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Why is Slovenia the only EU country to ban arms trade with Israel? The Slovenian government has banned the export, import and transit of military equipment to and from Israel. Other European countries have reduced but not stopped their arms sales.

The Slovenian government has banned the export, import and transit of military equipment to and from Israel. Other European countries have reduced but not stopped their arms sales.

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Denmark’s biggest supermarket Salling has introduced a system to highlight European products, making it easier for customers to avoid US goods.

However, you don't need to be Danish. There’s an app called “buy European” on the AppStore.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/buy-european/id6742723534

Liz Carolan: Posting photos of your children online just got a lot riskier Meta is trying to work out how it can use the billions, if not trillions, of photos and posts people have uploaded to Facebook and Instagram going back decades to train its AI

I’ve a piece in the paper about how our - your - my personal photos are feeding the AI machines - perhaps even without us posting them anywhere

Posting photos of your children online just got a lot riskier

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Another Gaza-bound aid ship stopped by Israeli forces in international waters Armed Israeli forces seized the aid boat in a dramatic international waters raid last night.

Israeli forces have intercepted another humanitarian aid ship in international waters, in what campaigners have called an “unlawful” and “violent” act against civilians attempting to deliver relief to Gaza
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All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

BBC says it is 'deeply alarmed' that its reporters are facing the threat of starvation in Gaza UN agencies and independent NGOs have warned that the population of Gaza is at the brink of famine

'deeply alarmed’ seems to be more than a litte under stated when your own employees are dying because of another governments deliberate policy of starvation! www.thejournal.ie/gaza-journal...

Death toll in Gaza rises to 17 since dawn <article data-history-node-id="426205" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-gaza-rises-17-dawn" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-gaza-rises-17-dawn" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Death toll in Gaza rises to 17 since dawn</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel has killed two Palestinians in southern Gaza and eight others in the centre of the enclave, Al Jazeera Arabic has reported citing medical sources.&nbsp;</p> <p>Amongst those killed were Palestinians seeking aid, bringing the total number of deaths since dawn to 17.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Death toll in Gaza rises to 17 since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-gaza-rises-17-dawn

In years to come, many may ask how the world watched on as the people of Gaza starved.

Mark O'Connell: Using ChatGPT to write an essay is a bit like using a fork lift to lift weights Just as you can’t get someone, or something, to work out for you, there is nobody and nothing that can think on your behalf

Mark O'Connell: Using ChatGPT to write an essay is a bit like using a fork lift to lift weights

Irish rents rise by 115% since 2010, more than four times EU average Eurostat report highlights rapid rise in cost of renting here since depths of financial crisis

Irish rents rise by 115% since 2010, more than four times EU average

Pierre Bourdieu: 'Imperialisms: The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal' (Polity Press, June 2025). bit.ly/3I0Dnud #sociology #soctheory #theorysky

Liz Carolan: I’m paying €757 to keep my child busy for 3.6 hours a day. Summer childcare maths doesn’t add up A patchwork of mostly privately run summer camps, supplemented in many cases by parents taking turns to mind each others’ kids in ad-hoc arrangements, are sure signs of failure at the macro level

Liz Carolan: I’m paying €757 to keep my child busy for 3.6 hours a day. Summer childcare maths doesn’t add up

Massive Pride march in Budapest in defiance of ban The local government's Freedom Day event ended without incidents, with no police intervention, and counter-demonstrators being kept away.

The local government's Freedom Day event ended without incidents, with no police intervention, and counter-demonstrators being kept away.

'Gergely Karácsony, the city’s left-wing mayor, has said he has been threatened with imprisonment for his organising of Pride' #Pride #Hungary #LGBTQ

The US Embassy has issued a warning to Irish students applying for visas, saying their social media will now form part of a "comprehensive vetting" process.

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A good summary of the state of the nation

The ‘pink washing’ has been exposed - pride requires courage and guess who doesn’t have it?

Honestly you couldn’t make up these headlines

Pentagon to deploy 700 Marines to Los Angeles, official says The U.S. military is set to temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles while additional National Guard troops arrive in the city, a U.S. official told Reuters on Monday.

Pentagon to deploy 700 Marines to Los Angeles, official says reut.rs/4jIjBR9

The Madleen aid ship with Greta Thunberg on board heading to Gaza is now surrounded by Israeli boats, says Freedom Flotilla Coalition member Thiago Avila: “We are being attacked.”

Govt moves to change Rent Pressure Zones system The Government is moving towards changing the current Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs) system ahead of a crunch Cabinet meeting on the matter next Tuesday.

All of the contemplated changes to rent controls are explicitly designed to encourage higher rents.

Given the record levels of homelessness, and the cost of living crisis, it is scarcely believable that this is government policy, but it is.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/06...

An aid ship with 12 activists on board, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, has reached the Egyptian coast and is nearing the besieged Palestinian territory, organisers said on Saturday.
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Anyone happen to recognise the (blurry!) logo on the hi viz? Or the person?

Near the Windy Arbour Luas stop

Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies University will no longer facilitate Erasmus+ exchange agreements with Israeli colleges

Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

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Macron says Europe must ‘harden’ stance on Israel unless crisis in Gaza improves French president said recognition of Palestinian state is “moral duty” and “political necessity.”

French President Emmanuel Macron said today that Europe’s “collective position” on Israel must “harden” unless the humanitarian crisis in Gaza improves.

Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital has just received the charred remains of her 7 children:

1- Yahya Hamdi Al-Najjar
2- Rakan Hamdi Al-Najjar
3- Ruslan Hamdi Al-Najjar
4- Jubran Hamdi Al-Najjar
5- Hawaa Hamdi Al-Najjar
6- Rivan Hamdi Al-Najjar
7- Sydeen Hamdi Al-Najjar

List of countries which brought goods and services from Israel in 2024

What on earth are we buying? That all needs to stop … #boycott #speirgorm #stopthegenocide