Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.
Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters
Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'
Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home
British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.
Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.
Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,
It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.
[Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.
The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.
The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
Public Inquiry >>
Promoting Human Rights in IrelandHuman Rights in Ireland >>
BAFTA?s Campaign to Transform Every TV Show into Unwatchable Climate Propaganda Has Stepped Up a Gea... Sat Aug 09, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
British TV grows more and more unwatchable with each passing day. That might be because BAFTA is on a mission to transform every TV show into climate propaganda ? and it's just stepped up a gear, says Steven Tucker.
The post BAFTA’s Campaign to Transform Every TV Show into Unwatchable Climate Propaganda Has Stepped Up a Gear appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Fri Aug 08, 2025 23:46 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Gen Z?s Dangerous Addiction to ?Buy Now Pay Later? Fri Aug 08, 2025 17:00 | Mary Gilleece
Gen Z is hooked on Klarna, says Mary Gilleece ? the seductive app that uses 'Buy Now Pay Later' to let users splash out with money they don't have. It's a debt-fuelled disaster waiting to happen.
The post Gen Z’s Dangerous Addiction to ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The West is Losing Its Head Over Israel Fri Aug 08, 2025 15:00 | Clive Pinder
Even the Arab League has refused to recognise a State of Palestine while Hamas is still in power ? a clarity lost on the compromised leaders of the West. Israel urgently needs to improve its PR, says Clive Pinder.
The post The West is Losing Its Head Over Israel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Misinformation ?Expert? Exposed as Left-Wing Activist Fri Aug 08, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Professor Joan Donovan is frequently wheeled out by the New York Times as an 'expert' on misinformation. Paul Thacker at the Disinformation Chronicle exposes her as a shoddy Left-wing activist with a fancy title.
The post Misinformation ‘Expert’ Exposed as Left-Wing Activist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lockdown Skeptics >>
international |
rights, freedoms and repression |
news report
Monday January 11, 2010 11:18
by TD - Free Palestine Campaign
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (11 of 11)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11Last Friday, as has been happening the past two years there was a vigorous protest in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalemin against the ongoing Israeli ethnic cleansing of that area to make lebensraum for the "settlers," in contrast to the brutal suppression of the demonstrators - overwhelmingly comprised of Israelis with conscience - three and four weeks back where there were mass arrests, this protest was relatively benign.
However, two weeks ago the colonists came to the tent of Sheikh Jarrah evictee, the indomitable and personable Nasser Ghawi to beat the crap out of him, fought off and stymied in this they returned on their Sabbath holy day to finish the task but injured a French activist instead, there are two tents where the evicted Kurd and Ghawi families live and sleep; in the case of the Kurd family at the side of their lost house and in the case of the Ghawi family on the pavement oppossite their, again, lost dwelling. To forestall these regular attacks or at least to give warning, internationals keep watch 24 hours a day and sleep on a rota basis in the same tents - last Friday night there were activists from Tel Aviv, Germany, UK, Afghanistan, the US and France.
On Saturday morning, it was good to witness Palestinian sumoud or steadfastness in action when I was wakened by the tent being readied for their childrens school lessons. Life goes on here in severe constraint and under the cosh and guns of the Israeli police, IOF and colonists but the nonviolent resistance goes even more so; powerful, deep, undimmed and awesome.
Life Under the Tent & Settler Rocks
Caption: Video Id: k7OOaAgJfQE Type: Youtube Video
Sheikh Jarrah Protest : Life Under the Tent & Settler Rocks
The stink of corruption and criminality isn't confined to Fianna Fail and the Catholic Church in Ireland, for CRH has wafted it over here to Palestine where through its Israeli subsidiary, Nesher Cement, it provides a large portion of the cement for the construction of the Apartheid/Annexation Wall and illegal colony-settlements in the West Bank. To boot, subject to Israeli monopoly clearance, it has acquired Hanson Israel "Israel's 2nd largest building materials company, which operates illegal quarries, asphalt, aggregate and cement factories in the Occupied West Bank" http://www.ipsc.ie/
CRH (formerly known as Cement Roadstone Holdings) is clearly complicit in the breaking of international law in its activities in the West Bank, specifically, the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice which ruled in 2004 that the Wall was illegal, had to be torn down and reparations paid to the Palestinians.
The Irish Times reported on Jan 5th last that: "CRH profit to fall 55% in 2009" http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0105/...6.htm and it was these propitious tidings that stimulated Iyad Burnat, head of Bil'in's Popular Commitee, to launch a further withering verbal attack on CRH's complicity in Israeli war crimes at the Wall during last Friday's protest in Bil'in.
Wikipedia reports that: A tribunal of inquiry set up by the Irish Government to investigate corrupt payments to politicians, discovered that between 1987 and 1994, a private, unlicenced bank had been operated from the registered offices of CRH by its chairman, Des Traynor. It was further found that eight directors of CRH had control of accounts in this bank. These directors were:Tony Barry, James Culliton, Michael Dargan, Gerald Hickey, Diarmuid Quirke, Desmond Traynor, Robert Willis and Richard Wood. The scheme was run in conjunction with Guinness Mahon Bank and Ansbacher Cayman Bank. Its founding purpose was to avoid currency exchange controls, but was later used to facilitate personal tax evasion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRH_plc
Malodorous as all this is, CRH aggravates the stench further with the hum of hypocrisy as it purports on its website to comply with the “highest standards of corporate and social responsibility.”
Photo: Hamde Abu Rahma
This activist sustained a shoulder injury from a gun fire tear gas canister
IOF attempting to arrest an Israeli Anarchist Against the Wall - happily, the attempt failed
Iyad Burnat in distress after being tear gassed
Caption: Video Id: -Hrv0hBrp6o Type: Youtube Video
Bil'in protests against CRH & Egypt's Wall of Death
Alison Weir, executive director of If Americans Knew lacerates Bono in a Counterpunch article for his ill informed whining in the New York Times: "I’ll place my hopes on the possibility — however remote at the moment — that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandhi, their King, their Aung San Suu Kyi."
Ms Weir informs Ireland's most notorious preachy hypocrite that: Your hope has already been fulfilled in the Palestinian territories. Unfortunately, these Palestinian Gandhis and Kings are being killed and imprisoned.
The first Palestinian Gandhi to be rounded up in this recent purge was young Mohammad Othman, taken on Sept. 22 when he was returning home from speaking in Norway about nonviolent strategies to oppose Israeli oppression and land confiscation. He has now been held for 107 days without charges, much of it in solitary confinement.
The second was Abdallah Abu Rahma, a schoolteacher (from Bil'in) and farmer taken from his home on Dec. 10, the only one to be charged with a crime. After holding him for several days, Israel finally came up with a charge: “illegal weapons possession” – referring to the peace sign he had fashioned out of the spent teargas cartridges and bullets that Israel had shot at nonviolent demonstrators. (One such cartridge pierced the skull of Tristan Anderson, an American who was photographing the aftermath of a nonviolent march, causing part of his right frontal lobe to be removed.) ... Full article on link.
This is the Bono who has given away millions of his own personal wealth to charities in impoverished countries and who intends to do a U2 concert in aid of the refugees in Gaza? Thought not.
As head of Bil'in's Popular Committee, I ask all activists in Ireland and particularly the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign to increase the pressure on CRH through pickets of their HQ in Dublin, petitions, public awareness flyers, etc, as with the recent dramatic drop in that company's profits they are now vulnerable. A similar campaign against Veolia has already yielded results with that rogue outfit losing billions worth of contracts worldwide through its involvement in the illegal East Jerusalem tramway.
Caption: Video Id: c4E1ENvkYMU&feature Type: Youtube Video
Bilin weekly demo. 08.01.2010. By Haitham Al Katib-media. Coordinator of f.f.j
By the way, Tommy, yours is the best and most on-the-spot reporting we're getting over here, so congratulations to you, highly commendable. CRH . . . well, how can we be surprised?
Last night in an accelerating campaign of arrests and sheer terror raids by the Israeli Occupation Forces on Bil'in, the home of 22 year old Yaseen Mohammed Yaseen was raided at 3.14am approx where he was arrested, bundled into the back of a jeep and ferried to the military checkpoint at the nearby Apartheid Wall. Yaseen was arrested for ostensibly stone throwing at one of the Bil'in's Friday weekly demonstrations at the Wall, this followed hard on the heels of several previous failed attempts to do so, what is chilling is the cold dedication of the IOF to terrorise and cow the villagers of Bil'in into submission and to spare no effort to suppress any resistance to the occupation, for some 35-40 soldiers infiltrated the village through the olive groves between the village and Wall, all this effort for a young man whose real "crime" was particitating in the nonviolent demonstrations but who grew tired of running and wishing for closure returned to the village last week knowing the high risk involved as Israel's "internal security" Shabak forces have informers seeded in the community. Yaseen didn't know why the IOF were hunting him but the usual suspect, catch all charge was stone throwing which brings jail sentences of nine months or more in Israel's draconian and corrupt judicial system for the Occupied Territories and Yaseen also knew of the IOF's ruthless framing of some of his fellow villagers and maybe he should have kept evading his hunters but he was tired, tired of running: Mohammed Khatib, a member of Bil'in's Popular Committee was charged with stone throwing which he easily refuted when he proved he was abroad at the time of the alleged offence on a speaking tourAlso, media coordinator of the Committee, Abdallah Abu Rahma is currently in Israeli custody pending his trial for "possession of arms" - spent tear gas canisters collected at the Wall for display to the many fact finding internationals visiting Bil'in.
Yesterday, in Ramallah an arrest was effected which has put the international activists in Bil'in on tenterhooks: Eva Novákováa a 28 year old Czech national and media coordinator with the International Solidarity Movement was lifted from her Manara square apartment at 3am by the IOF and Israel's special "Oz" immigration task force and she awaits deportation. Maan News reports that: Her attorney, Omer Shatz, said Israel's alleged use of its special "Oz" unit was illegal. "This arrest is part of the continued and illegal use of the immigration police against activists, for political purposes," Shatz said in an ISM statement. Immigration police, in general, work under the explicit authority of the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, Shatz added, and thus would have no business operating in Palestinian cities (Link).
Three weeks ago, Bil'in's international house was raided by the IOF and Shabak and now it appears the "Oz" unit in tow - no arrests were effected as all the internationals on Israelis visas were within the prescribed time period.
Aftermath of the arrest
Caption: Video Id: 6psKE34DoOU Type: Youtube Video
IOF Night Raid on Bil'in : Yaseen Mohammed Yaseen Arrested
Nawal Akram
Photos: EAPPI activist Miranda Pinch (Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel)
Thank you T.D for all of your up to date reporting & coverage. Keep it up, solidarity.
To echo the others - thanks a million Tommy for your reporting and work out there in the West Bank. In the IPSC, we're responding to the Palestinian call to focus on CRH, which is helping build the apartheid wall and settlements. We're rolling out a campaign, asking folks to divest from CRH, councils to rethink giving them contracts etc while they are engaged in illegal activities in Israel. Part of this is on-the-streets action, but the campaign is going to have to work on all levels to succeed.