Darragh O'Shea

One thing on the pro-Palestine marches. If you accept they directly intimidate the Jewish community (which they do) then you must also acknowledge the Unite the Kingdom rallies have precisely the same effect on Muslim and other minority communities. We ban both, or neither.

There are very few Jews in Ireland. Because Ireland didnt take in many Jews during the war. In fact - Ireland took in more Nazis *after* the war than they took in Jewish refugees at the outset of war. Just saying.

Now that we are on the topic of the Irish media class and their approach to Jewish issues, it is important to bear in mind that they engage in active censorship in this regard. Particularly with respect to antisemitism in Ireland. In a wonderful article for Haaretz (forgive me, you know things are bad if Haaretz is acknowledging a problem), Irish journalist Paul Kearns writes how Irish outlets delighted in publishing his pieces that were critical of the Gaza war and Israeli society, yet he struggled to get articles placed about Irish antisemitism. (1/4)

In Ireland, the existence of Jews is a provocation. That’s what this video teaches us. Any attack on a Jew can be justified because of the “complex backdrop”. Just like any assault on a woman can be justified because of her provocations. What she wore. How she behaved. How she was minding her own business. Jews are a provocation. Our right to exist is a provocation. Our right to have an independent nation is a provocation despite our indigenous ties to the land. On October 7, these same morons thought attacks on Jews in Israel were justified because Gazans were provoked. The provocation was not land or false claims of “apartheid” and “colonialism”. The provocation is Jews existing on a border with Islamism. This provocation has since been extended and reawakened throughout the diaspora because Israel’s response to October 7 is now the provocation for attacking Jews everywhere. This is why antizionism is always a hate movement and why the symbols and slogans of “free Palestine” were always designed as intimidation. They were born as a response to the mere existence of a Jewish state. Hence the Palestinians never accepting an offer for a two state solution. It would not resolve the provocation: that Jews exist. And hence the silence from these Irish bigots. Jewish existence is taboo. It’s a provocation. They have nothing to say.

This video is less than two minutes long and I implore everyone to watch it. It is indeed rather extraordinary. As Holocaust Awareness Ireland says, Patrick Kielty exhibits utter callousness with respect to the attacks on the Jewish community, astonishingly saying ‘the backdrop of that is obviously the horrors in Gaza, this is a complex thing.’ Boy George remains calm and says ‘if you don’t know any Jewish people maybe that’s the problem.’ He then asks the audience ‘do you know any Jewish people?’ Boy George is visibly taken aback by the ensuing silence, and vocalises his shock twice, remarking that it is ‘weird’ and ‘surprising me a little bit.’ Patrick looks uncomfortable and ends puts an end to the topic with a dismissive ‘mmm’. Extraordinary viewing. Just extraordinary.

Openly selling Hamas clothing at London's war memorials in the same week as yet another terror attack on Jews in our capital.