Engineer with passion for safety management and international current affairs. Very unwoke and always prioritises the welfare of humans over all alternatives.
Dublin, Ireland
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Tony Allwright retweeted
Guess where these mansions are.
Dubai?
Beverly Hills?
The French Riviera?
Nope.
The "Occupied West Bank".
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Tony Allwright retweeted
Bacik does not speak for Ireland
Ivana Bacik says Irish people do not want Donald Trump here. She says protests will show the real mood. She says a meeting at the Áras is not a welcome.
That is Labour talk. It is not the country.
Trump is the President of the United States. He is coming for two days. He will see President Connolly, meet Micheál Martin, then go to Doonbeg for the Irish Open. America is Ireland’s biggest investor and a huge source of jobs. Snubbing that for a soundbite is politics, not sense.
Bacik talks as if she has a mandate from the public. She does not. She leads a small party. She treats a noisy protest as the national will. A crowd with banners is not “the Irish people.”
In Clare the picture is simpler. Trump’s Doonbeg resort employs hundreds. It puts about €11 million a year into the local economy. Profits are up. The Irish Open puts the west coast on television worldwide. People there talk about work, visitors and money in the town. That is more real than a Dublin interview.
Trump will be in and out fast, under heavy security. Fine. Host him, keep the US link, take the tourism. Bacik can dislike him. She should stop pretending her dislike is Ireland’s verdict.
"Safe Genocide Day", more like.
Abortion is genocide.
Abortion singles out and slaughters, in their thousands, and deliberately, a particular category of human beings who are innocent and defenceless.
It is done with full, premeditated intent.
The very definition of genocide. – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
So the Red Cross have decided to turn themselves into pro-mass-Islamic-invasion bad guys.
¡Viva España!
For defending their country.
+ The @RedCross
+ @amnesty
+ Medecins @MSF_france Sans Frontières
+@RNLI
+@UNRWA
How many more "charities" and NGOs have turned rogue? – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
Shouting "climate change" at every opportunity is a manifestation of Tourettes Syndrome. – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
I’ve spent many weeks doing fieldwork in Tibet, sitting above these enormous, deeply incised Himalayan river systems and seeing firsthand just how geologically active this landscape is.
So spare me the climate-change grift every time a natural disaster strikes.
Catastrophic glacial outburst floods are not new. The 1981 Zhangzangbo GLOF released ~20 million m³ of water and debris into Nepal, with estimated peak discharge approaching 16,000 m³/s. The Himalayas experienced enormous GLOFs long before today's atmospheric CO₂ concentrations.
If it happened naturally in the past, we should expect it to happen naturally again in the future—regardless of atmospheric CO₂.
Turning a horrific loss of life into an immediate climate-change narrative without demonstrating that CO₂ caused this particular event isn't attribution. It's opportunism.
And the people exploiting tragedy to do it are grifters.
Tony Allwright retweeted
For a country that is struggling with a housing and cost of living crisis, a crumbling, union dominated, government run health service, and the existential threat of thousands of unvetted migrants—Ireland sure does focus its hatred on the Jews.
Sport, which should bring rivals together and celebrate athletic achievement, is, instead, often used as a way to attack Israel and the Jews.
As they say in Ireland— sure you have little to be doing with your time. Good thing nobody watches Ultimate Frisbee anyway!
#antisemitism #Ireland #UltimateFrisbee
Tony Allwright retweeted
The world is realising they've been had.
The genolie is fading, along with your income!!
Tony Allwright retweeted
This billboard wasn't allowed in public, so please don't look at it or retweet it. Thanks dutchbarn.com
A testament to those people, drawn from the great and the good, who, suffused with the extreme racism that is #DEI, protected and continue to protect the late mega-fantasist Jason Arday, RIP. – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
The extent of Jason Arday's lies:
* Visiting professor at University of Glasgow
* Visiting professor at Ohio State University
* Honorary professor at Durham University
* Visiting professor at Nelson Mandela University
* Published book with Palgrave Macmillan (Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse)
* Master’s degree from Birkbeck, University of London
* Raised £5.5 mil for charity
* WaterAid work installing water points abroad
* Pigs head delivered to family home
* Appeared in BBC’s Seven Up series
* Non-verbal/mute until age 11
* Illiterate until ~18
* Extreme endurance feats for charity (30 marathons in 35 days, 600 miles in 6 days)
* Extensive plagiarism in PhD thesis and papers
* Other research issues (impossible data, mismatched quotes, etc.)
* Being in a coma with Locked-in syndrome
* Brain tumour
* Professional snooker player
* Pro footballer
Key paragraph:
"The PLO appeared in 1964 and directed its liberation project toward the territory where the Jewish state already existed, while disclaiming sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza." – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
The Missing 19 Years
The strangest part of the “Israel prevented a Palestinian state” argument is that it comes with a 19-year loading screen nobody wants to discuss.
From 1948 to 1967, Egypt controlled Gaza. Jordan controlled the West Bank and East Jerusalem, formally annexing the West Bank in 1950.
Israel controlled neither territory.
No Israeli settlements.
No Israeli checkpoints.
No Israeli military administration.
These were the territories we are now told were desperately waiting to become the Palestinian state Israel refused to allow.
Except Israel was not there.
And no Palestinian state emerged.
There was an attempt to create an All-Palestine Government in Gaza in 1948, under Egyptian auspices. It was moved to Cairo within months and never became an independent sovereign state. Jordan went in the opposite direction, annexing the West Bank and extending Jordanian citizenship to its Palestinian population.
That history matters because it reveals something much more complicated than the modern story of “Palestinians wanted a state and Israel prevented them from having one.”
For 19 years, Arab governments controlled the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. Creating an independent Palestinian state in those territories somehow never became the great moral emergency we are told it always was.
Then something even more revealing happened.
The Palestine Liberation Organization was founded in 1964. Not 1967. 1964.
Three years before Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza.
And the original Palestinian National Charter did something rather extraordinary. It declared the establishment of Israel null and void while explicitly disclaiming PLO territorial sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza, which were still controlled by Jordan and Egypt.
The organization created to “liberate Palestine” was founded while Israel did not control the West Bank or Gaza, and its charter was aimed at undoing Israel while specifically not claiming sovereignty over those territories.
That is a fairly inconvenient detail if your entire understanding of the conflict begins with “occupation” in 1967.
Apparently the liberation problem was not primarily that Palestinians lacked sovereignty in the West Bank and Gaza.
The problem was that Jews had sovereignty next door.
Then came 1967.
Israel survived another war and took control of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. Suddenly the territories that had spent 19 years under Arab rule without becoming an independent Palestinian state became the center of an international crusade for Palestinian self-determination.
Mazel Tov! Very moving. Remarkable timing.
There had been no comparable international movement demanding that Egypt “Free Gaza” or that Jordan surrender the West Bank for an independent Palestinian state. Once Jews controlled those territories, however, Palestinian sovereignty acquired an urgency it somehow never possessed under Arab rule.
Funny how that works.
This does not mean Palestinian identity did not exist. It means the neat historical story we are constantly sold is backwards.
The conflict was never simply about Palestinians wanting sovereignty and Israel refusing to give it to them.
For much of the Arab world and the Palestinian national movement, the struggle was also about preventing or reversing Jewish sovereignty.
That distinction changes the entire conversation.
Because “Palestinians should have a state” and “Jews should not have a state” are not the same proposition.
The first is an argument about Palestinian self-determination.
The second is an argument against Jewish self-determination.
And for decades, the two have been conveniently packaged together as though nobody should notice the difference.
Pretending the Arab world spent 1948 to 1967 patiently waiting to construct Palestine until Israel arrived and ruined everything is not history.
It is fan fiction with footnotes.
Jordan had the West Bank. No independent Palestinian state.
Egypt had Gaza. No independent Palestinian state.
The PLO appeared in 1964 and directed its liberation project toward the territory where the Jewish state already existed, while disclaiming sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza.
Then Israel took those territories in 1967, and suddenly the world discovered an almost theological devotion to Palestinian sovereignty there.
Baruch Hashem for timing.
Because geography was never the entire issue.
Jewish sovereignty was.
And somehow, after 3,000 years of Jewish history, exile, return, prayer, archaeology, language, memory, and blood, the Jewish people are still expected to stand before the world and justify why we are entitled to exist as a sovereign people in our ancestral homeland.
No.
We are not guests in our own story.
We are not squatters in our ancestral home.
And we are not going to apologize because Palestinian statehood became infinitely more urgent to the world once it could be wielded against Jewish statehood.
Tony Allwright retweeted
STATEMENT: The Committee for Academic Freedom (CAF) was troubled to see academics smeared from the stage at last night’s vigil for Jason Arday in Trafalgar Square.
As reported by several national media outlets, Diane Abbott MP claimed that “other professors” had waged a three-year “vicious campaign” against Arday because they “just didn’t believe that a black man should be a Cambridge professor”.
That is a serious, categorical imputation of racist motive, and those familiar with the controversy could reasonably have understood Abbott’s remarks as referring to a small, identifiable group of academics known to have raised concerns about Arday’s work.
Unfortunate though it is to revisit those events at such a desperately sad moment, we feel obliged to restate what the factual record — much of it established publicly long before Abbott’s remarks — shows about one of those academics whom CAF is supporting.
David Harris, Professor Emeritus at Plymouth Marjon University, first raised concerns about Arday’s doctoral thesis and subsequent peer-reviewed publications in May 2023. A sociologist with a longstanding interest in how ideas from the critical theory tradition are used in empirical educational research, Harris encountered Arday’s work amid the publicity surrounding his appointment as Professor of Sociology of Education at Cambridge two months earlier.
Harris privately raised concerns with Arday about what he called “puzzling similarities” in reported data, repeated passages and possible failures of attribution. His covering email concluded simply: “I would welcome any response.”
This was not, in other words, a “vicious campaign”, but an emeritus professor engaging closely with another scholar’s published work, identifying apparent problems and asking that they be examined. Several of Harris’s concerns subsequently resulted in corrections to Arday’s published work.
When it emerged last month that Arday had reported Harris to the police for harassment, CAF warned of the chilling effect of invoking the law against awkward scholarly criticism, exposing academics who test published claims or raise questions about research integrity to allegations of criminal wrongdoing and prolonged police investigation.
That same chilling effect arises when Harris’s scholarly scrutiny is retrospectively recast by a senior parliamentarian as racial animus before a large public gathering and amplified through the media.
The scholarly community has traditionally governed its own standards, and its ability to continue doing so depends upon academics being free to ask difficult questions about one another’s work, even where those questions may prove embarrassing or reputationally damaging. Without that freedom, the processes through which scholarship corrects itself and academic standards are maintained cannot properly function.
In those circumstances, CAF will be writing to Ms Abbott asking her to withdraw or correct her remarks and making clear the seriousness with which we regard them. Should those remarks cause him serious professional or reputational harm, including any loss of academic title, status or institutional privileges, we will ensure that he receives appropriate specialist advice on any legal remedies that may be available to him.
No, @RTEOne, no Irish heritage whatsoever.
100% Somali heritage.
What is she even doing in the Irish @RoseofTralee_ competition (other than as, perhaps, a spectator? – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
Dublin Rose Suad Mooge celebrates her Irish and Somali heritage with a gorgeous fusion of dance to Olivia Dean’s Baby Steps. 🌹
#RoseOfTralee
More countries should follow Denmark's lead and have the courage to publish such statistics.
+ UK immigrants to Denmark CONTRIBUTE $24,000 per person per year.
Somali immigrants to Denmark nationals SUBTRACT $28,000 per person per year.
"Diversity is our weakness." – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
