Tucker was on Israel tvs version of Newsnight last night. He was brilliant
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Epic performance
Is there a vidjo of it?
A direct response to the hypocrite Sears in this paragraph. Good. She could and should have gone in harder.
Israel is the author of its own bad name. When Irish people are maligned as bystanders for, allegedly, not denouncing Hamas and Hizbullah enough, you have to wonder: who are the real bystanders? Those who cannot turn a blind eye when a state commits crimes against humanity â or those who try to warp that concern into an expression of hatred?
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Other than being the best in the world at genocide, nobody beats the Yids on deflection and whataboutery
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Dan is on the Brendan OâConnor Show!
For a change!
And Sarah Carey is on for the double pivot establishment cunt formation!
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Discussing EOIN OâMALLEYâS ARTICLE in the Sindo!
A full court pro-Israel press!
Theyâre the only democracy in the Middle East donât forget!
And you can go to gay sex shops while you cheer on genocide!
Dan is quoting Simon Schama!
With admiration!
While making no attempt to examine whether what he said might be a load of bollocks!
Defer to REPSPECTABILITY!
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And Brendan lacking the balls to challenge him on it.
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I was listening to Matt cooper on radio the other day and a few listeners txt in complaining about him calling Israelâs actions in Gaza as genocide . So Matt took on board their angst and said heâd call it mass murder instead .
11am-12pm on a Sunday on RTE Radio 1 has always been the radio slot of Official Ireland.
Political editor of the Irish Times swallows a bunch of pro-Israel talking points hook, line and sinker.
Trump to Netanyahu
- âYouâre fucking crazy. Youâd be in prison if it werenât for me. Iâm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.â*
Britain has gone crazy
A judge has imposed lengthy custodial sentences on four Palestine Action activists who smashed up drones and other equipment at an Israeli arms manufacturerâs UK factory after ruling that there was a âterrorist connectionâ to their offending.
Charlotte Head, 30, and Leona Kamio, 30, were each jailed for five years and Fatema Rajwani, 21, was sentenced to four years and 8 months for criminal damage in relation to a 2024 break-in at the Elbit Systems UK site in Gloucestershire. Samuel Corner, 23, who was additionally convicted of grievous bodily harm without intent for striking Sgt Kate Evans with a sledgehammer, was sentenced to seven years and eight months. Each will also spend an additional year on licence and be subject to 15 years of terrorist notification requirements.
A report relied on by the prosecution at Fridayâs sentencing hearing said the raid on the factory had caused ÂŁ1.2m of damage, including to 41 military assets. The report referred to ÂŁ395,056 of damage to six units in an unnamed drone system as well as damage to other unmanned aerial vehicles.
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The activists drove a prison van through the gates of the Elbit Systems site. Photograph: X
Mr Justice Johnson told the four they had participated in a âcarefully planned and highly sophisticated attackâ, adding: âThe fact that you were trying to shut down a company that you thought was acting unlawfully does not reduce the seriousness of the offence.â
He said Corner had shown no remorse and had used âextreme and gratuitous force against a vulnerable police officer who was acting in the course of her dutiesâ.
Announcing his finding of a âterrorist connectionâ under section 69 of the Sentencing Act, ahead of deciding on the sentences, Johnson said: âI am sure that each defendantâs offence of criminal damage involved serious damage to property, was designed to intimidate the UK government and a section of the public [Elbit employees and those of other businesses linked to Elbit] and was for the purpose of advancing a political or ideological cause.â
Representing Head, Rajiv Menon KC had told Johnson that it was unprecedented for the prosecution to apply for a judge to sentence a defendant as a terrorist for a non-violent offence. Menon said it was âan invitation to chilling, creeping authoritarianism that undermines the very fabric of our societyâ.
In written arguments, Mira Hammad KC, representing Kamio, said the defendants had initially been arrested on suspicion of involvement in acts of terrorism but not charged with those offences âshowing that a deliberate decision was taken not to submit the crownâs case [that there was terrorism] to the arbitrament of a jury âŚ[therefore] the court should not allow the crown to use [section 69] as a vehicle for enhancing sentence in circumstances where it has determined that a conviction for the same offence by the jury is unlikelyâ.
Tom Wainwright KC, representing Corner, said a terrorist connection finding against the defendants would also mean the suffragettes, the Greenham Common women and the Trident Ploughshares movement were terrorists. âItâs wrong for someone to be sentenced for a more serious offence of which they have not been convicted,â he added.
After the terrorist connection finding Menon wept while speaking of Headâs character. Wainwright said of the destruction of drones: âThey may have been involved in taking the lives of men, women and children in Gaza. That is why they acted. Thatâs something that â in a sane world â would be commended.â
âThe terrorist connection finding means the four will have to serve at least two-thirds of their sentences for criminal damage in prison.
Reading her witness statement, Evans, occasionally crying, said: âThe overall impact of this incident has been profound and long-lasting,â she told the court. âIt has affected my physical health, mental wellbeing, confidence, career and family life. I am not the same person I was before this happened, I feel my personality has changed.â
During the trial, Corner said he panicked after being pepper sprayed and acted to protect a co-defendant he believed was being seriously hurt.
Approximately 500 protesters gathered outside Woolwich crown court in south-east London, including some holding placards that read âSaving lives is not terrorism. I support Palestine Actionâ. More than 100 people were arrested for allegedly supporting Palestine Action, which remains proscribed under the Terrorism Act pending the court of appealâs judgment on Monday on the lawfulness of the ban.