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Independent. Socialist. Former Member of European Parliament.

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The famous "Picard facepalm" meme is from the Star Trek episode "The Drumhead," aired in 1991, in which the crew becomes ensnared in a vicious spiral of national security paranoia, xenophobia, irrational suspicion and runaway confirmation bias and begins to carry out an ever-widening witch hunt against innocent crewmembers, baselessly and opportunistically accusing them of being "Romulan agents," stripping them of their rights and requiring them to prove their innocence. Picard, having opposed it all along, is eventually hauled before the inquisition himself, provoking the famous "facepalm" gesture. He then refuses to defend himself, instead making a general plea for the entire system of rights that is under attack. "With the first link the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." His opponent, the inquisitor, enraged by this, loses control and exposes herself as an authoritarian, and her spell is broken. The episode was originally an allegory for McCarthyism in United States history. It should be required viewing for European establishments today, now a decade deep into a reenactment of the very same pathology, extending a culture of national security suspicion over everything, converting every domain of civilian life into a source of "threats," stigmatising differences of political opinion as "disinformation," thuggishly smearing opponents as being "pro-Russian" and eroding the framework of fundamental rights that gives our societies any claim to being democracies in the first place. Those of us who know the importance of those rights will have lost count of how many times over recent years, listening to European political leaders lurch further into this psychosis, we have felt like putting our head in our hands in the universal gesture of dismay. RIP Patrick Stewart

The famous "Picard facepalm" meme is from the Star Trek episode "The Drumhead," aired in 1991, in which the crew becomes ensnared in a vicious spiral of national security paranoia, xenophobia, irrational suspicion and runaway confirmation bias and begins to carry out an ever-widening witch hunt against innocent crewmembers, baselessly and opportunistically accusing them of being "Romulan agents," stripping them of their rights and requiring them to prove their innocence. Picard, having opposed it all along, is eventually hauled before the inquisition himself, provoking the famous "facepalm" gesture. He then refuses to defend himself, instead making a general plea for the entire system of rights that is under attack. "With the first link the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." His opponent, the inquisitor, enraged by this, loses control and exposes herself as an authoritarian, and her spell is broken. The episode was originally an allegory for McCarthyism in United States history. It should be required viewing for European establishments today, now a decade deep into a reenactment of the very same pathology, extending a culture of national security suspicion over everything, converting every domain of civilian life into a source of "threats," stigmatising differences of political opinion as "disinformation," thuggishly smearing opponents as being "pro-Russian" and eroding the framework of fundamental rights that gives our societies any claim to being democracies in the first place. Those of us who know the importance of those rights will have lost count of how many times over recent years, listening to European political leaders lurch further into this psychosis, we have felt like putting our head in our hands in the universal gesture of dismay. RIP Patrick Stewart

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Determined mood here in a truly international crowd outside the Peace Palace at the Hague, as we witness the opening of South Africa's case at the #ICJ accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. It's not just Israel on trial today; it's the international community. #StopGazaGenocide

Determined mood here in a truly international crowd outside the Peace Palace at the Hague, as we witness the opening of South Africa's case at the #ICJ accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. It's not just Israel on trial today; it's the international community. #StopGazaGenocide

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After days of genocidal Israeli violence against defenceless Palestinians, as we make our way to Strasbourg for a plenary, the flag of Israel still flies on our Parliament building in Brussels, bringing disgrace on all of us. President Metsola, take this flag down! Roberta Metsola

After days of genocidal Israeli violence against defenceless Palestinians, as we make our way to Strasbourg for a plenary, the flag of Israel still flies on our Parliament building in Brussels, bringing disgrace on all of us. President Metsola, take this flag down! Roberta Metsola

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A mighty crowd on the streets of Dublin today. EU leaders have disgraced themselves as accomplices to genocide, but people in Ireland proudly and defiantly stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Beidh an Phalaistín saor ón abhainn go dtí an fharraige.

A mighty crowd on the streets of Dublin today. EU leaders have disgraced themselves as accomplices to genocide, but people in Ireland proudly and defiantly stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Beidh an Phalaistín saor ón abhainn go dtí an fharraige.

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Who am I to disagree? Incredible to receive the support of the legendary Annie Lennox. #EUelections2024 #Daly4Dublin #Daly4Europe

Who am I to disagree? Incredible to receive the support of the legendary Annie Lennox. #EUelections2024 #Daly4Dublin #Daly4Europe

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Amazing performance by the Symphony Orchestra and Choir of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the award ceremony of the 3rd International Sobh Festival! A great honour to be present, with 🇵🇸 solidarity dominant! Press TV 🔻

Amazing performance by the Symphony Orchestra and Choir of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the award ceremony of the 3rd International Sobh Festival! A great honour to be present, with 🇵🇸 solidarity dominant! Press TV 🔻

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On the left, gormless EU cringe from the European Commission. On the right, all I can think of while watching it. EU assistance to Israel's genocide makes me ashamed to be European. All I want for Christmas is a #ceasefire in #Gaza and justice for #Palestine.

On the left, gormless EU cringe from the European Commission. On the right, all I can think of while watching it. EU assistance to Israel's genocide makes me ashamed to be European. All I want for Christmas is a #ceasefire in #Gaza and justice for #Palestine.

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The famous "Picard facepalm" meme is from the Star Trek episode "The Drumhead," aired in 1991, in which the crew becomes ensnared in a vicious spiral of national security paranoia, xenophobia, irrational suspicion and runaway confirmation bias and begins to carry out an ever-widening witch hunt against innocent crewmembers, baselessly and opportunistically accusing them of being "Romulan agents," stripping them of their rights and requiring them to prove their innocence. Picard, having opposed it all along, is eventually hauled before the inquisition himself, provoking the famous "facepalm" gesture. He then refuses to defend himself, instead making a general plea for the entire system of rights that is under attack. "With the first link the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." His opponent, the inquisitor, enraged by this, loses control and exposes herself as an authoritarian, and her spell is broken. The episode was originally an allegory for McCarthyism in United States history. It should be required viewing for European establishments today, now a decade deep into a reenactment of the very same pathology, extending a culture of national security suspicion over everything, converting every domain of civilian life into a source of "threats," stigmatising differences of political opinion as "disinformation," thuggishly smearing opponents as being "pro-Russian" and eroding the framework of fundamental rights that gives our societies any claim to being democracies in the first place. Those of us who know the importance of those rights will have lost count of how many times over recent years, listening to European political leaders lurch further into this psychosis, we have felt like putting our head in our hands in the universal gesture of dismay. RIP Patrick Stewart

The famous "Picard facepalm" meme is from the Star Trek episode "The Drumhead," aired in 1991, in which the crew becomes ensnared in a vicious spiral of national security paranoia, xenophobia, irrational suspicion and runaway confirmation bias and begins to carry out an ever-widening witch hunt against innocent crewmembers, baselessly and opportunistically accusing them of being "Romulan agents," stripping them of their rights and requiring them to prove their innocence. Picard, having opposed it all along, is eventually hauled before the inquisition himself, provoking the famous "facepalm" gesture. He then refuses to defend himself, instead making a general plea for the entire system of rights that is under attack. "With the first link the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." His opponent, the inquisitor, enraged by this, loses control and exposes herself as an authoritarian, and her spell is broken. The episode was originally an allegory for McCarthyism in United States history. It should be required viewing for European establishments today, now a decade deep into a reenactment of the very same pathology, extending a culture of national security suspicion over everything, converting every domain of civilian life into a source of "threats," stigmatising differences of political opinion as "disinformation," thuggishly smearing opponents as being "pro-Russian" and eroding the framework of fundamental rights that gives our societies any claim to being democracies in the first place. Those of us who know the importance of those rights will have lost count of how many times over recent years, listening to European political leaders lurch further into this psychosis, we have felt like putting our head in our hands in the universal gesture of dismay. RIP Patrick Stewart

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As Israel loses in the court of public opinion, we see desperate attempts to widen the conflict. All with the blessing and material support of the #ButcherBiden, a US President who claims Irish descent. Keep our country out of your mouth, Joe Biden. Your ancestors disown you.

As Israel loses in the court of public opinion, we see desperate attempts to widen the conflict. All with the blessing and material support of the #ButcherBiden, a US President who claims Irish descent. Keep our country out of your mouth, Joe Biden. Your ancestors disown you.

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How dare Ursula von der Leyen declare "Europe stands with Israel"? She does not speak for me. She does not speak for Ireland. She does not speak for the citizens of Europe. We stand for peace, international law and justice for the people of #Palestine. It's time for her to go.

How dare Ursula von der Leyen declare "Europe stands with Israel"? She does not speak for me. She does not speak for Ireland. She does not speak for the citizens of Europe. We stand for peace, international law and justice for the people of #Palestine. It's time for her to go.

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A historic crime is unfolding in Gaza & the EU is in it up to its neck. MEPs sit & watch the slaughter & cannot even condemn it, calling it a "humanitarian crisis," as if it was caused by the weather. Infamy. EU will never live down the shame of today's resolution. #LongLiveGaza

A historic crime is unfolding in Gaza & the EU is in it up to its neck. MEPs sit & watch the slaughter & cannot even condemn it, calling it a "humanitarian crisis," as if it was caused by the weather. Infamy. EU will never live down the shame of today's resolution. #LongLiveGaza

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Israel has spent a month pounding Gaza into rubble and filling the streets with children's blood. With European and American weapons, and European and American support. Still Ursula von der Leyen cannot even say the word: "ceasefire." This isn't just Israel's genocide. It's Europe's too.

Israel has spent a month pounding Gaza into rubble and filling the streets with children's blood. With European and American weapons, and European and American support. Still Ursula von der Leyen cannot even say the word: "ceasefire." This isn't just Israel's genocide. It's Europe's too.

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I find it jaw-dropping the complete lack of curiosity among EU elites as to who is reponsible for an act of sabotage against the infrastructure of an EU Member State and the livelihoods of our citizens. Where is the discussion? Where are the questions? #NordstreamSabotage

I find it jaw-dropping the complete lack of curiosity among EU elites as to who is reponsible for an act of sabotage against the infrastructure of an EU Member State and the livelihoods of our citizens. Where is the discussion? Where are the questions? #NordstreamSabotage

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4.5 million Palestinians live under occupation, with no rights, victims of dehumanisation, checkpoints, settler violence, brutalisation, military courts, and no vote. Their occupier, Israel, is what Europe, with a straight face, calls "the only democracy in the Middle East."

4.5 million Palestinians live under occupation, with no rights, victims of dehumanisation, checkpoints, settler violence, brutalisation, military courts, and no vote. Their occupier, Israel, is what Europe, with a straight face, calls "the only democracy in the Middle East."

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Irish people recognise colonial oppression. We want nothing to do with EU support for the rotten genocidal apartheid regime of Israel. Ireland does NOT "stand with Israel." Ireland stands in solidarity with #Palestine. Beidh an Phalaistín saor ón abhainn go dtí an fharraige.

Irish people recognise colonial oppression. We want nothing to do with EU support for the rotten genocidal apartheid regime of Israel. Ireland does NOT "stand with Israel." Ireland stands in solidarity with #Palestine. Beidh an Phalaistín saor ón abhainn go dtí an fharraige.

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It is hypocritical to mark International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women without calling for a #CeasefireNOW in #Gaza. 1000s of Gazan women have been murdered by Israel. 800,000 displaced, 50,000 of them pregnant. Register & recognise the violence of this situation.

It is hypocritical to mark International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women without calling for a #CeasefireNOW in #Gaza. 1000s of Gazan women have been murdered by Israel. 800,000 displaced, 50,000 of them pregnant. Register & recognise the violence of this situation.

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Overwhelmed by the spectacular show of solidarity today in Hyde Park. What a demonstration of people power! All over Europe, all over the world, the movement has never been more powerful, nor more international. We will keep fighting. Palestine will be free. Palestine Solidarity Campaign Stop the War Coalition

Overwhelmed by the spectacular show of solidarity today in Hyde Park. What a demonstration of people power! All over Europe, all over the world, the movement has never been more powerful, nor more international. We will keep fighting. Palestine will be free. Palestine Solidarity Campaign Stop the War Coalition

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A year on, as the war continues, MEPs parrot the propaganda line: "Ukraine must win." Ordinary people never win in war. Shout "glory" all you want; there is no glory in the grave. It is time for the silent majority to take to the streets to demand peace.

A year on, as the war continues, MEPs parrot the propaganda line: "Ukraine must win." Ordinary people never win in war. Shout "glory" all you want; there is no glory in the grave. It is time for the silent majority to take to the streets to demand peace.

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Israel asks us to believe there is no genocide in Gaza. A state proven to have lied time and again. Outrageous distortion and barefaced lies are how Israel operates. And still media platform the propaganda. Well, it's not going to work. The ugly truth is there for all to see.

Israel asks us to believe there is no genocide in Gaza. A state proven to have lied time and again. Outrageous distortion and barefaced lies are how Israel operates. And still media platform the propaganda. Well, it's not going to work. The ugly truth is there for all to see.

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The Council conclusions are unforgiveable. A ceasefire - in line with UN demands - was the absolute minimum. This is worse than nothing. EU has greenlit genocide. This will NEVER be forgotten. No return to business as usual. We, and millions more, will not give up this fight.

The Council conclusions are unforgiveable. A ceasefire - in line with UN demands - was the absolute minimum. This is worse than nothing. EU has greenlit genocide. This will NEVER be forgotten. No return to business as usual. We, and millions more, will not give up this fight.

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World Children's Day 2023. EU leaders sit around congratulating themselves for signing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, while their ally, Israel, "defends itself" by raining white phosphorus on a concentration camp full of children. Well, aren't we great?

World Children's Day 2023. EU leaders sit around congratulating themselves for signing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, while their ally, Israel, "defends itself" by raining white phosphorus on a concentration camp full of children. Well, aren't we great?

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No surprise at all most spyware comes from Israel, the global nerve centre of repressive technology, tested in the "Palestine laboratory." The Parliament's position on it should be: No sale of it. No use of it. Full stop. The end. It's not abuse that's the problem. It's use.

No surprise at all most spyware comes from Israel, the global nerve centre of repressive technology, tested in the "Palestine laboratory." The Parliament's position on it should be: No sale of it. No use of it. Full stop. The end. It's not abuse that's the problem. It's use.

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Every day the mask falls further! US attacks Yemen: no authorisation, illegal! MEPs want EU to send a navy! Fatuous appeals to "international law" from enablers of genocide! 90K Gaza casualties but bloodless interruption of shipping is top priority!? Cut it out! End the genocide!

Every day the mask falls further! US attacks Yemen: no authorisation, illegal! MEPs want EU to send a navy! Fatuous appeals to "international law" from enablers of genocide! 90K Gaza casualties but bloodless interruption of shipping is top priority!? Cut it out! End the genocide!

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For years it was clear "disinfo" policy was an EU power grab, stifling public discourse and politicial disagreement. Now the mask is off. As it backs Israeli terror, the EU presses social media, which quash Palestinian voices, while paid-for Israeli propaganda pops up everywhere.

For years it was clear "disinfo" policy was an EU power grab, stifling public discourse and politicial disagreement. Now the mask is off. As it backs Israeli terror, the EU presses social media, which quash Palestinian voices, while paid-for Israeli propaganda pops up everywhere.

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The EU must listen to Palestinian voices. Why are Israeli victims dignified with names but Palestinians die anonymous in their thousands? EU feigns "concern" but no comprehension of the enormity of what is being wiped out. There must be a #CeasefireNOW.

The EU must listen to Palestinian voices. Why are Israeli victims dignified with names but Palestinians die anonymous in their thousands? EU feigns "concern" but no comprehension of the enormity of what is being wiped out. There must be a #CeasefireNOW.

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Today is #NakbaDay. 75 years ago a catastrophe was visited on the Palestinian people - the violent beginnings of Israel's occupation. It continues today. Ursula von der Leyen recently described these events as a "dream." That is unacceptable, and must be condemned. #VonDerLies #Nakba

Today is #NakbaDay. 75 years ago a catastrophe was visited on the Palestinian people - the violent beginnings of Israel's occupation. It continues today. Ursula von der Leyen recently described these events as a "dream." That is unacceptable, and must be condemned. #VonDerLies #Nakba

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The governments in the West may shield Israel, but the people everywhere see it for what it is. We do not stand in "full solidarity" with a state that is murdering thousands of children as we speak. A new Middle East of peace and justice must and will be built. #CeasefireNOW

The governments in the West may shield Israel, but the people everywhere see it for what it is. We do not stand in "full solidarity" with a state that is murdering thousands of children as we speak. A new Middle East of peace and justice must and will be built. #CeasefireNOW

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