When is a town not a town?
The use of terms by international media outlets in their coverage of the Israel-Palestine issue has a crucial effect on how the world sees it.
15/03/2023
Stunning reversal for Occupied Territories Bill
IPSC-sponsored EU Citizens Initiative only gathers 27.7% of the required votes With Frances Black’s Occupied Territories Bill languishing in the Dáil after being blocked on
21/02/2023
Palestinian representative now wants to direct Irish aviation policy
The number one priority of Irish aviation policy should be the well-being of Irish people and the Irish economy. On November 7th last, the Israeli
13/11/2022
An open letter to Richard Boyd-Barrett
I attended the debate between TD Richard Boyd Barrett of People Before Profit and Mark Humphreys of DCU in the Eblana Club, Dun Laoghaire on
01/11/2022
A Deputy and his Daydreams
The Israel-Palestine issue is highly complex and will not be resolved by the fairytales and vague daydreaming of public representatives. On the evening of Thursday,
28/10/2022
Commending the Cowards: Mahmoud Abbas and the 1972 Munich Murderers
“The repeated eulogising of the Munich terrorists by Abbas and his clique is a scathing reflection of the low character of Fatah and the Palestinian
05/09/2022
Why is the Irish government silent on Miloon Kothari’s comments?
“Surely it is by now an established principle of Irish foreign policy that if we don’t condemn racism, xenophobia and religion-based hatred, we are at
04/08/2022
When will the world condemn Palestinians on child-brainwashing?
“What can it be like for a child to hear that – for their political leaders – the ideal would be for them to end
24/07/2022
An overdue slap on the wrist for Trócaire
Trócaire needs to jettison what seems to be an Israel-hating cabal that has apparently hijacked the organisation. It’s that simple. Regular readers of this website
06/06/2022
Israel battles two viruses
It started in the earliest days of the Covid pandemic. Scarcely had news spread in January 2020 of the arrival of the coronavirus from China
16/12/2021
The Refugees that the World Forgot
To say that they were well integrated with the indigenous people – as some have stated – is completely missing the point. When your ancestors
30/11/2021
On this day in 1947: UN votes to establish Jewish & Arab states in British Mandate Palestine
UN General Assembly votes to establish Jewish & Arab states in British Mandate Palestine, 29 November 1947 Ten years ago, the Arabic word Nakba (‘catastrophe’)
28/11/2021