🇺🇸 One of the victims in yesterday’s New York shooting was Wesley LePatner, CEO of Blackstone’s Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT), managing around $100B in assets. 🇺🇸Blackstone is a giant private equity firm buying up housing in low- and middle-income neighborhoods. It is seen as one of the main drivers of the rent crisis in the US. The UN has accused it of aggressive evictions and exploitative rent practices.

“We don’t serve Zionists.”

A restaurant in Spain refused to serve tourists from Israel and kicked them out. Israeli tourists are facing similar reactions in many parts of the world. Some feel uncomfortable with Palestinian flags hanging in restaurants and accuse the owners of being antisemitic, which often leads to their removal from the premises.

A recent example occurred in Naples, where a restaurant owner kicked out aggressive Zionists. In response, a counter-campaign was launched on social media, but thousands of locals gathered in front of the restaurant to show their support.

MOVIE | “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”

Synopsis: Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces. (#IRA)

Director: Ken Loach MOVIE | "Hunger"

Synopsis: Hunger is a 2008 historical drama film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was directed by Steve McQueen (in his feature directorial debut) and starred Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, and Liam McMahon.
The film stars Fassbender as #BobbySands, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member who led the second IRA hunger strike and participated in the no wash protest (led by Brendan "The Dark" Hughes) in which Irish republican prisoners tried to regain political status after it had been revoked by the British government in 1976. It outlines events in the Maze Prison in the period leading up to the hunger strike and its aftermath.