Thread by @grannies4equal

@colettebrowne @Hippoclides No, Clare Daly while she may say she criticises Assad has done a great deal to support his regime:

Daly & Wallace organised for known pro Assad propagandist & associate of Assad family Peter Ford to hold meeting in Dublin. He was outed as working for Assad by Vincent Brown.

@colettebrowne @Hippoclides Daly met with key regime figure Fares Shehabi, EU sanctioned for support of Assad regime, war profiteer & gangster, provided propaganda photo op for regime & in Dail expressed admiration for Shehabi & 'challenged' Irish govt to invite him to Ireland to inform them about Syria

@colettebrowne @Hippoclides Here is Assad henchman & propagandist Shehabi threatening a journalist's life, calling for 7 yr old child to be killed, joking about Regime torture of children in Deraa by pulling out their fingernails, calling for an act of genocide. Fine man indeed to praise in Irish parliament

@colettebrowne @Hippoclides Clare Daly came back from Syria & said in Dail the Syrians she chatted to see Russia 'as a friend'. Said this at same time Russia was bombing civilians on Deraa. Doesn't add that no one in regime Syria can speak vs Assad, Syria is a land of torture & silence for 50 years

@colettebrowne @Hippoclides Renowned humanitarian @annie_sparrow 6 yrs in Syria came to Dail to inform JFAC re how over half of UN aid taken by Assad & funds his genocide. Daly didn't bother to meet her but wrote to Irish Times to contradict her & impugn this wonderful woman's integrity.

@colettebrowne @Hippoclides @annie_sparrow How is Daly such an 'expert'on Syria that she can contradict even Dr Sparrow? She has visited Syria on regime approved visas, to regime controlled areas, met with regime figures & folk in the streets (in Arabic or via interpreters?) who know the danger of one wrong word.

@colettebrowne @Hippoclides @annie_sparrow Daly visited Damascus, children were dying a few kilometers away in #EastGhouta from bombs starvation siege by regime she did not speak of that, or of the 'human slaughterhouse' #Sednaya also nearby where thousands - activists,medics,children have been tortured to death.Why not?

@colettebrowne @Hippoclides @annie_sparrow Daly protested in Dail at US token bombing of empty regime airfields after Assad gassed civilians - Not aware of her protesting in Dail vs Assad Russia unrelenting bombs on families, schools, hospitals or deliberate murder of rescuers,inc 13 medical facilities bombed in past week

@colettebrowne @Hippoclides @annie_sparrow Daly amplified smears vs first responders in Syria, supporting the orchestrated regime & Russian propaganda campaign to smokescreen Assad & Russia deliberate killing of @SyriaCivilDef - 250+ have been killed. Their crime? Rescuing civilians & documenting Assad Putin war crimes

@colettebrowne @Hippoclides @annie_sparrow @SyriaCivilDef Daly attended a party at Embassy of Iran to celebrate Islamic revolution. Iran hang 500+ per year, repress women & are Assad's enforcers of starvation siege & ethnic cleansing. Have colonised 'cleansed' areas of Syria with Iranian Shias, loyal to regime.

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@colettebrowne @Hippoclides @annie_sparrow @SyriaCivilDef All of these acts by Daly support Assad regime & promote false Assad narrative of 'Addas vs ISIS'; ignore c80,000 activists currently detained & tortured; support brutal totalitarian state against ordinary working class & rural poor Syrians (+11million forced into homelessness)

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@colettebrowne @Hippoclides @annie_sparrow @SyriaCivilDef Daly & Wallace issued solicitor's letter to leading Irish activist for Syria after he wrote to all members of Oireachtas to contradict their claims abt Syria & to provide information to TDs & senators abt Assad, Russia, Iran,Hezbollah war crimes & crimes against humanity in Syria