Palestinian man walks calmly in Hebron with his arms raised. The Israeli soldiers shoots him in the back. This happens all the time for a simple reason: The impunity the US & Europe provide Israel not only enables this, it encourages the steady increase of Israeli war crimes.

Not all Jews are Zionists — Alan Shatter does not speak for me irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…

Excellent letter from Glenn Fitzpatrick in The Irish Times I’ve long thought that pol corrs focus too much on their take on the politics of an issue, and not on the substance or the wider public mood. We are told what we think and how we will react - and it’s often wildly inaccurate

I can't believe the Irish Independent would publish this, and on the same weekend that its main editorial is entitled: "Children of Gaza need more than just empty gestures". They also need Western media to show even a shred of responsibility as to what they publish.

The Netherlands classify Israel as a threat to national security because of its #subversion operations using weaponised narratives to polarise, divide mobilise the public via its extensive information operations ynetnews.com/article/skk2oa…

Jesus Wept at the state of Irish commentary: Irish support for Palestine is “postcolonial vibes”; the US “protects our interests in military terms”; and FFG politicians “didn’t want to believe” IBEC - as opposed to finding IBEC’s argument unconvincing. irishtimes.com/podcasts/insid…

"The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest. In most of these cases the victim was under 12 years old"

Israel’s Diaspora Ministry is running a Russia-style info war on Europe’s democracies building networks of 'useful idiots' to shield its actions in Gaza and West Bank from accountability Time to list Israel's Ministry of #Subversion as a threat andreaskrieg.com/post/israel-s-…

Today, on the day of her funeral in Kyiv, we honour Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity last year. ⁠ At Truth Tellers, Forbidden Stories founder Laurent Richard and The Guardian’s Juliette Garside joined Katya Adler to discuss the extraordinary

What's the social impact of food delivery drones in Irish skies? There are many issues from noise to privacy which need to be considered around fast food drone deliveries in Ireland, writes Marcos Dias Dublin City University rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

My conversation with Sean Moncrieff on Newstalk FM earlier. I argued that it is high time that we placed a full trade embargo on ALL Israeli goods and services. We are either serious about tackling genocide or we’re not. Listen back here. newstalk.com/podcasts/highl…

If you need every person and entity around you to be labelled a terrorist to keep your cognitive dissonance alive, maybe you have become the terrorist

Anas al-Sharif was a popular, brave reporter - the frontline face of Israel's assault on Gaza City. This is why he was targeted. His was no longer a voice that Israeli authorities wanted telling the world about what happens in Gaza day in, day out. thecurrency.news/articles/19863…

Final episode of Academics for Palestine Podcast is up open.spotify.com/episode/3HomLA… Emer Purcell

Today's Russia-US Alaska summit puts the fate of Ukraine 'in Trump and Putin’s hands'. DCU's Prof Donnacha Ó Beacháin Donnacha Ó Beacháin warns the summit could range from an empty handshake to a startling alignment with Kremlin demands. Read in TheJournal.ie: launch.dcu.ie/3HbjIaU

*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:* **“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I

Hot off the press my book ‘BBC Women Reporting the World’ with chapters on Kate Adie Diana Goodman Liz Blunt lyse doucet Orla Guerin Sara Beck Caroline Wyatt Sarah Rainsford @sarahrainsfordbbc.bsky.social & Shaimaa Khalil At all good bookstores Waterstones Foyles Bookshop Dublin City University

Peig Mór returns to Killarney for a Summer’s-End Street Spectacle presented by MOTHÚ at 8.45pm on Saturday beginning at Market Lane & making their way to Main St. Regina Tierney, "Queen of Fires" will also perform a dazzling fire dance that will light up the summer night.