Ireland’s leading retail magazine ‘Retail Times’ has announced its regret in allowing a right to reply to the Israeli Ambassador, Boaz Modai, to an article by Trócaire (an Irish-based international charity) about boycotting goods from illegal Israeli settlements. While Trócaire doesn’t endorse complete Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions it does make the feature’s readers aware that under European and International law the goods they find in their shops are not … Read More
Orange Kulture.
As the 12th of July approaches this year’s bonfires are being plastered with Anna Lo posters. The Orange Order marching season (and accompanying bonfires) is never a time for love and understanding but this year’s novelty ‘Guy Fawkes’ figure is the northern MLA who received such abuse it prompted her family to ask her to leave her home of 40 years. She admitted she doesn’t feel safe and will leave politics in … Read More
American Child Severely Beaten By Israeli Soldiers.
The 15 year old American cousin of Mohammed Abu Khdeir was taken by Israeli soldiers and severely beaten. Tariq Khdeir survived, unlike his cousin who was tortured then burned alive by his captors. The video above shows some of the beating plus an interview with his family given to the Telegraph. The Telegraph reports: The boy, Tariq Abu Khdeir, is an American citizen, Tariq’s father said he witnessed his son’s arrest and … Read More
Little Girl Dyes Her Hair So Gardaí Don’t Take Her Again.
The Children’s Ombudsman Emily Logan has published a report 9 months after two Roma children were taken by Garda after ethnic profiling. The Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald and the Taoiseach Enda Kenny both apologised today, which will stick in the craw of all the Fine Gael supporters who were cheering on what they hoped was a crackdown on Roma people. While Fine Gael councillors and prospective TDs publish anti-Traveller … Read More
Missing: Presumed Kidnapped By Australia.
153 Tamil asylum seekers and an unknown number of Indonesians aboard two boats have lost civilian communication for over 24 hours and are believed to have been taken by Australian forces. In a bizarre statement to press, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison refused to acknowledge or deny the boats’ capture or the existence of the refugees: More here on the case of the missing asylum seekers. Morrison is a fairly pernicious type, … Read More
#rabbleReels: Incident at Oglala.
On June 26, 1975, two FBI agents entered the Jumping Bull Ranch. A shootout left them both dead. Leonard Peltier won’t qualify for a parole hearing until 2024. He is presumed innocent. The controversial miscarriage of justice has had repercussions right up to Presidential level. When Bill Clinton decided not to give a pardon to Peltier but instead pardoned the fugitive billionare racketeer Mark Rich, Hillary Clinton’s supporter David Geffen shifted his … Read More
It’s What You Do In An Election.
A few highlights from the election campaigns so far. What moments will stick in your memory? Also download I Am Destroyer’s epic centre spread from rabble #8 and keep the shnakes at bay. 1. Hard to Trump This One. Michael Noonan, minister for scaldy heads, prostrated himself in a puddle at Shannon Airport for the comfort of Donald Bigot Birther Trump. Trump arrived to have his arse licked by … Read More
Who Works Here Belongs Here
The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland has been kicking against the pricks for ten years now. Rashers Tierney sat down for a chat to see how the battle for inclusivity is progressing in the land of a thousand welcomes. rabble has collected anecdotal accounts of the rise of workplace bullying during the recession. Is the hidden sector of Domestic Work an area that is particularly open to bullying and abusive behavior … Read More
Palestine’s Thin Bedouin Line.
In small corrugated-iron huts, amidst their camels and goats, surrounded by violent settlements in the desert 5,000 Bedouin are making a defining stand against Israel’s colonisation of the West Bank.