Flinging the anti-Semitism slur around is an injustice to the many Israeli citizens who decry their government’s protracted killing spree in Gaza and the illegal settlements in the West Bank
Israel ’s foreign minister is anti-Catholic. That is why he decided to shut the Israel i embassy in Dublin.
A ludicrous and false hypothesis, I know, but, according to the logic of Gideon Sa’ar, it makes perfect sense. Without a shred of evidence, the Israeli minister has. It is an abominable thing to say and it wounds deeply in this country haunted by decades of bloodshed resulting from religious bigotry. Sa’ar seems unaware that Ireland was violently reminded of the attraction of peaceful ethno-religious coexistence during those years of horror.
History warns us to think twice before reaching for religion as a flag of convenience, because its consequences can be cataclysmic. Karl Marx said religion was the opium of the people. Its abuse has killed legions of human beings down through the centuries. More recent ties bind the two countries. In the 1990s, three of the 160 TDs in the Dáil were Jewish – Fianna Fáil’s Ben Briscoe, Fine Gael’s Alan Shatter and Labour’s Mervyn Taylor. That hardly betokens prejudice against Jews, who accounted for just 0.04 per cent of Ireland’s population at the time. Ireland has had an emotional bond with Israel too as a place of religious pilgrimage.
Compared to the pulverising of Gaza, a death total exceeding 45,100, the mass killings and orphaning of children, the starvation and premature deaths caused by the obstruction of aid convoys, and the imprisonment within the Strip of a population under bombardment, Ireland’s Occupied Territories Bill, its recognition of Palestinian statehood and its support for South Africa’s genocide case in the ICJ are but gentle nudges towards a peaceful two-state resolution.
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