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Whenever a Palestinian friend tells me how amazing the Irish have been in calling out the genocide, I tell them that our Taoiseach (Prime Minister) travelled to Israel to help out with pro-coloniser propaganda while voices in #Gaza were being suppressed.

1/16 I tell them that all of our main political parties "lick up" to the leaders in Washington DC because they are far more concerned about staying on the right side of the powerful Irish-American lobby than standing up for human rights or international law.

@LatuffCartoons

2/16

A reminder that @catherinegalway is spending the last Sunday before the election at a 'Rally for Palestine' in her native #Galway (tomorrow, 1pm).

@HeatherH might say she's "pro-business" and "pro-Europe", but her party has a shameful track record on #Palestine

1/8 Whereas Catherine has attended virtually every rally and vigil for #Gaza in #Galway for two years, @finegael members
- revived the Oireachtas Friends of Israel in 2022
- said they "stand with Israel" in late 2023
- blocked the Occupied Territories Bill for seven years

2/8

Astounding to see @catherinegalway now smeared as some sort of "pro-Hamas" candidate after she has spoken out for the children of Palestine, international law, human rights, and equality at virtually every rally or vigil there has been in #Galway over the past two years 🇵🇸 1/4 Three years ago in the Dáil, she asked Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD if he had read the 278 page @amnesty report which found that #Israel was committing the crime of #Apartheid.

He told her he hadn't the time and urged her to go and read a novel by an Irish author instead. 2/4

Both @LeoVaradkar and @PatKennyNT were on #Newstalk today complaining about lazy people on €350 a week who don't want to go back to work.

Isn't it amazing people on €200,000-plus a year can convince us the poor, low paid, and most vulnerable should be the focus of our ire? And what does it say about the "booming" economy we are supposed to have had, if thousands of people would rather the emergency #Covid_19 payment than returning to precarious, insecure, low paid jobs?

#IrelandLockdown