Irish Facebook page claims 'invasion' of Jews in Cork

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Just came across this article by chance. I'm shocked by the comment posted by evny077. I find it appalling that some people still hold on to this belief that Jewish people are mean, greedy etc. Making negative generalisations like that about people is unfair. I've always thought of Jews as educated, cultured, successful people - something which all the more astonishing given the amount of prejudice they have faced over the years. I'd love to know if you're Irish-American? I always find it laughable when people of immigrant stock themselves have a go at other groups. Irish-Americans have no more right to be in America than Jews do. In any event, the Jewish community in Ireland is tiny so there's no "invasion", believe me (and I live here). Modern Ireland is an increasingly multicultural society and most of us have no problem with that as we realise there are good and bad in every group. Maybe it's about time the Irish in America caught up?

I am so pissed off now...that I will say it... God Save The Queen...Never Surrender!

evny...the same thing can be said of the Irish and Tammany Hall and Richard Daley and the Big Labor Unions of the United States... evny is a green Nazi...A Nazi with a brogue

Ward...is an example of getting too much time from Father McFeeley in the rectory...

there has always been Jewish people in ireland,this is just another distraction to whats really going on.Irish people should be more concerned about the sale of our national assets and the extra debt the government has trapped the people into..The JEWS arent taking over its the International bankers and money changers....we shouldnt hate the Jewish people we should feel sorry for them cause their all going to hell...HAHA ;)...

Is this site supposed to be "pro-Irish"? The place must have changed some since i left, as we were pretty decent to all comers for a long time.

Ireland will rue the day they let them in the country. Once in they will take over and destroy/steal everything they can. Anyone that asks for justice and accountability will be labeled anti-semitic. In fact it is the Jewish settlers that are the most vile hate mongering people there are. They are anti-Christian and anti-everything else and won't rest until they have brought down ever Christian power in the world. What better place to strike than Ireland with its spiritual turmoil and the fall of the Catholic Church. I would recommend Irish citizens to learn Hebrew, and educate yourself to what is happening around you. Read the Talmud, the little black book they carry around every where (it is nothing close to a Bible or Holy Book). If they get their way in Ireland, you'll be hard pressed to do anything after it is all said and done. I have seen it happen in NY on a daily basis, so this warning is not out of hate, but from experience and observation. Be proactive now, before it is too late.

Corcaigh2010 Funny if you were on the receiving end or hurtful? Don't tell me only Jews criticize - if true - what people eat. You have brought it up below. Don't some radical vegans and vegetarians criticize meat eaters? They do more than just criticize battery hens, etc. Don't thin people criticize morbidly obese people? Don't we laugh at cops eating doughnuts? We all look at what others eat especially if we're not eating the same. Drawing generalizations about ALL members of a grouping as if no other grouping does that is ... racist.

Im from Midleton and to be honest this thing has been totaly blown out of proption. We dont hate jews it was just funny thats all obviously people went overboard with some of the comments. The reason it was funny was the phrase Jew Sitsu and the picture of a man dressed in Jewish attire in a Ji Sitsu pose as the jews that were in Midleton were timid groups of jewish families whom would be the last people you would expect to start an argument total piss take no malice in it. People from outside of Ireland had no right to comment on our country but typical of Americans whom seem to think they have a given right. I have been to America and found it an unbelievable racist place the worst I have seen, I even had a woman told me to get out of her country beacuse all we were good for was drinking and making bombs for the IRA. In Ireland its common practise to hear racist and sexists jokes its not through ignorance, its that our humour lets us take the piss out of each other as Ireland is a multicultural INTEGRATED society that lets us laught at each other and with eachother. Also their is no mention that the jews that were holidaying in Midleton attended a food festival and tried to get a pig that was roasting on a spit(Traditional Dish) stoped. So it was okay for them to come into Midleton and critise people about what they ate? Chaim Herzog the sixth president of Israel is an Irish Jew.

Ah, WoundedPride: once again, anyone who takes issue with your point of view is "utterly ignorant". I have a picture of you in my head, and it's not pretty. The way I see it, you're like a minor character out of Joyce, or perhaps Dickens. You think everyone is stupid and badly-informed. Only you know what is going on. I realise that in saying this, I am opening myself up to another chapter of retribution. But, for God's sake (and I speak as an unbeliever), would you please just allow people to express themselves without denouncing them as fools? Seriously – do you think you could give it a go?

Shamrock100 >>> I don't need to google it. I am quite informed about the so-called "pogrom". How many people were killed in that "pogrom" by the way? Guess--I'm sure you don't know. You're utterly ignorant of Irish history to use that incident as evidence for your slurs on Ireland. Compared to the countries of Eastern Europe (countries which are now pumping settlers into Ireland) the Irish people have a very good record of tolerance of all minorities, especially Jewish people.

This really seems like a non event of a story, a minor facebook page, obviously inspired by the comedy of Sascha Baron Cohen gets pulled from the site. A lot of the offensive comments I've seen quoted are references to his Borat character and things that that character has said. The main evidence of anti-semitism? A regional joke about a village in Cork.

Well done Irish Central for publishing this story - seems the main Irish media have some catching up to do. Yesterday, when looking for sources for the story I came across a 2008 thread on boards.ie with the reference to 'Ovens'. I don't think though that it's teenagers that are fomenting this kind of bigotry (on boards.ie and Facebook) - usually teens are used as the fodder for hate mongering.

No anti-semitism in Ireland?! Please google "Limerick Pogrom".