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David Mac Redmond
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Warning: Graphic accounts of sexual abuse.

Reports of this kind of abuse in Israeli detention have been made for years but the scale here seems to be on a different level.
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🚨The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says it has collected new testimonies from recently released captives and documented systematic sexual torture of Palestinian detainees, including rape, forced stripping, and filming, describing it as part of Israel’s broader campaign to destroy human....
🚨The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says it has collected new testimonies from recently released captives and documented systematic sexual torture of Palestinian detainees, including rape, forced stripping, and filming, describing it as part of Israel’s broader campaign to destroy human dignity in Gaza. Among the cases is N.A., a 42-year-old mother from northern Gaza, who told PCHR she was raped four times by Israeli soldiers and subjected to repeated torture and humiliation in detention after she was detained while passing through an Israeli checkpoint set up in northern Gaza in November 2024. 📌 Her testimony in full: “At dawn I heard the soldiers shouting, saying that morning prayers were forbidden, and I think it was the fourth day after my arrest from Gaza. The soldiers moved me to a place I didn’t know because my eyes were blindfolded, and they ordered me to take off my clothes. I did so. They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to the end of the bed, and pulled my legs apart forcefully. I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head while I was blindfolded. I felt the man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera—so I believe they were filming me. The rape lasted about 10 minutes. After that, they left me for an hour in the same position, with my hands cuffed to the bed with metal handcuffs, my face on the bed, my feet on the floor, and I was completely naked. Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back. Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back. I cannot describe what I felt; I wished for death every moment. After they raped me, I was left alone in the same room, hands still cuffed to the bed and without clothes for many hours. I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing. Later, I was raped again vaginally. I screamed, but they beat me whenever I tried to resist. After more than an hour, I’m not sure about the time, a masked soldier entered, removed my blindfold, lifted his face covering; he had white skin and was tall. He asked if I spoke English; I said no. He said he was Russian and ordered me to masturbate his penis. I refused, and he hit me in the face after raping me. That day I was raped twice. I was left naked the whole day in the room where I spent three days. On the first day I was raped twice; on the second day I was raped twice; on the third day I remained without clothes while they looked at me through the door slit and filmed me. One soldier said they would post my photos on social media. While I was in the room, my period started; then they told me to put on clothes and transferred me to another room.” Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: November 10, 2025. PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention Against Released Palestinian Detainees
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
screen grab of Sun Sport artilce about IOC ban for trans women including a picture of Cisgender Boxer Imame Khelife
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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This is probably the only thing you need to read about the BBC crisis.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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This is the march the Polish president chose to grace with his presence today.
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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My interview with UNRWA's John Whyte about Israeli efforts to stifle aid delivery to Gaza. jrnl.ie/6866735
UNRWA's Irish deputy director on how the Israeli ban continues to hinder aid delivery in Gaza
There are still 12,000 UNRWA workers operating in Gaza, but they’ve been cut off from their colleagues on the outside.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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My interview with UNRWA's John Whyte about Israeli efforts to stifle aid delivery to Gaza. jrnl.ie/6866735
UNRWA's Irish deputy director on how the Israeli ban continues to hinder aid delivery in Gaza
There are still 12,000 UNRWA workers operating in Gaza, but they’ve been cut off from their colleagues on the outside.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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It shouldn't need to be explained to anyone, so soon after the Soldier F verdict, why Irish people might not want to be socially obliged to donate to a charity committed to uncritically commemorating all British wars, including Iraq and Northern Ireland, and financially supporting their veterans.
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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I could be wrong but I'm not sure a TD has used the phrase "Ireland is full" before today.
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"Ireland is Full," says Independent Ireland's Michael Collins regarding #RTETwips debate on migration.

You can catch the rebroadcast of #RTÉTwip on RTÉ One, at 11:05pm and at 3pm and 6:30pm on the RTE News Channel.

#Migration
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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"Ireland is Full," says Independent Ireland's Michael Collins regarding #RTETwips debate on migration.

You can catch the rebroadcast of #RTÉTwip on RTÉ One, at 11:05pm and at 3pm and 6:30pm on the RTE News Channel.

#Migration
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Two far-right extremists planned to target mosques and asylum seeker centres, court heard today.

Ireland is entering new territory.
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Right-wing extremist group planned to 'target IPAS centres, mosques and hotels', court hears
Karolis Peckauskas and Garrett Pollock appeared in court charged with possession of explosives after being arrested during an antiterrorism operation.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Two far-right extremists planned to target mosques and asylum seeker centres, court heard today.

Ireland is entering new territory.
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Right-wing extremist group planned to 'target IPAS centres, mosques and hotels', court hears
Karolis Peckauskas and Garrett Pollock appeared in court charged with possession of explosives after being arrested during an antiterrorism operation.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Tánaiste Simon Harris has said it was a “dog whistle” for those in the Social Democrats to compare him to Nigel Farage.

He said other political parties are calling him names 'for stating a fact, in my view, that migration has risen at too high a rate'. jrnl.ie/6866587
Harris says it is a ‘dog whistle’ to compare him to Nigel Farage
Social Democrats TDs have accused Harris’s comments as coming straight out of ‘Farage playbook’.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The Democratic state assembly member came from relative obscurity and made a positive impression on New Yorkers with deft use of social media and a ground game that grew in strength throughout his campaign. And he won without the support of the upper echelons of his own party. jrnl.ie/6865185
Mamdani ran a campaign that appealed to average New Yorkers and terrified the city's elite
Mamdani owes a lot to his social media team, who managed to create videos that regularly went viral.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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The Democratic state assembly member came from relative obscurity and made a positive impression on New Yorkers with deft use of social media and a ground game that grew in strength throughout his campaign. And he won without the support of the upper echelons of his own party. jrnl.ie/6865185
Mamdani ran a campaign that appealed to average New Yorkers and terrified the city's elite
Mamdani owes a lot to his social media team, who managed to create videos that regularly went viral.
jrnl.ie
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Polls have opened opened in New York City's mayoral election, in which Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani is forecast to win what would be a seismic victory at the end of a campaign that has seen him come under relentless and often racist or Islamophobic rhetorical attacks.

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Trump says Jewish people voting for Mamdani are 'stupid' as polls open in New York
Many of the rhetorical attacks against Mamdani have sought to characterise him as an Islamic extremist and antisemite.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Such a good summary of this grotesque phenomenon.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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You can see when racists jump to conclusions and spread lies immediately after violent incidents that they really WANT there to be terrorist attacks.

Nobody wants immigrants to commit crimes more than the far right. They yearn for it.
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LBC caller describes her husband’s ‘grin’ after train stabbing
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November 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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After fire at asylum centre in Drogheda, online fringe groups seek to rewrite what happened jrnl.ie/6863661
After fire at asylum centre in Drogheda, online fringe groups seek to rewrite what happened
Conspiracy theories alleged the government, or Antifa, were behind the blaze.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Tried my best to sum up the NYC mayoral election for an Irish audience.

The extent to which Mamdani's opponents have indulged in outright, hideous bigotry in this campaign has been something to see.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Does Trump not know Cheney is dead or what?

So far today, he's used Truth Social to call Mamdani a "jew hater" and comment on the ratings of an MSNBC show...
November 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Ivan Yates has been axed from a podcast he co-presented with Matt Cooper after it was revealed today he was involved with Fianna Fáil's presidential election campaign.

Cooper said in a statement he was unaware of this and believes it should have been disclosed to him jrnl.ie/6862164
Ivan Yates axed from podcast with Matt Cooper over revelations he coached Jim Gavin
Cooper and Yates began podcast Path to Power together in December 2023 as co-hosts.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM