We shared this video in 2023, Today the journalist, Saleh Aljafarawi, has been killed after surviving 2 years of the genocide in Gaza.

Both Netanyahu and the Israeli defence minister have publicly declared today that once the prisoners are released they will begin their bombing again.... And not reported in any western media.

Remember when people said Israel would never bomb a school or hospital... In northern Gaza not one structure remains

Krasznahorkai on Kafka http://t.co/uAn2eWV1wW

@michaelmagee__ a new french review of Retour à Belfast on Babelio : "Sean revient à Belfast. De ses années d'études de lettres à Liverpool, on ne saura rien de plus. Parce que l'essentiel, c'est ce qu'il retrouve à Belfast... ... la galère. Du travail … https://t.co/f6N7dq37nV

it’s gone. That sense of the ground I walk on — hear how my first land changed. With genocide.

the British Army in the 1970s:

From IRISH TIMES, 12 July 1984. The speech that Jim forgot he made

I sat in a safe house with Filipino families who were told they are not the target but don’t believe it. They have left Ballymena. They are considering leaving the north/NI/Ireland. Their windows were smashed and they had to flee with passports and the clothes on their back.

In a now deleted post, a DUP Minister broadcasts the location of a temporary shelter in Larne for people driven out of their homes by the loyalist pogrom in Ballymena. The leisure centre was subsequently attacked and set on fire.

“They’re probably Pakis, that’s why they’re away running upstairs. Put their windows in around them.” Not racism says the unionist political class. Just “legitimate concerns.”

remember the burning of Bombay Street remember that over 3000 catholic families were forced out of their homes / made homeless between August and September 1969 remember how the Northern state was initiated and sustained by pogroms against the minority Catholic population

What we are witnessing in Ballymena is a modern-day pogrom. This is what awaits us in the South if we fail to seriously address the issue of the burgeoning far-right. https://t.co/nPUnLfrwty

Our teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital, Gaza, today, after another disastrous food distribution resulted in people getting shot by Israeli forces. Hear from patients: https://t.co/91tUzsOImh

Heaney’s collection North turns 50 next month, but does it still have relevance for today’s readers and critics? In advance of a major conference to mark the milestone at @QUBelfast, teaching fellow Stephen O’Neill reassesses the controversial anthology

the thing that really gets me down about this whole thing is how a lot of the big, influential, established writers with v large platforms who put their names to this (deeply problematic) letter not only didn't say or do anything whatsoever for so long, and who even, in some

@michaelmagee__ @sarahgilmartin_ i believe it was kim jong mick

I don’t think I’m being blinded by rage, biblical or otherwise, by noting that these are not equivalent acts.

mate called me Kim Jong Un when he saw me in that jacket and now that I see it, fair enough

I'm not quite sure where to start tonight with my weekly thanks. This has probably been the best week of my life. When I first thought about hosting my own book festival, it was just a pipe dream. How could I, a one-woman operation, do it? Well, I did, but I was not alone 🧵