Ken M SweeneyDec 23
As an Irishman, and given our long history of hunger strike as an act of defiance against a British regime hell bent on allowing its own citizens to starve to death for a foreign power, I find the lack of coverage by the media to be utterly abhorrent. 🧵 #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine #UKGenocide #FreePalestine #FuckIsreal #Ireland
Show threadKen M SweeneyDec 23
Watching people on hunger strike in British prisons in 2025 is not abstract. We know this road. Hunger strike is not “protest theatre” — it is what happens when a state closes every other door and waits for bodies to fail. Silence is complicity. 2)
#HungerStrike #Ireland #UK
Show threadKen M SweeneyDec 23
Right now, multiple prisoners linked to Palestine Action are on prolonged hunger strike in UK prisons. Many are on remand — not convicted. Some have gone over 40–50 days without food. Several have been hospitalised. This is not normal. This is deliberate. 3)
#HumanRights
Show threadKen M Sweeney
Name them. Count the days.
Qesser Zuhrah — ~50+ days
Amu Gib — ~50+ days
Kamran Ahmed — ~40+ days
Teuta Hoxha — ~40+ days
Heba Muraisi — ~40+ days
These are people, not case numbers. The state knows their condition. It is choosing to wait. 4)
#NameThem
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Show threadKen M SweeneyDec 23
Irish history teaches us exactly how this ends if left unchallenged:
Thomas Ashe.
Terence MacSwiney.
Michael Gaughan.
Frank Stagg.
British governments speak of “procedure” while prisoners starve. Then they mourn “tragedy” they could have prevented. 5)
#IrishHistory
Show threadKen M SweeneyDec 23
The media response has been shameful. If this were Russia, Iran or China, it would lead every bulletin. Because it’s Britain, coverage is fragmented, sanitised, and buried. Hunger strikes expose the lie that “liberal democracies” don’t use bodies as leverage. 6)
#mediaFailure
Show threadKen M SweeneyDec 23
A state that allows people in its custody to starve — especially those not convicted — is not neutral. It is exercising power through neglect. That is a political choice, made in full knowledge of the medical consequences.
Ireland knows this tactic. We have buried its victims. 7)
#NeverAgain
Show threadKen M SweeneyDec 23
Hunger strikes only work when people refuse to look away.
Share their names.
Count the days.
Force coverage.
Ask why the British government will not intervene before someone dies.
History is watching — even if the media isn’t. 10)
#HungerStrike #Solidarity #PalestineAction
Show threadMark LynchDec 23
@TheComfortableSpotPodcast the British establishment’s capacity for wilful ignorance of its own history and the consequences thereof knows no bounds
Show threadEliza MBDec 23

@mark_f_lynch @TheComfortableSpotPodcast
Starmer is visiting China in the new year. No doubt he will claim to have raised the issue of human rights.
What will the Chinese response be?

A mirror or will they mention the pot and the kettle?