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Dreamer n fixer, interested in everything . Head of Development & Strategic Initiatives, UCD Library. All views my own

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Owen Jones(@OwenJones84) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Yes, it is genocide.'

A searing text on Gaza by Amos Goldberg, esteemed Holocaust and genocide researcher at Hebrew University.

thepalestineproject.medium.com/yes-it-is-geno…

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RTÉ News(@rtenews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Students are demanding that Irish universities take a stand on Gaza, writes Education Correspondent Emma O Kelly rte.ie/b/1446061

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Lucy Collins(@lcollins232) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you Irish Times Culture and Martin Doyle for giving space to the Poetry as Commemoration project at UCD Library - we hope all those who participated keep writing! How poetry is helping us preserve our past - and question our assumptions of history irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

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ITV News(@itvnews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A British surgeon who has just returned from Gaza has spoken to ITV News' Martha Fairlie about the horrors he saw, the injured children he tried to save and moments 'he cannot take out his head’

itv.com/news/2024-04-2…

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Ciaran Tierney(@ciarantierney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'There is no South African that forgets Dunnes Stores and the name of Mary Manning, a 21-year old who refused to handle any products from South Africa'

- Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla, addresses Freedom Flotilla Coalition before they set sail for with humanitarian aid.

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation(@BrinkerhoffPoem) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'The confusion was only ever between two languages:
the language of the rich / the language of the poor.'

Rhianne Barreto performs Niall McDevitt's poem 'The Tower of Babylon' in our film poem series with The Irish Cultural Centre, produced by Tommy Creagh.

brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/the-towe…

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Democracy Now!(@democracynow) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri has just returned from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Palestinians are still uncovering more bodies, many with evidence of torture or summary execution. 'The three different mass graves are containing around 700 bodies,' he says.

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Dr Maeve O'Rourke(@maeveorourke) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trinity College Head of Medicine: “I can no longer stay silent about the catastrophe in Gaza”

trinitynews.ie/2024/02/colleg…

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IPSC(@ipsc48) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great letter in today's Irish Times. Completely right, the EU is complicit in apartheid Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people and the Irish government must act unilaterally to sanction that state.

Great letter in today's Irish Times. Completely right, the EU is complicit in apartheid Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people and the Irish government must act unilaterally to sanction that state. #GazaGenocide
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UCD Library(@UCDLibrary) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Cork poet, Theo Dorgan captures the excitement of match day Croke Park A selection of Theo's work has been preserved in the Irish Poetry Reading Archive for future generations UCD Library. Listen here: bit.ly/theodorgan_poe…

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ursula byrne(@ursulabyrne5) 's Twitter Profile Photo

National - Kite flying
Refaat Alareer's poem of a white kite flying close to heaven that descends on wounded Palestinians - a vision beyond genocide reminding us that the angel of love will arrive n we must do our part, however little. RIP youtu.be/zbN3GRjHFRg?si…

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UCD Library(@UCDLibrary) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We'd like to thank and acknowledge the poets who've recorded their work for preservation in the Irish Poetry Reading Archive UCD Library. With today's theme in mind, here's Bebe Ashley reading 'Tom Daley Dives for David Hockney': youtu.be/OpzF7h13UEg?si…

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PSC(@PSCupdates) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“I want to live long enough to see Netanyahu and the Israeli cabinet in The Hague”

John McDonnell MP highlights the UK government’s failure to do anything to stop violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank

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Double Down News(@DoubleDownNews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Holocaust Survivor Message to US Campus Protesters:

This survivor of the Holocaust is against Genocide in Gaza & conflating Jewishness with Zionism, which does nothing but increase antisemitism.

Your protests are so persistent, large and global that eventually the Western…

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Dr. Deepti Gurdasani(@dgurdasani1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Toronto Public Library has apparently removed Refaat's poem under pressure from zionists. Refaat was a poet who wrote about his own death - before the IDF murdered him. He'd want this poem to be shared to keep his hopes, and his spirit alive. Please share.

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