Upcoming Events

National | Miscellaneous

no events match your query!

New Events

National

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

The Saker
A bird's eye view of the vineyard

offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

The Saker >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Will BBC Media Action, Auntie?s International, Pro-Censorship Charity, go Bust Now That Elon Musk Ha... Sun Feb 09, 2025 13:00 | Tony Edwards
One of the woke boondoggles USAID was funding was BBC Media Action, a pro-censorship lobby group. Now that Elon Musk has turned off the tap, will it go bust? asks ex-BBC science producer Tony Edwards?
The post Will BBC Media Action, Auntie?s International, Pro-Censorship Charity, go Bust Now That Elon Musk Has Turned off the USAID Tap? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour MP Sacked Over Racist, Sexist and Antisemitic Slurs in Leaked Messages Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Labour minister Andrew Gwynne has been sacked and suspended after leaked WhatsApp messages exposed racist, sexist and antisemitic slurs ? including a 'joke' about a constituent being mown down by a truck.
The post Labour MP Sacked Over Racist, Sexist and Antisemitic Slurs in Leaked Messages appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Inquiry is Actively Suppressing Scientific Evidence Sun Feb 09, 2025 09:00 | Dr Andrew Bamji
The Covid Inquiry is being led by the wrong experts (lawyers) who are asking the wrong questions of the wrong people. It's not only ignoring scientific evidence but actively suppressing it, says Dr Andrew Bamji.
The post The Covid Inquiry is Actively Suppressing Scientific Evidence appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link President Trump?s Energy and Climate Agenda: Beware of Overreach Sun Feb 09, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
President Trump made it clear by his flurry of executive orders that he prioritises reliable and affordable energy over climate alarmist ideology. Now he must resist the temptation to pick winners, says Tilak Doshi.
The post President Trump’s Energy and Climate Agenda: Beware of Overreach appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Feb 09, 2025 00:24 | Will Jones
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.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?119 Fri Feb 07, 2025 15:26 | en

offsite link Donald Trump plans to displace Palestinians from Gaza and build a riviera on the... Fri Feb 07, 2025 13:33 | en

offsite link Misinterpretations of the Evolution of the United States (2/2), by Thierry Meyss... Tue Feb 04, 2025 06:59 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?118 Sat Feb 01, 2025 12:57 | en

offsite link 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp Sat Feb 01, 2025 12:16 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Irish protestor arrested by Israeli police

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday August 07, 2002 17:34author by MG Report this post to the editors

Israeli police have arrested a 25-year-old Irish citizen during a peaceful protest against the Israeli occupation near the West bank city of Nablus. Salah Afifi, an architect from Ranelagh in Dublin, was one of 30 members of the International Solidarity Movement taking part in the protest on a road built solely for the use of Jewish settlers living on Palestinian land.

Mr Afifi was taken to a police station in the Jewish settlement of Ariel, according to Colm Breathnach, another Irish ISM member who is currently in Nablus. Mr Breathnach said he will probably be transferred to an Israeli prison and deported back to Ireland.

Mr Afifi was one of eight people arrested during the protest at the Huwarda junction just south of Nablus. His mother is Irish and his father Palestinian, but this was the 25-year-old’s first ever visit to Palestine, where he has relatives living in Ramallah.

Earlier today, the International Solidarity Movement joined a large crowd of local Palestinians who blocked the settler road in protest at the ongoing Israeli curfew of Palestinian towns and cities.

Israeli soldiers and police, accompanied by settlers, arrived on the scene shortly after the protest began and some minor scuffles ensued. The Israelis then physically attacked many protestors and one US citizen is believed to have been knocked unconscious.

The demonstrators eventually resorted to a sit-down protest in front of an Israeli jeep to prevent the removal of detainees and this is when Mr Afifi is believed to have been arrested.

The usual Israeli policy is to deport pro-Palestinian protestors to their home countries as soon as possible.

author by MGpublication date Thu Aug 08, 2002 14:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

As the author of this article, I fell I should clear up some matters...

Salah Afifi was born in Ireland and is an Irish citizen who holds an Irish passport. His mother is an Irish citizen and his father is an ethnic Palestinian who has been living in Ireland for longer than I have been alive...

Salah's visit to Palestine with the ISM was his first ever visit to the country, where he has relatives on his father's side...

To question his Irishness is, in my view, tantamount to racism...

PS: I have a mobile contact for Colm Breathnach, but would rather not post it here in case our pro-Israeli friends start harassing him

author by Pietro Ingraopublication date Thu Aug 08, 2002 12:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

You can probably get contact information for Com Breathnach from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, tel. 01-6770253.

author by Concernedpublication date Thu Aug 08, 2002 12:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If theres any more info from Colm will someone post it here please, Is there a way for anyone to make contact with him? if so please let us know

author by POCpublication date Thu Aug 08, 2002 11:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

God bless you, ? (above) , you're a gobshite.

author by Pietro Ingraopublication date Thu Aug 08, 2002 10:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Why shouldn't he be? More Irish than most of our world cup squad, to judge from the post above.

author by ?publication date Thu Aug 08, 2002 10:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

?

Number of comments per page
  
 
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy