resulting in the preventable deaths and suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza".

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June 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM