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May 15, 2023 5 tweets 6 min read Read on X
Today is #NakbaDay. 75 years ago a catastrophe was visited on the Palestinian people - the violent beginnings of Israel's occupation. It continues today.

@vonderleyen recently described these events as a "dream." That is unacceptable, and must be condemned. #VonDerLies #Nakba
A "tragedy" is a terrible event nobody is really responsible for. It is totally unacceptable for a German politician to use the @EU_Commission to minimise the historic crimes of the Nazi regime as a mere "tragedy," and in the same breath as she downplays the #Nakba. #vonderLies
It's beyond disgraceful for an @EU_Commission President to allow the propaganda lie "Israel made the desert bloom" to come out of her mouth, denying the prior existence of Palestinians in their homeland. We must oppose apologism for the occupation in #EU institutions. #vonderLies
The calculated insensitivity to Palestinian experience in @vonderleyen's statement implies that the EU does not care about Palestinians.

She does not represent us. Many many people in the EU stand in solidarity with Palestinians & condemn Israel's #apartheid regime. #vonderLies
There 👏 is👏no👏democracy👏in👏an👏#apartheid👏regime.

For @vonderleyen to call Israel a "vibrant democracy" now - in the face of so much evidence - only draws attention to what we already know.

Israel is not a democracy. Freedom to #Palestine. End apartheid. #vonderLies

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Oct 19, 2023
The resolution passed today is an appalling and dangerous statement by the Parliament. The text criticises Israel mildly or not at all, obscures context, fails to even call for a ceasefire, and amounts to a green light for Israel to keep going.

Working in the Left group, we tabled numerous amendments to address these problems.

A thread🧵on some of the amendments we tabled or signed with colleagues to today's motion and how MEPs voted on them.
MEPs are listed under their political group.

PPE: Fine Gael
RENEW: Fianna Fáil
Verts/ALE: The Greens

Myself, @wallacemick, @lukeming, and Sinn Fein are all members of The Left group.

+ means voted IN FAVOUR.
- means voted AGAINST.
0 means ABSTAINED.
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Sep 29, 2023
Press statements on the Close GTMO! event held yesterday in the European Parliament. We call on European countries to offer to accept prisoners already cleared for release, but who cannot leave without a safe destination to go to. Help the US #CloseGuantanamo Bay for good.
Statement by Mansoor Adayfi, former prisoner in Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
Statement by Beth Jacobs, US human rights attorney, legal counsel for current and former prisoners in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
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Dec 7, 2021
Two news outlets. Same story. Brussels-based @euobs on the left. Irish public broadcaster @rtenews on the right.

Historic levels of defence spending. RTE zooms in on a detail to report a "slump".

Irish audiences are being woefully misinformed about the militarisation of Europe.
@euobs @rtenews Here is the @euobs story - have a read yourself. euobserver.com/world/153736
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Feb 18, 2021
Citizens protest against Spanish state's imprisonment of a #Catalan rapper @PabloHasel for "crimes of expression" (speech!) that wouldn't bat an eyelid in Ireland. But for the #EU, if it's not happening in #Russia it's not happening. #LlibertatPabloHasel

pscp.tv/w/1MnxnlLAALyGO
For comparison, under laws like these you could throw half of Ireland's folk singers in jail for "glorifying terrorism." It would have a massive chilling effect. Even humour wouldn't be safe. Would @Rubberbandits have self-censored their song "Up the Ra"?

#Spain's alarming lurch into repression of artistic freedoms and freedom of political expression has repeatedly earned it "country of concern" status from civil society watchdogs like @freemuse98, alongside such countries as #Turkey, #Egypt & #SaudiArabia

freemuse.org/spain-country-…
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Nov 23, 2020
Assange supporters: we need your help!

Parliament votes on the Fundamental Rights report tomorrow.

As rapporteur, I tabled amendment 44 to put #Assange back in the text.

Write to your MEPs and urge them to please support #AssangeAmendment44 tomorrow
1. Find out who your MEPs are. (Click here: europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home )

2. Send them each an email.

3. Say why Assange case is important to press freedoms.

4. Urge their support for #AssangeAmendment44 to the Fundamental Rights report.

5. Remember to be respectful!
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