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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
Israeli Social Equality Minister May Golan: "I am personally proud of the genocide in Gaza, and 80 years from now, Jews will tell their grandchildren about what they did." They are proud of being criminals. 👹
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
Pure terrorism
Israeli soldier shoots Palestinian child in the West Bank
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Proper order This is what happens when a supremacist mindset attempts to force itself upon others. The worldwide support for the residents speaks volumes whilst Unionism continues to implode from within. The OO has shit the bed like that scene from Trainspotting
Representatives from 11 nationalist residents' groups are meeting with the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition about concerns over Drumcree. They have all signed a letter to say if the OO insist on parading down the GR agreements over other contentious parades could 'unravel'.
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
Replying to @JamieBrysonLLB
Apparently unionism and loyalism have suddenly become the eternal guardians of peaceful protest, restraint and the rule of law. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of NI knows how selective that version of history is. And this newfound horror at “mobs” gathering on streets is particularly difficult to take seriously from you. You were one of the prominent voices of the loyalist flag-protest FFS , a campaign built around people taking to the streets, demonstrations and road disruption. Some of those protests descended into serious disorder. And let’s talk about Drumcree. When loyalism didn’t get the outcome it wanted, NI didn’t simply witness dignified disagreement. We saw roadblocks, hijacked and burning vehicles, petrol bombs, attacks on police, widespread destruction and even gunfire. In 2000 alone, during protests surrounding Drumcree, RUC figures recorded 288 petrol-bomb incidents, 280 attacks on the security forces, 13 shooting incidents and 88 hijacked vehicles. Fifty-seven RUC officers and five soldiers were injured, while hundreds of vehicles and properties were damaged. People remember roads being brought to a standstill. They remember burning vehicles and barricades. They remember police coming under sustained attack. So spare everyone the fairy tale that loyalism has historically responded to decisions it dislikes with nothing but “great restraint and discipline.” There were occasions when loyalists didn’t merely stand on a road, they helped wreck the place when they didn’t get their way. And here’s the hypocrisy, that history does not make every unionist or loyalist responsible for those actions. You understood perfectly well that individuals were responsible for their own behaviour when protests involved your community. Yet today you take alleged offences by individuals and repeatedly smear an entire nationalist crowd as a “lawbreaking mob”. And now comes the remarkable transformation. After weeks of rhetoric about “Nazi-style” politics, “republican mobs”, “supremacists” and nationalist “hatred”, suddenly everything is about law, dignity, restraint and peaceful protest. It looks remarkably like an attempt to walk back the rhetoric now that the temperature has risen. The internet has receipts. The rhetoric didn’t disappear just because the strategy changed. If somebody commits an offence, investigate them and prosecute them on the evidence. Nobody gets a free pass. But collective guilt cannot suddenly become acceptable because the crowd is nationalist. And perhaps you might consider your own contribution to creating this atmosphere. From the outside, this increasingly looks less like leadership and more like someone who has spent weeks placing himself at the centre of a deeply sensitive dispute, escalating the language and enhancing his own profile in the process. You cannot spend weeks pouring rhetorical petrol on a fire and then arrive dressed as the fire marshal demanding everyone else explain the flames. And perhaps the most revealing words in the entire post are, “It’s time the State…faced them down.” There it is, old mentality that when one community refuses to yield, the State should simply “face them down.” History may be rather less flattering than the heroic role you have written for yourself You may imagine these weeks will record you as some fearless defender of loyalism who stood firm while everyone else surrendered. Others will remember something very different, armchair blogger who inserted himself into a decades-old dispute, relentlessly amplified the most inflammatory rhetoric, turned the temperature up, and then tried to distance himself from the resulting mess by suddenly discovering the language of restraint and the rule of law. That’s not fearless leadership, That’s a cautionary tale about what happens when you get in way over your head The rule of law didn’t suddenly become sacred when the people standing in the road stopped being loyalists.
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
Replying to @JimAllister
Ohh Jim, Jim, Jim Jim Jim, this is a fascinating new constitutional principle you’ve discovered, if a politician believes a law or legal framework is wrong and campaigns against it, they have no respect for the rule of law. Does that principle apply retrospectively to you? You spent years opposing the Northern Ireland Protocol, despite it being given legal effect by the sovereign UK Parliament, the parliment you tell us you adore, You didn’t simply say, “That’s the law, therefore I must respect it.” You challenged its legality and constitutionality all the way to the UK Supreme Court. When the Parades Commission, exercising powers given to it by law, made determinations you disagreed with, you didn’t tell unionists to quietly accept them either. In 2013 you called one determination a “farcical Parades Commission decision”, demanded that the Commission be abolished, and argued that the law should instead presume in favour of traditional Orange routes. And perhaps we should go further back. In 1985 you attended the first major meeting of the United Ulster Loyalist Front, established amid opposition to police rerouting of loyalist parades. The organisation had UDA involvement, including senior UDA figure John McMichael on its coordinating committee. Then in 1986 you helped organise the rally inaugurating the Ballymena battalion of Ulster Resistance. You marched at the head of hundreds of loyalists, contemporary accounts describe many wearing paramilitary, style uniforms and some wearing masks, before pledging your “personal support” for Ulster Resistance. You even complained that the RUC had tried to prevent the procession reaching the meeting and celebrated the colour party getting into town another way. So let’s dispense with the rewriting of history. When Jim Allister believed laws, institutions or government arrangements were wrong, he opposed them, protested against them, challenged them in court and campaigned to have them changed or abolished. And he was entitled to do so. Because the rule of law does not require citizens or politicians to believe every law is just. There is a fundamental difference between saying “this law is wrong and I will oppose it” and saying “the law does not apply to me.” If Michelle O’Neill is alleged to have committed an offence, investigate it and let the legal process determine that. But spare everyone the suggestion that simply opposing a law demonstrates contempt for the rule of law. Because by that newly invented standard, Jim, your own political history, from opposition to parade restrictions and the Anglo-Irish Agreement through Ulster Resistance, the Protocol and beyond, would make for some remarkably uncomfortable reading. Opposing laws and institutions you disagreed with was called political principle when you did it. It cannot suddenly become constitutional anarchy when Michelle O’Neill does it.
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
I think the Garvaghy Road standoff proves that the worm has turned in Northern Ireland. Not only has the bully has been faced down, but he’s found his usual allies have deserted him. No matter what final outcome, this is a turning point in NI.
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
🚨🇵🇸🇮🇱 Angelina Jolie is speaking out for Gaza, sharing satellite images that show whole neighborhoods reduced to rubble The actress pointed people to Google Earth and to UN findings that 82% of Gaza's structures were damaged, about two-thirds of them destroyed outright, with 1.98 million people, 94% of the population, needing shelter help as winter comes. She was clear about what the pictures leave out: "What it cannot show is what it means to live among it, what happened to the families who were killed, and what life is like for those who survived." The rubble is no longer a matter of debate when it's sitting on Google Earth. What's left to decide is whether the rest of the world lets those people spend the winter living in it. Source: Angelina Jolie on IG / Writer: Daniel
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
Devastating sight of Gaza… The only solution is for Israel to be made to rebuild Gaza and compensate the Palestinians for their losses and suffering. JUST LIKE THE GERMANS ARE STILL PAYING COMPENSATION.
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Former Irish President Mary Robinson, 81, and former New Zealand PM Helen Clark, 75, are at the Rafah border crossing protesting against Israel.
The Elders
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
The British Press: “don’t you dare say that the ideology behind this is racist”
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
🇵🇸🇮🇱 Welcome to Palestine… the birthplace of squatters' rights. How the entire world isn't revolted by this, is hard to understand. Source: adele.shoko(IG) / Writer: Jamie
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
Hey @grok, concise, no spin. Just 𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 before October 7, were ~100 𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟𝗜 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗢𝗦 pulled away from the 𝗚𝗔𝗭𝗔 𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥, while the 𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗔 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟 was suddenly relocated near that border? Yes or no only.
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
Hey @grok, concise, no spin. Did Israel have Hamas’s leaked 40-page October 7 battle blueprint over a year in advance, laying out the invasion point by point, with Hamas later executing it with shocking precision? Yes or no.
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Listen to that bollocks 😂 The very same people were literally burning familes out of their homes a few months back due to their nationality, religion & skin color Each attempt to contest their fascist and supremacist ways is responded to with absolute madness Case & point 🤪
What is happening in Garvaghy Road is a continuation of the ethnic cleansing, of Northern Ireland, of Unionists. Nationalist’s vision of a Shared Ireland is ‘what’s mine is mine and what yours is mine’.
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
🚨BREAKING🚨The genocidal state of Israel just murdered two Catholic women from Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza. They bombed their apartment building. A mother and her daughter. The rest of their family is injured. DO SOMETHING NOW @JDVance @SecRubio @POTUS
Israel just murdered another Catholic family mostly women in Gaza by bombing their apartment building. Good job to all those “Christians” and “Catholics” for Israel
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What he said☝🏼
Replying to @JamieBrysonLLB
Jamie, are you seriously lecturing an entire community about “supremacism” and being “above the law”? It would be hilarious if the rhetoric weren’t so poisonous for Christs sake You were convicted of possessing an extendable baton and later convicted over FOUR unnotified processions, convictions you unsuccessfully appealed. Yet apparently Jamie has appointed himself NI’s very own Professor of Law and Order Then we get the sermon about “hatred” from someone with an astonishing blind spot when the terrorism happens to be loyalist. You have defended the proposition that the UVF were not terrorists, characterised loyalist paramilitary violence as “counter terrorism”, and repeatedly attended a commemoration for UVF commander Robert “Squeak” Seymour. I am sure the victims and families of UVF terroism would welcome knowing that the UVF were engaged in “counter terrorism” rather than terrorism That’s quite the CV from which to deliver lectures on extremism. And what exactly is this supposed “nationalist supremacism”? Nationalists having equal political power? Residents saying no? Unionism discovering that “we demand it” no longer automatically means “we get it”? That’s not supremacy, Jamie. That’s equality The giveaway is always the same, when unionism doesn’t get precisely what it wants, you portray compromise as surrender, equality as persecution and nationalism as some existential threat. Perhaps the problem isn’t that “unionism must give and nationalism must get”. Perhaps it’s that the old days when unionism could simply dictate and nationalism was expected to know its place are gone. Nobody gets to dominate NI anymore. And if equality feels like oppression, perhaps examine the sense of entitlement rather than screaming “supremacism” at everyone else. A convicted lawbreaker with a remarkable penchant for sanitising the UVF preaching about the rule of law and nationalist “hatred” isn’t political analysis. It’s self-parody.
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
Replying to @JamieBrysonLLB
Jamie, are you seriously lecturing an entire community about “supremacism” and being “above the law”? It would be hilarious if the rhetoric weren’t so poisonous for Christs sake You were convicted of possessing an extendable baton and later convicted over FOUR unnotified processions, convictions you unsuccessfully appealed. Yet apparently Jamie has appointed himself NI’s very own Professor of Law and Order Then we get the sermon about “hatred” from someone with an astonishing blind spot when the terrorism happens to be loyalist. You have defended the proposition that the UVF were not terrorists, characterised loyalist paramilitary violence as “counter terrorism”, and repeatedly attended a commemoration for UVF commander Robert “Squeak” Seymour. I am sure the victims and families of UVF terroism would welcome knowing that the UVF were engaged in “counter terrorism” rather than terrorism That’s quite the CV from which to deliver lectures on extremism. And what exactly is this supposed “nationalist supremacism”? Nationalists having equal political power? Residents saying no? Unionism discovering that “we demand it” no longer automatically means “we get it”? That’s not supremacy, Jamie. That’s equality The giveaway is always the same, when unionism doesn’t get precisely what it wants, you portray compromise as surrender, equality as persecution and nationalism as some existential threat. Perhaps the problem isn’t that “unionism must give and nationalism must get”. Perhaps it’s that the old days when unionism could simply dictate and nationalism was expected to know its place are gone. Nobody gets to dominate NI anymore. And if equality feels like oppression, perhaps examine the sense of entitlement rather than screaming “supremacism” at everyone else. A convicted lawbreaker with a remarkable penchant for sanitising the UVF preaching about the rule of law and nationalist “hatred” isn’t political analysis. It’s self-parody.
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
Hey @grok, concise, no spin. Which civilised country produced this horror? Country only.
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A question that needs to keep being asked, the bastards must NOT get away with it 🔎 🔊
Ah, the Narrative of the Warring Paddies. Not heard that for a while. Mad little green paddies vs mad little orange paddies. With Chris left to referee. As bogus now as it ever was. Parades Comm and PSNI caused this mess. The question is ‘why?’
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🇮🇪 Niccolò O'Lugh✊🏼 retweeted
An uncle can legally marry his niece in Gaza and in Iran. An uncle marrying his niece. Demented stuff. No wait that's Israel. In Israel it's permitted, it's expressly outlawed in Gaza and Iran.
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