
Lefty journalist Alison O'Connor and Niall Boylan get into an argument about his podcast on The Brendan O'Connor Show
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Lefty journalist Alison O'Connor and Niall Boylan get into an argument about his podcast on The Brendan O'Connor Show

Lefty journalist Alison O'Connor and Niall Boylan get into an argument about his podcast on The Brendan O'Connor Show


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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.

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.

You can listen back to my interview with @PatKennyNT on @NewstalkFM this morning. While I had hoped to spend more time discussing the fears within the Jewish community in Ireland in the wake of the recent attacks in Golders Green, the conversation instead was repeatedly drawn back to Israel’s actions over the past two and ½ years. I raised the question of why Jews in the diaspora are expected to be answerable for the actions of the Israeli government, a point Pat Kenny acknowledged. Yet the discussion reflexively returned to Israel as an explanation for the rise in hostility towards Jews in Ireland, rather than examining the fairness or consequences of that assumption. This reflex has become typical of much of the Irish media: a persistent reluctance to challenge its own framing, often without sufficient scrutiny, reinforcing a narrative that is neither balanced nor fully grounded in fact. I hope, at the very least, that listeners were exposed to a perspective that is too often overlooked. Happy to return to continue the conversation with Pat. link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGFOHgOIus0C