The worst antisemitism I —and virtually all of my friends—encountered in the US was from Irish-Catholics. I think there is a religious based component to their hatred.
There’s a fringe subset in Catholicism, the Radical Traditionalists (RadTrads), that views the Catholic Church as the only true Israel, and that any state of Israel established by the Jewish diaspora as a heresy against Jesus. Lately, I’ve been seeing many online RadTrad circles citing the writings of the notorious Irish priest, Fr. Denis Fahey, whose writings influenced the antisemitic Fr. Coughlin’s sermons during the late 1930s.
I have to emphasize this is a fringe subset that doesn’t represent the mainstream of Catholicism, but it is a very vocal online community, which is why prominent Catholic writers like Rod Dreher have been very vocal in pointing out why it is heretical to deny Judaism from the origins of Christianity.
So, they fight a long war against the English, and they fight like hell, but when their existence is being snuffed, no person of credible substance says a word, no armed Irish resistance, no snipers, no bombs.
Exactly, that is what we were all made to believe. However, Ireland wasn't neutral at all. In reality, the Irish Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (American born of Spanish/Irish origin) was a great sympathizer of A. Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Ireland was neutral in WW2. And your implication that Ireland was sympathetic to the Nazis is utterly false: Ireland was neutral with ALLIED sympathies -which is something you would know if you bothered to examine the relevant details (DeValera's shameful offering of condolences notwithstanding). There's plenty to criticise about Ireland vis-a-vis Israel without spreading this much-repeated falsehood.
Interesting article, thank you for your work. Jew hatred is odd. I’ve encountered it over the course of my life, but never understood where it came from, or even if those expressing it understood where they picked it up. It is grotesque.
Perhaps it reflects self-hatred; perhaps it's an animosity because we refused to accept the new religions; perhaps its a human need to scapegoat -- and the fact that we refuse to go away AND continually prosper and contribute is galling, I suppose.
It’s the boiled frog scenario. If you slowly heat the water in a bowl with a frog in it, it will adjust its body temperature until it’s boiled alive and never jump out.
Fortunately, I am too old to see Ireland and Britain turn Muslim in 40-60 years, but all places will be destroyed and turned in the same middle eastern cesspools these immigrants came from. In 100-150 years the majority of the western world will be predominantly Muslim and start to decay
I think you are overestimating how long this will take. Read the book The Young Point and you will understand that, once there are about 20% of fanatical, violent Muslims in a country, it's over.
They'll probably rename the country something like: Crap-loch-i-stan.
Utterly speechless. Brilliant argument that destroys the Irish governments shameful moral-posturing against Israel. Totally convinced that Israel is fighting a war against radical Islam that the rest of the West is too pusillanimous and stupid to acknowledge the need for.
Having spent most of my adult life in Ireland, I’ve grown increasingly disillusioned—not just with its government but with its people, too. I hesitate to condemn an entire nation, but when Irish President Higgins chose to call out the so-called atrocities of Israel during his speech of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, despite being asked by the tiny Irish Jewish community not to, I couldn’t stay silent. If no one else will challenge this relentless finger-pointing, then I must. I explore this further in my Substack piece, The Echoes of Empathy: Reflections on Ireland, Israel, Europe, the World, and the Lessons We Forget (https://dd1977.substack.com/p/the-echoes-of-empathy-reflections)
My suggestion is that post Catholic Ireland do as Sinead and go full on Muslim.....small population....still larger than tiny Israel...can accomodate a million or more Palestinians that they champion. No more women with purple hair...hijabs or burkas required on pain of death like Iran...no more Guiness, pubs serve only lemonade....hookah bars okay....takes care of the alcoholism.....I wonder that all the conservatives here on radio or TV who are Irish back Israel and the Irish in Ireland seem to overwhelmingly HATE Israel. Even fifty years ago I got a taste of this while encountering Irish kids my age in Istanbul and their stated hostility to Israel.
Wow. Spot on. A lesson to be learned by many Western countries. there is a statistic that claims once the Moslem population of any country reaches 30%, the fight to retain its cultural identity is lost. Dawah triumphs.
No Irish government supported the IRA, a terrorist organisation that sought to undermine the Irish state since the 1920's. Please look at the actual facts before writing scurrilous falsehoods.
I'm aware of the different iterations of the IRA down through the 20th century. My reply here to Steve didn't need to go into that moot detail given that, as I indicated, no Irish government supported the IRA since the 1920's anyway (the beginning of the Irish Free State).
But I notice you didn't ask Steve - who was first here not to say "which" IRA he was "even" referring to - the same question.
it's a general question since there have been quite a few incarnations and splits and certainly IRA figures became Irish political figures, especially if you go back to the original IRA, but even latter day incarnations have wielded political power
A general question that is irrelevant, so let's not lose sight of what's at issue here: organisations/individuals that "wielded political power" (whatever you might mean by that loose phrasing) are not the issue, the Irish Government is - i.e. the sole legitimate, democratic, body mandated by the Irish people to govern. So I repeat myself: at no point in the history of the state (Free State and Republic) did the Irish government support the IRA (of whatever iteration) contrary to Steve's assertion. You seem a knowledgeable fellow, perhaps you can correct Steve on this matter.
Err, indeed some did (but only after turning to legal, constitutional means to their ends), but so what? that doesn't make your comment saying the Irish government "supported" the IRA true. Please stop embarrassing yourself by pursuing your mistaken notions re. Irish history.
I am sorry to hear about your loss and despise the bastards who did those things. Thankfully the Good Friday Agreement has succeeded in allowing a new British and Irish generation to grow, free from the sectarian terrorism that destroyed so many lives.
"More than the Jews, it is their enemies who will not allow Zionism to die out": I recently said to my husband that if Jew haters were smart, they would have left us alone and by now we may have assimilated out of existence.
The worst antisemitism I —and virtually all of my friends—encountered in the US was from Irish-Catholics. I think there is a religious based component to their hatred.
There’s a fringe subset in Catholicism, the Radical Traditionalists (RadTrads), that views the Catholic Church as the only true Israel, and that any state of Israel established by the Jewish diaspora as a heresy against Jesus. Lately, I’ve been seeing many online RadTrad circles citing the writings of the notorious Irish priest, Fr. Denis Fahey, whose writings influenced the antisemitic Fr. Coughlin’s sermons during the late 1930s.
I have to emphasize this is a fringe subset that doesn’t represent the mainstream of Catholicism, but it is a very vocal online community, which is why prominent Catholic writers like Rod Dreher have been very vocal in pointing out why it is heretical to deny Judaism from the origins of Christianity.
Exactly. The world is christian—Rome has ruled for almost 2k years, certainly not Jews or Judaism or a Jewish nation. And at its core, it hates Jews.
100%
So, they fight a long war against the English, and they fight like hell, but when their existence is being snuffed, no person of credible substance says a word, no armed Irish resistance, no snipers, no bombs.
The Irish government was neutral during WW2 It has no right to lecture Israel about morality
Exactly, that is what we were all made to believe. However, Ireland wasn't neutral at all. In reality, the Irish Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (American born of Spanish/Irish origin) was a great sympathizer of A. Hitler and Nazi Germany.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/eamon-de-valeras-condolences-over-adolf-hitlers-death-sparked-outrage-as-government-was-inundated-with-angry-letters/a1286710045.html#:~:text=Secret%20files%20revealed%20the%20Government,Adolf%20Hitler%20in%20May%201945.
There has been so much hidden. Only when i went to live in Ireland, I learned so much more.
Ireland was neutral in WW2. And your implication that Ireland was sympathetic to the Nazis is utterly false: Ireland was neutral with ALLIED sympathies -which is something you would know if you bothered to examine the relevant details (DeValera's shameful offering of condolences notwithstanding). There's plenty to criticise about Ireland vis-a-vis Israel without spreading this much-repeated falsehood.
Interesting article, thank you for your work. Jew hatred is odd. I’ve encountered it over the course of my life, but never understood where it came from, or even if those expressing it understood where they picked it up. It is grotesque.
Yes, like you, I cannot understand it, where it came from, but I've encountered Jew hatred over and over again, when it had no reason to be there.
Perhaps it reflects self-hatred; perhaps it's an animosity because we refused to accept the new religions; perhaps its a human need to scapegoat -- and the fact that we refuse to go away AND continually prosper and contribute is galling, I suppose.
It’s the boiled frog scenario. If you slowly heat the water in a bowl with a frog in it, it will adjust its body temperature until it’s boiled alive and never jump out.
Fortunately, I am too old to see Ireland and Britain turn Muslim in 40-60 years, but all places will be destroyed and turned in the same middle eastern cesspools these immigrants came from. In 100-150 years the majority of the western world will be predominantly Muslim and start to decay
I think you are overestimating how long this will take. Read the book The Young Point and you will understand that, once there are about 20% of fanatical, violent Muslims in a country, it's over.
They'll probably rename the country something like: Crap-loch-i-stan.
Interesting premise for a compelling essay, but I wouldn't call it genocide. Capitulation yes, genocide no.
Thank you for a brilliantly written, excoriating, and inspiring piece of writing.
From a Christian admirer of Israel and her people.
Utterly speechless. Brilliant argument that destroys the Irish governments shameful moral-posturing against Israel. Totally convinced that Israel is fighting a war against radical Islam that the rest of the West is too pusillanimous and stupid to acknowledge the need for.
Thank you for this wonderful article!
Having spent most of my adult life in Ireland, I’ve grown increasingly disillusioned—not just with its government but with its people, too. I hesitate to condemn an entire nation, but when Irish President Higgins chose to call out the so-called atrocities of Israel during his speech of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, despite being asked by the tiny Irish Jewish community not to, I couldn’t stay silent. If no one else will challenge this relentless finger-pointing, then I must. I explore this further in my Substack piece, The Echoes of Empathy: Reflections on Ireland, Israel, Europe, the World, and the Lessons We Forget (https://dd1977.substack.com/p/the-echoes-of-empathy-reflections)
My suggestion is that post Catholic Ireland do as Sinead and go full on Muslim.....small population....still larger than tiny Israel...can accomodate a million or more Palestinians that they champion. No more women with purple hair...hijabs or burkas required on pain of death like Iran...no more Guiness, pubs serve only lemonade....hookah bars okay....takes care of the alcoholism.....I wonder that all the conservatives here on radio or TV who are Irish back Israel and the Irish in Ireland seem to overwhelmingly HATE Israel. Even fifty years ago I got a taste of this while encountering Irish kids my age in Istanbul and their stated hostility to Israel.
Wow. Spot on. A lesson to be learned by many Western countries. there is a statistic that claims once the Moslem population of any country reaches 30%, the fight to retain its cultural identity is lost. Dawah triumphs.
The IRA were cowardly terrorists and the Irish government supported them too.
Daft, Stunning, ignorance.
No Irish government supported the IRA, a terrorist organisation that sought to undermine the Irish state since the 1920's. Please look at the actual facts before writing scurrilous falsehoods.
which IRA are you even referring to?
I'm aware of the different iterations of the IRA down through the 20th century. My reply here to Steve didn't need to go into that moot detail given that, as I indicated, no Irish government supported the IRA since the 1920's anyway (the beginning of the Irish Free State).
But I notice you didn't ask Steve - who was first here not to say "which" IRA he was "even" referring to - the same question.
it's a general question since there have been quite a few incarnations and splits and certainly IRA figures became Irish political figures, especially if you go back to the original IRA, but even latter day incarnations have wielded political power
A general question that is irrelevant, so let's not lose sight of what's at issue here: organisations/individuals that "wielded political power" (whatever you might mean by that loose phrasing) are not the issue, the Irish Government is - i.e. the sole legitimate, democratic, body mandated by the Irish people to govern. So I repeat myself: at no point in the history of the state (Free State and Republic) did the Irish government support the IRA (of whatever iteration) contrary to Steve's assertion. You seem a knowledgeable fellow, perhaps you can correct Steve on this matter.
Err, the IRA leaders became political figures.
Err, indeed some did (but only after turning to legal, constitutional means to their ends), but so what? that doesn't make your comment saying the Irish government "supported" the IRA true. Please stop embarrassing yourself by pursuing your mistaken notions re. Irish history.
You are right, I am influenced by seeing friends, women and children killed by cowardly IRA attacks in Britain.
I am sorry to hear about your loss and despise the bastards who did those things. Thankfully the Good Friday Agreement has succeeded in allowing a new British and Irish generation to grow, free from the sectarian terrorism that destroyed so many lives.
"More than the Jews, it is their enemies who will not allow Zionism to die out": I recently said to my husband that if Jew haters were smart, they would have left us alone and by now we may have assimilated out of existence.
Ireland
Thank you so much for your wonderful article.......it's very unfortunate and dangerous was going
on in Ireland...... They didn't like the Jews......well....now they have the Muslims taken over their country.....(their problem.....not ours).......