Paul O’Connell
@pmpoc
socialist | trade unionist | legal academic | foghlaimeoir Gaeilge | denouncing the abyss | ✊@This_is_Rise
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The ICJ is failing Palestine like it failed Bosnia. 1. What is the point of the @CIJ_ICJ? Despite the urgency, they are yet to issue their opinion on Israel's obligations towards the UN, including its humanitarian organisations, in Palestine.
As the ICJ delivers its Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, I still believe the Court should have quickly issued a short initial advisory opinion on humanitarian access to Gaza, then taken its time writing a more comprehensive opinion addressing other issues. It did not.
1. Notice how genocide-deniers/ Zionist propagandists are simply rehashing same claims we've heard since Jan. 2024, as if nothing has happened since then?
Genocide isn’t an opinion, it’s the worst crime against humanity.
March 2024, Judge Yusuf @CIJ_ICJ: "The alarm has now been sounded by the Court. All the indicators of genocidal activities are flashing red in Gaza" July 2025: UK politicians & pundits are finally "appalled" No, Keir, the public is sickened by your inaction & complicity
The appalling scenes in Gaza are unrelenting. The UK will pull every lever we have to get food and lifesaving support to Palestinians, and we will evacuate children who need urgent medical assistance. This humanitarian catastrophe must end.
October and November 2023, the UN: "GAZA HAS BECOME A GRAVEYARD FOR CHILDREN" July 2025: UK politicians and pundits are finally "appalled".
The appalling scenes in Gaza are unrelenting. The UK will pull every lever we have to get food and lifesaving support to Palestinians, and we will evacuate children who need urgent medical assistance. This humanitarian catastrophe must end.
The treatment of UCU staff by @DrJoGrady and the rest of @ucu senior management is a stain on the union - and @unitetheunion and @UniteSharon need to do a lot more to stand up for their members bylinetimes.com/2025/07/26/uni…
"@OCHA warns once again that conditions in Gaza are already catastrophic & deteriorating fast – with death, displacement & destruction.. as a result of ongoing Israeli military operations.. Life is being drained out of Gaza, as systems and services are on the verge of collapse"
Humanitarian aid office @UNOCHA continues to sound the alarm as the starvation crisis in #Gaza deepens. news.un.org/en/story/2025/…
⚡️⭕️ The freed Lebanese resistance fighter George Abdallah, after more than four decades behind bars in France, delivered a powerful message: “Unfortunately, millions of Arabs are watching Palestinian children die of hunger. This is a stain on our history.” Lebanon. 25th of…
friends still in the West Bank are saying settler violence escalated frighteningly this week — the Knesset decision to annex the territory, the high court decisions on Masafer Yatta, world leaders in another flurry of noticing Gaza etc etc all emboldened the state-backed terror
“The building of the party is not advanced one inch by repeating that the party must be built” - C.L.R. James
"We can find some rice again, and we are picking up where we left off, but with an exponentially hungrier population and in dire need of support. Donate to the North Campaign" chuffed.org/project/help-u…
In the last 3 days, nearly 40 people in Gaza died from starvation. chuffed.org/project/help-u…. The elderly, children, and the disabled or those with underlying health conditions are the most vulnerable. But now we are seeing perfectly healthy individuals, nothing else going on…
This should be the case in every country - globalise the intifada
Syros, July 22, 2025. 🇬🇷🇵🇸 The Greek people are not allowing the Israeli tourists arriving on the island to disembark, and the ship is forced to leave without letting the passengers off.
Genocide.
The barbarians of the century have destroyed Khan Yunis archive.ph/rvmJb
🚨We asked the UK's air force chief why he spies on Gaza for Israel. The RAF has sent more than 500 surveillance flights over Gaza since December 2023. This is how he responded👇
There is no war in Gaza - there’s heroic, unyielding resistance and there’s occupation and genocide
For the fourth day and we are starving.Our children are crying from hunger. Our bodies are thin and weak, like lifeless dolls.We are seventeen members of one family,barely surviving. Donations have stopped Please don't let us die in silence @Louis_Allday chuffed.org/project/135206…
Eventually, all Palestinian and babies will die under the israeli-enforced famine that the world is ignoring: we are fades #غزه_تموت_جوعاً #غزة_تُجوع x.com/Nonoos84/statu…
Your charity, your words of shock after the genocide, won’t make a difference. We will not accept your apology after the genocide. What has been done, has been done. I want you to look in the mirror, and ask: where was I when Gaza was going through a genocide?
⁉️ What is the UK’s role in the Gaza genocide?⁉️ ⚫️Join us for this ask me anything with @markcurtis30 @LauraPidcock & @jmcevoy_2 on Thursday 31st July at 6.30pm. 📋 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Gaza didn’t ask for armies from Turkey, its Arab neighbors, or this world. Though it deserved all of that .. and any nation could’ve earned eternal honor by offering it. Gaza only asked for one thing: Just food. And still, they failed. They couldn’t even deliver a piece of bread.
Only one donation in the last 16 days for this family. Please, please help to change that:
Oh world, we are dying of hunger. We only want bread — just bread. Help us! gofund.me/dfb4f473 @Louis_Allday @MohammedZyad8 @rebelsnrogues @