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Irene S

@oldfunkateers.bsky.social
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British ex-Labour crank, #CorbynIsRight, pacifist, Methodist preacher, avid listener to jazz, blues, PFunk, soul, roots reggae, Cuban, Zappa, Beefheart, above all, MILES! Free Palestine!🍉

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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Oh sure, you wouldn’t pick sides. Your rant is so impartial. And what flag? And talking of the IRA, did Britain bomb Ireland in response to the IRA’s attacks on its mainland? No it didn’t. Now, try actually looking at B’Tselem’s website.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
And imagine if the hostages, many held not in tunnels but in Gazan homes, had not been killed in Israel’s vicious bombardment. And imagine if the Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of the last deal, weren’t being rearrested.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Oh you want to play that game, do you? OK imagine if Palestinians hadn’t been suffering many years of oppression from apartheid Israel. You don’t know about that? Let Israeli Human Rights organisation educate you. Try actually looking through their archive. www.btselem.org/about_btselem
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
So do I. Sadly, Netanyahu doesn’t, as most Israelis know.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The tide is turning. The West’s leaders and media are now belatedly expressing their horror at Israel’s brutality, which vastly overshadows Hamas’s. BTW there is no evidence of widespread rape on 7/10/23z
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Your heart has not been affected by the many decades of Israel’s unjust oppression of Palestinians? Maybe you don’t know. Well, now you can’t say no-one told you. www.btselem.org/about_btselem
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I’m afraid I can’t do that any more than you can. Sadly, Netanyahu is not interested in bringing the hostages home, as most Israelis know. He wants to prolong the genocide on the Palestinians until there are none left. It’s called ethnic cleansing. Why don’t you know this?
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Erm … I’m convinced already!
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Is Twitter down? Just been over for a quick look and thought my broadband was playing up.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
No evidence that Hamas raped anyone. Israel’s Chief Prosecutor couldn’t find a single complaint of rape or sexual abuse arising from Oct 7. Next you’ll be saying they beheaded babies and baked them in ovens!
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Never was there a more striking image of a man who has lost his soul than the expressionless stare of Marco Rubio standing alongside the gurning self-satisfied Bibi Netanyahu this weekend.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Victoria Derbyshire in the last hour has posted it here, much later than on X. bsky.app/profile/vicd...
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Victoria Coates is President Trump’s former deputy national security advisor, now at the US Heritage Foundation think tank. I asked her *how* President Trump wld go about getting 2m Palestinians out of Gaza
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Then I can’t help you because I couldn’t find anything like it on BlueSky. That’s my point.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Bibi’s own parliament know what he’s up to - deliberately sabotaging the peace deal. www.facebook.com/share/v/18cj...
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Israeli Knesset know Netanyahu is deliberately sabotaging the deal. www.facebook.com/share/v/18cj...
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
What we want to know is, if they refuse to leave Gaza, what would be the mechanism of forcing them out? Dare I say “cattle trains”?
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Yes it was heartening. Here is a clip of an interview with one of Trump’s people. x.com/bbcnewsnight...
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Here you go! x.com/bbcnewsnight...
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
But other than my post, I see little mention of it here, unlike X/Twitter. I hate that cesspit but I do find more news on it. BlueSky will only be as good as we make it.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I would have thought that should be reason to celebrate, after 15 months of pro-Israel BBC & MSM bias.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Victoria Derbyshire on BBC Newsnight last night actually features a Palestinian playwright talking about his parents’ life in Gaza, for once the BBC is not biased towards Israel, and what do I find on BlueSky? S i l e n c e ….
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Then let us meet in solidarity.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
2/ And here in the UK we don’t have any reason to feel superior either. It has happened in our name also. F**k the Special Relationship! Shameful beyond words!
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
But you did collectively. You could have insisted on a good candidate prepared to stand up to the Israel Lobby. But the choice amounted to “Dumb and Dumber”. I don’t enjoy being hard on you but you did mostly ALL turn your face away & walk on the other side of the most depraved genocide. 1/
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We didn’t trade anything for anything. We are not American voters. Sorry - didn’t we say? We were relying on you and you blew it.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Listen, mate! That silly old man didn’t have the humility to make way for a younger candidate until it was too late. You Dems had an open goal and you blew it. The orange convicted felon psycho in the White House is on you. Well done!
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So “Genocide Joe” was really “AIPAC have my balls in a vice Joe”. Not so catchy though.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Agreed but really he should be in a police cell and having his computers and smartphone examined. Non-mainstream journalists have suffered that for far less.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
And you. See? Nice nice nice BlueSky.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If you don’t even know what he said why express an opinion? Here’s a little taster. There’s more but hey it’s only little brown kids he’s talking about, nothing to see, move on. But to me and many others he has crossed the line.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
But thanks for the advice on whom I should listen to. I’ve filed it away.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
What I find hard to forgive in OJ’s past was not incitement to violence, was not illegal, just something I and others on the Left found problematic to us. What Dan said in his X post crossed the line into hate speech & if you think that’s just another post from a shit hack there’s no point talking.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
No contest. The man who said this & worse in his depraved X post should now be behind bars. If OJ had said what Dan said but about Israeli civilians he would have had the dawn raid by now & his feet rightfully wouldn’t have touched the ground. Meanwhile BlueSky puts it down to 2 squabbling hacks.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
OJ is absolutely right. Dan’s X post and his follow-up comments were depraved. If OJ had said the same stuff but about ordinary Israelis he’d have had the dawn raid by now and his feet wouldn’t touch the ground.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
That there is no widespread outrage on BlueSky about what Hodges said suggests to me it’s not the brave new beginning we thought it was. There’s lots in OJ’s past I find hard to forgive but he’s 100% right on Dan Hodges and on Palestine in general. I know where to come for nice cat pics though.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
What Dan Hodges has said about Palestinians, including children, is utterly depraved. If he said these things about Israelis, his career would immediately end. So why not when it's about Palestinians? New video 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPql...
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
OMG! Just popped over to X. Bigots everywhere! Now feel like I need a scalding hot shower!
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Only when it’s dark enough can you see the stars”. Dr Martin Luther King Jr 3rd April 1968
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
How much longer is the world going to turn a blind eye?
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I’m thinking more about the response to my own posts. I’ve noticed that leftie comrades who came over from X are seldom here so I wonder if they find the same.
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Exactly!
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Irene S @oldfunkateers.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
BlueSky seems to have developed into a lacklustre response to the toxicity of X. Or is it just me who finds that?
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News Feed @news-feed.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
@MiddleEastEye: “So, when all is said and done, will this Israeli madness actually turn out to have been the equal of that which brought down Hitler’s Germany, as historian Moshe Zimmerman suggested?” ✍️ Opinion by David Hirst
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Main link in OG tweet
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