Tomás Ó Flatharta

Thanks to Duncan Chapel for the post below, and to Gregor Kerr for drawing our attention to the latest reactionary political message posted by the former Irish MEP’s Mick Wallace and Clare Daly

Thanks also to Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres for a much better assessment of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei :

Respect to the Ayatollah: Mick Wallace and the Logic of Campism

On Sunday evening, while watching Torino v Lazio, a former left MEP posted his solidarity with the Supreme Leader of a state that had just killed seven thousand of its own citizens.

This is what campism looks like when it stops pretending. Mick Wallace, until 2024 an Irish MEP from the United European Left, posted the following to Facebook on the evening of 2 March 2026, apparently from a football stadium in Turin:

“Respect to Iran. Respect to Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Shame on the Political Class + Media who refuse to call out the lawless Terrorism of Western Imperialism + Zionism.” The hashtag was #TorinoLazio. Let us be precise about what has been said here. Not “oppose the bombing.” Not “solidarity with the Iranian people.”

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