I’m proud to be Irish. I’m even more proud that we took a stand against Israel. It might not be much but it’s something. We didn’t just stand back in silence when children’s blood ran through the streets of Gaza and Lebanon, and now Syria as well. Zionism is a cancer in our world.
News in, water is wet!
It’s all performative. Last month, SF were busy selling out Ukraine in their manifesto, because they knew it would help them appeal to the right wing. Today, it’s back to supporting Palestine to keep the left on side.
They’re populists who know that their name and their history means they can cut through left-right politics and as a result they try to be everything to every man.
And I’m not saying that as a unionist with an axe to grind, but as someone who still finds themselves voting for SF as the least worst option (up until their betrayal of Ukraine at least)
This the same SF asking the ICC to change their definition of genocide because even they admit Israel isn’t meeting the definition?
Once again another bit of disinformation about the ICJ’s ruling back in January. They didn’t rule there was a ‘plausible’ genocide happening in Gaza.
This was interpreted by many, including some legal commentators, to mean that the court had concluded that the claim that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza was “plausible”.
This interpretation spread quickly, appearing in UN press releases, statements from campaign groups and many media outlets, including the BBC.
In April, however, Joan Donoghue, the president of the ICJ at the time of that ruling, said in a BBC interview that this was not what the court had ruled.
Rather, she said, the purpose of the ruling was to declare that South Africa had a right to bring its case against Israel and that Palestinians had “plausible rights to protection from genocide” – rights which were at a real risk of irreparable damage.
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I’m proud to be Irish. I’m even more proud that we took a stand against Israel. It might not be much but it’s something. We didn’t just stand back in silence when children’s blood ran through the streets of Gaza and Lebanon, and now Syria as well. Zionism is a cancer in our world.
News in, water is wet!
It’s all performative. Last month, SF were busy selling out Ukraine in their manifesto, because they knew it would help them appeal to the right wing. Today, it’s back to supporting Palestine to keep the left on side.
They’re populists who know that their name and their history means they can cut through left-right politics and as a result they try to be everything to every man.
And I’m not saying that as a unionist with an axe to grind, but as someone who still finds themselves voting for SF as the least worst option (up until their betrayal of Ukraine at least)
This the same SF asking the ICC to change their definition of genocide because even they admit Israel isn’t meeting the definition?
Once again another bit of disinformation about the ICJ’s ruling back in January. They didn’t rule there was a ‘plausible’ genocide happening in Gaza.
This was interpreted by many, including some legal commentators, to mean that the court had concluded that the claim that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza was “plausible”.
This interpretation spread quickly, appearing in UN press releases, statements from campaign groups and many media outlets, including the BBC.
In April, however, Joan Donoghue, the president of the ICJ at the time of that ruling, said in a BBC interview that this was not what the court had ruled.
Rather, she said, the purpose of the ruling was to declare that South Africa had a right to bring its case against Israel and that Palestinians had “plausible rights to protection from genocide” – rights which were at a real risk of irreparable damage.
[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g9g63jl17o](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g9g63jl17o)
Wasn’t the IRA’s war against international law?
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