Michael Magee
@michaelmagee__
Novel: Close to Home @hamishh1931 & @fsgbooks (US) | Agent: @eleanorbirne
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.
'You should play fair, talk to me. What are my faults?' Kevin Rous, a Wrightbus nightshift worker from the Philippines, had his Cullybackey home targeted during anti-immigration unrest in Ballymena last night. His car was burnt out while his wife and two children were inside…
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:
It’s a wonderful morning to shoot 63 in Northern Ireland
We've been banned from advertising on the London Tube. How petty can political policing and interference get... After using the tube to advertise loads of times for gigs, records and our movie, all without issue. The below poster has been rejected because: "it is likely to…
Israeli has set fire to Taybeh — a 10,000-year-old village in Ramallah, Palestine. A place where Jesus once walked. Home to the world’s oldest living Christian community. And not a peep from Western mainstream media.
Bob Vylan was dropped by his agency, they cancelled his visa ahead of his US tour, the UK and US governments denounced him as an evil violent monster, the BBC apologized for airing his set. Why? Because he said death to the genocidal Israeli rape-army that is mass killing babies
From IRISH TIMES, 12 July 1984. The speech that Jim forgot he made
MEP Rima Hassan has refused to change her prison clothes and directly joined the anti-genocide voices in Paris upon her arrival. Hassan had written "Free Palestine" on the walls of her cell inside Israeli prisons and refused to sign the deportation papers after she was abducted.
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.
Grim scenes from Ballymena, a town that had exactly 0 people in receipt of asylum support in 2024. No "illegals" (not that any human should be seen that way); literally everyone was born there or was a legal migrant or refugee. (1/2)
FA has documented a pattern of Israeli attacks on areas into which they have previously instructed civilians in Gaza to evacuate. Our research confirms that the Israeli military carried out multiple attacks in areas towards which civilians had been directed, either on the same…
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: msf.org/dozens-palesti…
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 irishtimes.com/culture/books/…
West Belfast fighter Paddy McCorry defeated Israel's Shuki Farage tonight at Cage Warriors 189. McCrory draped himself in a Palestine flag and shouted 'Free Palestine' after his hand was raised.
To the 100s of journalists who follow me here: Masafer Yatta is being ethnically cleansed by the army, we’re organizing an urgent visit on the ground for international media, please write directly for the date and time
It’s not easy for me to write this, but my community Masafer Yatta will be destroyed unless more activists and journalists don’t urgently come and join us on the ground. Settlers are now in Khalet Al-Dabia village 24/7 after the army destroyed it.