In 1944, the Jewish Representative Council of Éire asserted that Ireland was not and had never been anti-Semitic, stating that Jewish citizens lived on 'terms of closest friendship' with their fellow Irish people.
Allegations that Ireland was an anti-Semitic country were described as “false, irresponsible and mischievous” by representatives of the Irish Jewish community. In 1944 the Jewish Representative Council of Éire signed a letter stating that neither the Irish government nor the Irish people were anti-Semitic.
“The Jewish community live and have always lived on terms of closest friendship with their fellow Irish citizens,” they wrote in a document in the files of the Department of Foreign Affairs which have just been released. “Freedom to practice their religion is specifically guaranteed in the Irish Constitution. No Irish government has ever discriminated between Jew and non-Jew.” Fianna Fáil TD Robert Briscoe, who was Jewish, denied “emphatically” that the people of Ireland or any government of Ireland, are, or have ever been anti-Semitic. Briscoe, who fought against the British in the War of Independence, said: “I should like to add that the Jewish community in Éire are taking their full share in the defence and auxiliary defence forces of the country and they wholeheartedly support the Government’s policy of neutrality.” The two declarations were sent following a request from Franz Josef Katz, a member of the World Jewish Congress, in August 1944 inquiring of the Irish government as to whether or not it would support the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine
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