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The entire European Nations rejects the fake "genocide" propaganda. Except two. 1. Liberal govt of Spain and 2. Irish prez. Sister of "activist" radical Margaret Connolly.
Now, after Slovenia's newly elected PM.
After years of hostility toward Israel, a dramatic political shift in Slovenia: Pro-Israel supporter Janez JanŔa has been elected to lead the government...
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Current Ireland stand:
A historic combination of IRA-PLO terror links in the past, bad ol' Jew hatred.
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic.
By Artillery Ro, Owen Polley, 5 June, 2026.
Just like other groups that tend to be consumed by hatred for Israel, Irish nationalists usually deny they are antisemitic. The most common defence is that they do not hate Jews or Israelis, but simply detest Israelās government, which they accuse of genocide[sic] and colonialism.
This was already a flimsy excuse for an obsessively one-sided view of conflict in the Middle East. Any credibility it retained has been undermined further by the hysterical reaction to the Republic of Irelandās upcoming international football matches against Israel..
Last week, the Republicās friendly match against Qatar at the Aviva Stadium was disrupted, when supporters pelted the playing field with tennis balls. They were not protesting at their opponentsā dismal record on human rights, intolerance for homosexuality or exploitation of slave labour. Instead, the balls carried a demand to āStop the Gameā against Israel and an image of the Palestinian flag, which has become ubiquitous across much of the island.
The demonstrators no doubt thought they were displaying the high-mindedness of the Irish people, but the incident most clearly showed a visceral disgust for everything Israeli. The language deployed about this issue in Ireland has moved way beyond legitimate criticism of Israelās prosecution of the war in Gaza. And the obsession with ācrimesā against Palestine is not replicated for other humanitarian crises across the world.
This instinctive loathing of Israel was best summed up by comments after the match from the football pundit and former Irish international Richie Sadlier, on the Republicās national broadcaster, RTE.
In a grave tone, he gestured around the deserted stadium and expressed what appeared to be revulsion for the symbols and people of the worldās only Jewish state. If the scheduled match went ahead, he said, āThe Israeli flag is going to hang on that pole over there. The Israeli ā¦ anthem is going to be played on the speaker. Israeli fans potentially waving flags will be in those seats just there.ā The Irish republicās president, Catherine Connolly, he noted, might even have to shake hands with these people.
This would certainly be awkward for President Connolly, who told the BBC that Hamas was āpart of the fabric of the Palestinian peopleā, and should not be excluded from running Palestine, despite its slaughter of innocent Jews on October 7. Anti-Israel bias must run in the family. Her sister, Dr Margaret Connolly, was one of twelve Irish citizens recently deported from Israel, after an āaidā flotilla heading for Gaza was intercepted by Israeli forces.
You do not have to examine the rhetoric on the Middle East in Ireland very deeply to find the real source of nationalistsā disgust for Israel and their supposed empathy for Palestine. The former international player James McClean, who once posted a picture of himself home-schooling his children in a balaclava, said recently, āIf there is one country that should recognise oppression and the turmoil that brings then itās Ireland.ā
Irelandās obsession with Israel and Palestine is powered by its own highly developed sense of victimhood and the hatred of Britishness that is the bedrock of its national identity. In Northern Ireland, the conflict can also provide an excuse to flaunt controversial symbols as a way of antagonising unionists, while denying any charges of sectarianism..
thecritic.co.uk
The disparate fortunes of Catherine Connolly and her sister.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 12:13 PM
...thereās the thing about Dr Margaret: she knew exactly what she was doing. While Ireland is experiencing a chronic shortage of doctors, she packed her bag and apparently left a locum in charge of her practice. She boarded a vessel toward a blockaded coastline in the knowledge that she would almost certainly be removed from it. One may think it strategically pointless and morally serious at the same time. These things are not mutually exclusive.
But strategic pointlessness, when it is the Presidentās sister engaging in it, acquires a different quality of awkwardness. The President of Ireland was, at that precise moment, the guest of a monarch whose government is among the closest western partners, strategically and economically, of the state that had just detained her sibling. Catherine Connollyās diary of official engagements and Margaret Connollyās present coordinates do not overlap. They do not even come close. The two women are, geographically and diplomatically, about as far apart as it is possible for two sisters to be while remaining on the same planet and in the same news cycle.
But there it is. One Connolly taking tea with the King. One Connolly being taken, more or less as predicted, by a UK ally. Irelandās first family, doing Ireland things, on opposite sides of the world.
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See the following date, 3 years before Oct 7...
Watch: Anti-Semitic tirade at Irish bar
Author Tuvia Tenenbaum films patrons at northern Irish bar expressing 'honest' hatred of Jews.
Marcy Oster/JTA. Apr 16, 2019.
Tenenbom asked them why there are so many Palestinian flags flying in the area. Patrons responded by telling him how they feel about Jews and Israelis.
āThe only thing Hitler did wrong was he didnāt kill enough f***ing Jews,ā said one patron. Others called Jews the āscourge of the earthā and Israelis āchild-murdering scum,ā according to the Belfast Telegraph.
Tenenbom told the "Frank Mitchell Phone-Inā radio show on U105 in Belfast that he has dealt with this type of anti-Semitism before and met many people who are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
But, he said, āI donāt think I ever have met people who have so much hatred for the Jews as I met in Northern Ireland and Ireland, and that includes Derry.ā
www.israelnationalnews.com
BTW. THE SAME IRISH RADICAL "ACTIVISTS" ADVOCATE FOR EVEN MORE ISLAMO ARAB IMMIGRANTS.
Now, after Slovenia's newly elected PM.
After years of hostility toward Israel, a dramatic political shift in Slovenia: Pro-Israel supporter Janez JanŔa has been elected to lead the government...
___
Current Ireland stand:
A historic combination of IRA-PLO terror links in the past, bad ol' Jew hatred.
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic.
By Artillery Ro, Owen Polley, 5 June, 2026.
Just like other groups that tend to be consumed by hatred for Israel, Irish nationalists usually deny they are antisemitic. The most common defence is that they do not hate Jews or Israelis, but simply detest Israelās government, which they accuse of genocide[sic] and colonialism.
This was already a flimsy excuse for an obsessively one-sided view of conflict in the Middle East. Any credibility it retained has been undermined further by the hysterical reaction to the Republic of Irelandās upcoming international football matches against Israel..
Last week, the Republicās friendly match against Qatar at the Aviva Stadium was disrupted, when supporters pelted the playing field with tennis balls. They were not protesting at their opponentsā dismal record on human rights, intolerance for homosexuality or exploitation of slave labour. Instead, the balls carried a demand to āStop the Gameā against Israel and an image of the Palestinian flag, which has become ubiquitous across much of the island.
The demonstrators no doubt thought they were displaying the high-mindedness of the Irish people, but the incident most clearly showed a visceral disgust for everything Israeli. The language deployed about this issue in Ireland has moved way beyond legitimate criticism of Israelās prosecution of the war in Gaza. And the obsession with ācrimesā against Palestine is not replicated for other humanitarian crises across the world.
This instinctive loathing of Israel was best summed up by comments after the match from the football pundit and former Irish international Richie Sadlier, on the Republicās national broadcaster, RTE.
In a grave tone, he gestured around the deserted stadium and expressed what appeared to be revulsion for the symbols and people of the worldās only Jewish state. If the scheduled match went ahead, he said, āThe Israeli flag is going to hang on that pole over there. The Israeli ā¦ anthem is going to be played on the speaker. Israeli fans potentially waving flags will be in those seats just there.ā The Irish republicās president, Catherine Connolly, he noted, might even have to shake hands with these people.
This would certainly be awkward for President Connolly, who told the BBC that Hamas was āpart of the fabric of the Palestinian peopleā, and should not be excluded from running Palestine, despite its slaughter of innocent Jews on October 7. Anti-Israel bias must run in the family. Her sister, Dr Margaret Connolly, was one of twelve Irish citizens recently deported from Israel, after an āaidā flotilla heading for Gaza was intercepted by Israeli forces.
You do not have to examine the rhetoric on the Middle East in Ireland very deeply to find the real source of nationalistsā disgust for Israel and their supposed empathy for Palestine. The former international player James McClean, who once posted a picture of himself home-schooling his children in a balaclava, said recently, āIf there is one country that should recognise oppression and the turmoil that brings then itās Ireland.ā
Irelandās obsession with Israel and Palestine is powered by its own highly developed sense of victimhood and the hatred of Britishness that is the bedrock of its national identity. In Northern Ireland, the conflict can also provide an excuse to flaunt controversial symbols as a way of antagonising unionists, while denying any charges of sectarianism..
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control | Owen Polley | The Critic Magazine
Just like other groups that tend to be consumed by hatred for Israel, Irish nationalists usually deny they are antisemitic. The most common defence is that they do not hate Jews or Israelisā¦
The disparate fortunes of Catherine Connolly and her sister.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 12:13 PM
...thereās the thing about Dr Margaret: she knew exactly what she was doing. While Ireland is experiencing a chronic shortage of doctors, she packed her bag and apparently left a locum in charge of her practice. She boarded a vessel toward a blockaded coastline in the knowledge that she would almost certainly be removed from it. One may think it strategically pointless and morally serious at the same time. These things are not mutually exclusive.
But strategic pointlessness, when it is the Presidentās sister engaging in it, acquires a different quality of awkwardness. The President of Ireland was, at that precise moment, the guest of a monarch whose government is among the closest western partners, strategically and economically, of the state that had just detained her sibling. Catherine Connollyās diary of official engagements and Margaret Connollyās present coordinates do not overlap. They do not even come close. The two women are, geographically and diplomatically, about as far apart as it is possible for two sisters to be while remaining on the same planet and in the same news cycle.
But there it is. One Connolly taking tea with the King. One Connolly being taken, more or less as predicted, by a UK ally. Irelandās first family, doing Ireland things, on opposite sides of the world.
___
See the following date, 3 years before Oct 7...
Watch: Anti-Semitic tirade at Irish bar
Author Tuvia Tenenbaum films patrons at northern Irish bar expressing 'honest' hatred of Jews.
Marcy Oster/JTA. Apr 16, 2019.
Tenenbom asked them why there are so many Palestinian flags flying in the area. Patrons responded by telling him how they feel about Jews and Israelis.
āThe only thing Hitler did wrong was he didnāt kill enough f***ing Jews,ā said one patron. Others called Jews the āscourge of the earthā and Israelis āchild-murdering scum,ā according to the Belfast Telegraph.
Tenenbom told the "Frank Mitchell Phone-Inā radio show on U105 in Belfast that he has dealt with this type of anti-Semitism before and met many people who are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
But, he said, āI donāt think I ever have met people who have so much hatred for the Jews as I met in Northern Ireland and Ireland, and that includes Derry.ā
Watch: Anti-Semitic tirade at Irish bar
Author Tuvia Tenenbaum films patrons at northern Irish bar expressing 'honest' hatred of Jews.
www.israelnationalnews.com
BTW. THE SAME IRISH RADICAL "ACTIVISTS" ADVOCATE FOR EVEN MORE ISLAMO ARAB IMMIGRANTS.
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