63 Comments

• AbeBird | Feb 17, 2013, 12:26 PM EST

  Irish have the right to be Antisemitic. After all what they have contributed to humanity (except the Kennedy family that chose to be Americans!)? Jews, less in number than Irish, contributed to humanity so much (they even gave God to Christians), for so long, that sure the Irish can think for themselves that Jews are fucked up! Any way, I hope that the Irish people will feel good with their hating of Israel, and embrace extreme Muslims that use them in their war against Israel, but at the mean time they are building great enclaves inside Ireland, headace for the next generations of good Irish. How long it will take until the Irish (as a matter of fact, European) Intifada will break out?

• anfhile | Dec 22, 2012, 10:14 AM EST

  Metti ought to be embarrassed to write such errant nonsense. The most anti-Semitic country, my eye! I have got so bored with this smear! Legitimate criticism of Israel is legitimate criticism. There are so few Jews in Ireland - the population has always been tiny that to make this assertion is ridiculous. What lazy journalism! By the way, we had a recent passport scandal involving Israeli intelligence people using fake Irish passports in a Middle East op - perhaps the Israeli foreign ministry would care to comment? Now, that is news - to treat a friendly country is such a fashion... it speaks for itself. Israel is often the author of its own problems and whines when publicity does not go their way...

• Cranleigh | Oct 28, 2012, 08:57 PM EDT

  Regarding refuge for Jews before, during and after WWII, Ireland is not alone in having some explaining to do e.g. Canada, USA, Australia etc. etc.

• Cranleigh | Oct 28, 2012, 08:48 PM EDT

  Do the events in Limerick in 1904 really constitute a pogrom? Nobody was killed, the numbers were tiny, the ringleader was exiled and the attacks were condemned by some leading Irishmen, including Michael Davitt. It's the nearest we got to it, I suppose, but it's a very feeble excuse for one, thank goodness, compared to the real thing in Russia and later elsewhere.

• bunkerhill | Oct 26, 2012, 06:04 PM EDT

  I'm back again because I forgot something. Recent DNA studies shows the Jews and the Arabs to be exactly the same people. Isn't that interesting? One other question I have is that the Jews have constantly entered other countries around the world, more so than any group that I know of. Why? Why did they not stay in their homeland? This goes back as far as Egypt and in all the Egyptian art there is no depiction of Jewish slaves. Indeed I read recently that they were never slaves and that the Pharoah put them out. Another question I have is, while so many of them did integrate and blend into the native population, there was always a large hard core group which refused to integrate and always chose to remain apart and I am wondering why? Can anyone give me the history of this chosen apartheid in so many countries and their reason for choosing never to mix or blend into the country they were living in. Again this does not apply to all Jews and indeed I have Irish-Jewish cousins as do many Irish-Americans. Believe it or not the people who object the most to many of Israel's warlike stances are some Israelis, along with integrated Jews along with some non-integrated Jews around the world. You will find these Jews to be the most compassionate people in the world. It has always been put forth that Jesus Christ was a Jew, but many historians are now questioning that fact. The loving Jesus Christ went after the money lenders in the temple and said "The meek shall inherit the earth." I would love to hear why the Jew's have chosen to wander and some remain forever apart from their chosen country.

• bunkerhill | Oct 26, 2012, 05:28 PM EDT

  Pure baloney. This guy should be sued. Ireland has never persecuted their Jewish population, and if a person of Jewish faith got into trouble it was not over religion. In the US there have been so many Irish-Jewish marriages and I have never seen an anti-Jewish stance. Yet there are many Americans of all backgrounds who are critical of Israel and consider them a very biased state. They are critical of their treatment of the Palestanians and the constant threatening of Iran. Sue this guy.

• shuvonn | Oct 15, 2012, 01:16 PM EDT

  Since when it is anti semitic to CHOOSE where you want to purchase your goods from? The WB and Gaza are both occupied ( yes israel claims it has left Gaza yet the UN deems israel to be the occupying power) and israel is the only country that deems the WB to be *disputed* territory, the UN,EU,US, Amnesty International, International court of Justice and the Red Cross deem that land to be Palestinian territory. Why can no one be critical of israeli policies without the overused term of anti-semite be bandied about? israel wants to trade tarriff free within the Eurozone and enjoys the benefits of being in the ME AND Europe, why should consumers not have the right to choose where they buy their products from? And that is what makes you an anti-semite? Get real

• seamus60 | Oct 12, 2012, 11:37 AM EDT

  Seandavie. Who has had no problem selling these countries the weapons to either oppress their own or other people. Who has installed most of these dictators who as with Sudam got too big for his boots. Give me one good reason as to why we have American or British troops dieing in Iraq. Apart that is, from the fact Iraq and its people will spend decades picking up the tab via their oil reserves.There can be no excuse for any of these dictators treating their people regardless of ethnics in the manner some have. But if you`re going to invade a country at least be truthful as to why. Bush and Blair should be facing international charges for war crimes along with Hussain.

• IrelandNorth | Oct 12, 2012, 09:01 AM EDT

  One of my first ceremonial duties as a newly passed out 20 year old 2 star private in the Irish Army was performing a guard of honour for the newly arrived Israeli ambassador to Ireland sometime in Autumn/Fall, 1977 at Áras an Úachtaran under President Hilary. A proud moment for an impressionable youngster! Fast forward to Apr, '09 where on returning to Ireland from the Holy Land as a duly certified Jerusalem Pilgrim (JP), my Irish passport 's Gaelige' was inspected closely at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport, and we were all photgraphed by British immigration at Heathrow despite only trasiting through UK on British carrier. British Embassy in Dublin failed to offer explanation? Having a high regard for Jewish spirituality (Kabbalah), I have to say that defensive diplomacy and Old Testamentary mailed-fist reprisalism of IDF doesn't endear one to the Palesrael/Israstine state.

• SeanDavie | Oct 11, 2012, 12:14 PM EDT

  Seamus60, what countries has Iran invaded directly or by proxy? What about their ethnic minorities, such as Kurds? What about Mullahs silencing own population a few years back?

• owainglyndwr16 | Oct 11, 2012, 09:33 AM EDT

  Anti Semitic ?? It would help if the Khazarian freak show were ACTUALLY Semitic.. Palestinians are Semitic; I like them as they don't go around Cutting down Olive Groves or expelling people from their homes at Gun Point.. I'll not go into detail about Operation Cast Lead or Rachel Corrie for those acts of terror should by now be forever Tattoo'd in your Brains.. It is one terror attack after another so is it any wonder then that a few Palestinians from the al aqsa brigade made the ultimate sacrifice ? You can call that a Bloody cry for help but NO Western leader cared to listen. If we as mere citizens stand up for the oppressed that does NOT make us anti Semitic That makes us what we truly are Empathetic towards our fellow Human being !!

• seamus60 | Oct 11, 2012, 09:14 AM EDT

  Bishop. we don`t have to look back too far in time to watch Isreali`s pushing Arab farmers off their land to build more settlements in contradiction to agreements. Eamonn Dublin. You have obviously bought into the systematic fear factor being purged out from the likes of Blair and Bush. Because a country like Iran sees its neighbour being taking over as some instrument required way down the line in order to accomadate a New world order, they are called lunatics who are looking to take over the world. What country has Iran invaded.

• BishopSean | Oct 10, 2012, 06:13 PM EDT

  Hi, Woundedknee. The situation in the Land is complex and tragic enough without historical revisionism and journalistic herd instincts on any side. Particularly, Deir Yassin, an Arab town overrun by Jewish forces in April 1948. Controversy has raged over whether Arab casualties occurred in the course of a military operation or as a deliberate massacre. Some claimed it was a massacre by overwhelmingly well armed Israelis and that they engaged in systematic rape and murder to forcibly expel or kill as many Arabs as possible. It is clear Arab forces in Deir Yassin were attacking Jewish convoys trying to break siege of Jerusalem, that Jews counterattacked trying to dislodge those forces, and Arab civilians were killed in the course of the conflict. Continued…

• WoundedKnee | Oct 10, 2012, 03:43 PM EDT

  Bishopsean: "The modern Founding Fathers of Israel really did not want them to leave and said so publicly." What a stupid claim. Is that why they carried out pogroms of Arab villages (Deir Yasin for example)? And if they didn't want the Arabs to leave, how come they won't let them come back? Sounds like you're a Bishop in the Church of Hate and Bigotry.

• BishopSean | Oct 10, 2012, 12:06 PM EDT

  Thanks to EamonnDublin for a very helpful post here. Toonwalker, I think Israelis are sensitive and concerned about plight of Palestinians. The modern Founding Fathers of Israel really did not want them to leave and said so publicly. There are a number of Arab Israelis who are doing well in Israel. Some serve in the Knesset and even criticize Israel in ways no Christian could even do in a Muslim dominated government, as and when they are allowed to serve in publio office, which is becoming rarer and more dangerous. I admire our Irish people for wanting to defend the underdog--but would wish they were better informed of Middle East events and history so as to not confuse David and Goliath.

• EamonnDublin | Oct 10, 2012, 11:26 AM EDT

  The Irish MEDIA is, almost exclusively, blind or apathetic to the threat of Islamism (extreme Islam) to Western civilization. This, despite the repeated threats of Iranian and other lunatic leaders that they will conquer us all and rule us with Shari'a Law. The Irish media blames Israel for its stance with regard to this threat, and puts the blame for world tensions squarely at the feet of Israel/Jews. I do not think it is anti-Semitism per se, but it certainly can appear so - and perception is everything. Sadly, as in most countries, the "man in the street"'s command of the overall situation is shaped by the media. Thus, that same "man in the street" can appear to be anti-Semitic when he robotically blames Israel for the Middle East crisis. The attitude appears to be that "if Israel stopped interfering, then we would have peace". No thought or consideration is given to the threat of Islamism for the simple reason that the media here does not properly report it. Where it does report Islamist violence, the Irish media will always find an excuse for it - "the film", "Netanyahu causing bother", "the cartoon", etc. The "man in the street" again follows suit. The bottom line is that, although it can appear that they ARE anti-Semitic, the Irish people are not, but in general they just follow the line of the media without thinking it through for themselves. The media's opinion piece forms the viewpoint of that part of the citizenry that doesn't think for itself. I STAND WITH ISRAEL. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

• Seanmor | Oct 10, 2012, 11:13 AM EDT

  I wonder if Gerry Adams knows of Michael Mann who was President of the Yiddish Sons of Erin in NYC in the '80s. I heard Mr. Mann give a fiery speech in support of the Nationalists in the North of Ireland at an Irish Solidority rally near the U.N. building in the late '80s.

• toonwalker | Oct 10, 2012, 11:01 AM EDT

  My first time visiting Ireland was as a young lad just out of high school in 1972. I traveled all over the island on a long visit with my girlfriend, who was a Russian Jew. We never heard a hint of anti semetic sentiment. It was pointed out by citizens of Dublin to my Jewish girlfriend that the Mayor of Dublin, Ben Briscoe, was a Jew. A few years later, Ben Briscoe's son, also a Jew, was elected Dublin's Mayor. Two Jews, a father and son, leading Ireland's capital city as Mayors, doesn't give me the impression of the Irish being Jew haters. Ive been back many times to Ireland visiting relations and friends and have never heard a word of hatred against Jews. The two tribes have much in common. I know my tribe doesn't care for bullies at all. I know my tribe will always react if there is a hint of the oppressed becoming the oppressor. Hatred? nah. It is important for Jews to step out of their shoes into others, to see the view.

• hermitTalker | Oct 10, 2012, 10:46 AM EDT

  Citing Jerry Adams and a hateful priest in 1804 in Limerick as proof Ireland is an anti-Jewish nation is dead wrong. BTW; anti-Semitic applies to Arabs also, they are also Semites, not just Jews. Every race has intermingled in history so carefully tread in that muddy ocean. Ireland did not like how Israel was established and we can understand why after the story worked itself out, a displaced people driven into camps and into exile is not the best way to establish a secure nation. We all recognise the resentment of Jews as a hated and despised religious group from lousy Bible reading throughout history. Vatican 11 worked successfully at correcting that and that continues to this day. Catholics still suffer in Belfast and in the southern USA states from the same ignorant bigoted prejudice so no one can claim squeaky clean credentials for racism or religious or ethnic bigotry.

• IrelandNorth | Oct 10, 2012, 08:30 AM EDT

  Economics trumps nationality every time. Foreign migrant workers get jobs in Ireland over the Irish because they work cheaper. Irish bosses are more patriotic to their bank accounts than their own unemployed classes. There is a Jewish sect in Jerusalem which disagrees with the Zionist state, because it wasn't granted by God. But which is the least hysterical religion on the planet?

• jacersagain | Oct 09, 2012, 08:30 PM EDT

  (…more) The sooner the better that Jews finally give in, surrender and recognise that their Messiah lived amongst them (2000 yrs ago by the Gregorian calendar that you and I are forced to live by, daily which calendar, I might add, I don’t believe in either), and performed many miracles to prove that while living amongst them, and still does (mainly) through the Roman Catholic Church’s believers, the sooner all hatred will disperse. The Jews of Israel and not a few Christians and Islamists should - really, really, really - start taking a good hard look at their brothers and sisters, the Messianic Jews.

• jacersagain | Oct 09, 2012, 08:28 PM EDT

  @ Wou’knee (02.48, 9th Oct) … how dare you choose to see my stated facts as bigotry! I have nothing against present-day Jews (or Islamists). They are both grossly, badly misled groups of yet holy people. Today’s Messianic Jews, Egyptian Coptics and not a few of Roman Catholics are more in tune with our Christ than we very west-of-Jerusalem Catholics are. Running away from, chasing or running after something false (e.g. Money, which, like Time, I don’t believe in) has been the Jews’ downfall and it’s been the why they depend on American peoples’ taxed monies and shared scientific and nuclear knowledge to remain in ill-grounded, undeserved luxurious existence. (More…)

• seamus60 | Oct 09, 2012, 07:20 PM EDT

  Too many getting bogged down in the long term history. Surely the Jewish people should have learned after all they came through the lesson of treating others as they would like to be treated.

• Happyhippo | Oct 09, 2012, 06:16 PM EDT

  What amazes me is that a country that professes such a strong witness to the Christian faith and traditions with its very soul rooted in Israel and where the Christ was born a Hebrew and spent his life,that the dislike of Israel as a country is so apparent,the comment below has some merit which compared Irish history to the Palestinians and

• O'Hanlon | Oct 09, 2012, 02:12 PM EDT

  Okay commonsense, what about those 'lazy' Poles who refuse to do the low paid jobs that they think they artoo good for now being done by "hard working" Korean migrants? The same divide and rule merry go round is a slimy hand to play, usually by bloated boardroom gluttoneers who have bled Ireland dry with entrenched corruption and fraud. Please name one country where the "hard working, good ol boy economic migrant" versus homegrown inidgenous labour scam isn't being manipulated by Government and multi-nationals to keep nations divided? Only bigots rely on such a pale, sterile legacy, this dehumanising contempt for humanity that sees stoic virtue in degredation and integrity inthe poverty that feeds their trough and makes the compliant hordes "aspirational". Of course, only poverty can achieve this heroic resolve, always preached from the platform of pious, tax avoiding oligarchs who use Ireland as a tax haven and offshore jobs to sweatshops in countries where workers have to jump from windows to get so much as a 30 second break. Why conservatives won the cold war, to go into business with the oligarchs in Russia and China. In the end, in unity they can shaft the global econony and hoard the wealth and resources in their vast, spacious coffers. Did in, enjoy!

• SeamusMor | Oct 09, 2012, 01:30 PM EDT

  The Irish are not anti-semitic. They are anti-militarist, anti-occupation, anti-blockade, anti-human rights abuse, anti-theft and forgery,anti-assassination, anti-bulldozer crushing oh homes and humans. The Irish people have no problem with Jewish people. They have a problem with some of the the policies of the State of Israel, who has abandoned her founding principles to become more British than the British, as evidenced her appalling mistreatment of the Palestinians.

• TayandCake | Oct 09, 2012, 11:36 AM EDT

  Its a bit harsh this, this bloke metti should do well to remember Italy's fascist pass

• ancavker | Oct 09, 2012, 09:44 AM EDT

  It always was amazing to me how much the Irish in Ireland cared about the Palestinians, and cared nothing for their own people north of the border.

• BishopSean | Oct 09, 2012, 08:40 AM EDT

  Hi, Donegalcali. Your statement seems to imply that, to be good Jews, Israelis must forsake Israel as though they had no historic or legal right to the land. Even if this unfounded assumption were defensible, what would one offer them? To exchange their democracy for dhimmitude, return to live again under Muslim states that consider them descendents of apes and swine [Qur’an 5:60], who will not allow freedoms of expression, conscience, religion, or equal rights for women? That is, provided they would not first be driven into the sea or slaughtered, as some Muslims are promising. Or, should they be expelled again to Europe to be chased/hunted over the Caucuses and back? Or returned to Western Europe where new Muslim immigrants not infrequently attack Jews? Your statement that Israelis are biggest human rights perpetrators in human history—what rational sources could be used to support that statement? Regards.

• WoundedKnee | Oct 09, 2012, 02:52 AM EDT

  Commonsense (sic): What a dumb remark. You objected to Irish people complaining because foreign settlers are taking over their country? You objected to young working0-class Irish feeling resentment because all the apparatus of state, church and media over there tells them they are inferior to foreign migrants, that they need to get out of the way and make room for the settlers? But of course you didn't object, you kept your mouth shut. If you hate Irish nationality so much that you want to see the Irish displaced from their ancient homeland it's really weird that you post on this site.

• WoundedKnee | Oct 09, 2012, 02:48 AM EDT

  Jacersagain: That kind of ignorant bigotry has no place here. For every Jewish person who has taken money out of Ireland you'll find a score or more Irish Catholics who have done worse.

• uppinko | Oct 08, 2012, 08:11 PM EDT

  Merefalow, you'll get your fill of Palestine and Islam one day when you'll be glad of the protection of the Israelis. Beware the Scimitar.

• merefalow | Oct 08, 2012, 01:50 PM EDT

  PERHAPHS ITS MORE A CASE OF A COUNTRY THAT HAS SUFFERED INVASION AND PERSECUTION BY A CRUEL AND POWERFULL MILITARY NATION FOR CENTURIES ,THAT CAN NOT STOMACH SEEING ANOTHER NATION SUFFERING THAT SAME CRUEL AND UNRELENTING FATE, THAT MAKES IRELAND LESS THAN SYMPATHETIC TO THE ISRAELY OCUPATION AND ILLEGAL SEQUESTRATION OF PALESTINE.

• Commonsence | Oct 08, 2012, 12:58 PM EDT

  As an individual with close business ties to Ireland for 4 decades, I can tell you first hand that hypocricy exists in the hearts of many Irish. If any nationality should abhor anti anything religious or ethnic it is truly the Irish! We have been considered less than human, intellectual midgets, direct decendants of apes and worse for generations by many other nationalities. One only has to look at cartoons published in leading newspapers for over a century which support this claim. Records of speeches made in the halls of government refer to the Irish in the most demeaning fashion...yet today some Irish take the same position in reference to others. I watched lazy,street toughs who lived in Dublin's Corporate (government) housing, harass Polish laborers. These Irish bums wouldn't take a job if handed to them were upset that the Poles were taking Irish work away from the Irish. The same is true here in the US, hard working Mex laborers being abused by welfare cheats for working, talk of hypocrisy. In my long life it has been my experience that most "Jew Haters" are simply jealous. They resent the fact that Jews are willing to work and study harder to achieve more. Jews are "Clannish" out of self defence and statistically when they achieve success, Jews are more likely to give back to the community without strings than most others! Gee that's a great reason to dislike someone, Oh well..............

• donegalcali | Oct 08, 2012, 12:21 PM EDT

  Typical childish propaganda from Israel. Disagree with their methods an your anti-semitic. Jewish people are wonderful people. Zionists-not so much. There is a difference and please Israel dont lump ordinary decent Jews in with your evil machine. According to Kissineger you will not be around in ten years whatever that means. I hope the ordinary decent Jews will be around to live a normal life and not be associated with your evil and fed fear by your groups. They lost the right to whine about persecution when they are the biggess human rights perpetrator in human history.

• RedBranch | Oct 08, 2012, 09:59 AM EDT

  Albert Folens come on down!

• seamus60 | Oct 08, 2012, 08:50 AM EDT

  Surely if Adams had any plan at play against Isreal he would have long since attacked issues such as their infleunce on groups like Bilderberg.

• patto69 | Oct 08, 2012, 05:33 AM EDT

  For all the bluff and bluster of the rather tired and hackneyed writings of this journalist he does not produce one fact to support his claim of anti semitism. Opposition to the current violence of the Israeli regime yes, but not anti semiticism. For the benefit of the journalist, most people can spot the difference. It appears to be an ill prepared piece of propaganda that falls due to the siren and unsubstantiated claims made.

• BishopSean | Oct 07, 2012, 09:44 PM EDT

  Hi, Joe Kelsall. Allow me to respectfully disagree—“Skibereen has revisted the Middle East with a Vengeance.” In your visits over 36 years to Palestine, surely you have seen the assistance from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Arab Nations, the EU, USA, Japan, Eastern European Nations, and a number of international NGOs. The package from 2008-2010 was some 7.7 billion dollars. Furthermore, if you watched Palestinians during last Ramadan on BBC TV, you would have seen considerable buying and selling of merchandise that you and I would like to be able to buy. Can Palestinians get to point of being self-reliant and not needing these huge infusions of international assistance? Of course. It will all start with ceasing attacks on Israel, and they know it. Regards.

• Joe Kelsall | Oct 07, 2012, 07:02 PM EDT

  I think it has a lot to do with Israel's fondness for jailers, lawyers and writs that steal Palestinians homes whilst the indigenous population has absolutely no say it its present or future.In the 36 years that I have been visiting Palestine I have seen its territory diminish before my very eyes. You, too, can experience this by joining the Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. Skibereen has revisited the Middle East - with a vengeance.

• BishopSean | Oct 07, 2012, 06:33 PM EDT

  Hi, BigDaddy. Not all Jews were dispersed by Romans, any more than were all Jews dispersed by Babylonians earlier. More Jews were dispersed in 4th Century to India, but always some stayed in the Land. Other Jews bought their way back into the Land in late XIX and early XX centuries. At time of renewed independence,the land was about 50% Arabs and 50% Jews. If anyone would show up at my place, as you say, with a deed 2000 years old and could back up claim that God Himself gave it to them, I would not mess with them. Poles have no historical presence in Ireland prior to the EU. Neither are “Palestinians” unbroken line from ancient Philistines. If my family would decide to go back to Fermanagh from Sligo and Cavan with deeds that proved our family were legitimate owners there, prior to ethnic cleansing, I would be all for them. Regards.

• Smyrnian | Oct 07, 2012, 05:29 PM EDT

  I have zero time for Palestinians or Islamic terrorists. This does not mean I have any opinion on the Israelis one way or another. I suspect it is the same for a lot of people. Many comments here confuse that point.

• butlerreport | Oct 07, 2012, 12:41 PM EDT

  A sad commentary about a harsh reality. Ireland sees the Arabs as the underdogs when in fact it is the Jews, the Israeli's who are more identifiable with Ireland and Ireland's past. lookisrael.com

• Tooreenagrena | Oct 07, 2012, 12:41 PM EDT

  Its this sort of dishonest rubbish that makes people truly hate Zionists. It also is rubbish to pretend that being a Zionist and a jew are the same thing. irish people hate the colonia; mentallity of right wing israeli Zionists and the cruelty, racism and discroimination that leads to blighted lives, appalling injustice and death both physically and mentally for the palestinian people. Put simple the irish hate injustice and bullying by one people against another. They have long experience of it themselves.

• BigDaddy | Oct 07, 2012, 12:23 PM EDT

  Bishop Sean...First, stop believing everything Daniel Pipes says. He is a propagandist for Israel as are many of the neocons. Secondly, if you are referring to the Bible your claim "Israel clearly existed", you might want to read a bit of history. For being how they are, the Jews were dispersed to the four corners of the earth by the Romans. Now, I ask you plainly, if someone showed up at your home with a deed that was almost 2000 years old and said your home was their's because their God gave it to them, what would you say? Lastly, if "having a presence" in a country makes it yours (as you imply with Israel) are you prepared to call Ireland POLAND because of the Polish presence there?

• seamus60 | Oct 07, 2012, 11:53 AM EDT

  I think the only one to gain from such an article is Gerry himself. Whilst many of his supporters adhere to the boycott of Isreali goods on moral grounds, himself and Martin prefer the new found statesman approach of setting up trade delegations with the very same Isreal. Regardless of what they continue to dish out to the Palistinian people. Lets not forget both Adams and Mc Guinness shaking hands with the Isreali Ambassador to Ireland in Stornmont whilst groups like Ogra Sinn Fein were at the gates protesting at the same ambassadors presence.

• Cherball | Oct 07, 2012, 11:06 AM EDT

  I am a descendent of the Cearbhall clan. I also am a descendent of the tribe of Yoseph (Joseph), and all of Erin as well. So who are the Irish to hate there own descendents.

• lokionline | Oct 07, 2012, 10:33 AM EDT

  Many attitudes and ideas about Jerusalem and the "holy land" are irrational and as such are dangerous to all.

• BishopSean | Oct 07, 2012, 09:48 AM EDT

  I again wish to challenge some assumptions. Israel clearly existed prior to 20th century and there was always a presence of Jews in the land, sometimes majority and sometimes minority. Arab Palestine did not exist prior to 20th Century. There was only Southern Syrian Province of Ottoman Empire, prior to British mandate. “Palestine” was word used only by Western Countries. Daniel Pipes wrote “1920; the Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine.” PLO Exec. Committee member Zahir Muhsein stated in Dutch TROUW (1977) “…the creation of a Palestinian state…is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese.” Israel is only flashpoint in Islam’s war against the rest of the world, which it designates “the House of War [harb], as opposed to the House of Islam [Submission, Peace].

• O'Hanlon | Oct 07, 2012, 09:28 AM EDT

  There are fascists in the six counties but they're influenced by British Nazi imagery that revel in the fanaticism of "mad dog, pensioner beating" Adair and all those boot boy glories that have become pin up poster boys for fascist groups throughout Europe. Whilst La Pen registered a whopping 17.9 per cent of the vote at the French election and Golden Dawn are beating up immigrants and becoming cosy, sofa adorning television personalities in Greece some ignorant American hack is busy making laughable comparisons with fascism to the only country in Europe without a sizeable far-right contingent. All the while making that same puerile analogy that equates any stance against the politcial establishment in Israel as on a par with the worst excesses of anti-semitism. Sorry, but anti-Jewish setiment is alot more rife and prevalent in Britain and other European countries. Sorry to burst your bubble but some would describe the victory of Hamas as a signal of what happens when instead of negotiating you inflict misery and relentless suffering on innocent people. Israel are the bullies in this conflict. And not all Jewish people are synonymous with their Government's actions. Irish politicians are criticised all the time without me calling them "anti-Irish" bigots.

• bogsidebunny | Oct 07, 2012, 08:26 AM EDT

  Thankfully someone has the guts to tell the truth. Led and prodded by Sinn fein the Irish sheep are following the anti-Semitic path. I've seen and heard the seething animosity displayed toward Israel and individual Jews. The Irish pray the Palestinians and other Middle-east Arab countries wipe Israel off the map. Currently there are less than 2,000 Jews in Ireland and their numbers are shrinking, while the Muslims can boast of 50,000 and rapidly growing. Ireland's infantile culture is showing its ugly head when they appease and embrace Islamic terrorists but rebuff Israel an idyllic island surrounded by a sea of killer sharks.

• patto69 | Oct 07, 2012, 06:59 AM EDT

  Bit of a guilt trip by a journalist who emanates from a country that were allies of the people who came up with the final solution and who rounded people up to be shipped off to the death camps. Ireland recognises the grief inflicted upon the Jewish people but at the same time it also recognises that does not give the Israeli state the right to persecute the Palestinian people.

• maireadinmelb | Oct 07, 2012, 01:14 AM EDT

  oops and the americans!!

• maireadinmelb | Oct 07, 2012, 01:14 AM EDT

  What a load of rubbish! Israel should live up to the standards set by the UN - as long as it does not, I boycott israeli goods. As Israel continues to remind the world of the genocide imparted on the jewish people it should respect the religious and political freedom of others! That does not make me an anti semite!! The hypocrisy of israel is only slightly less than that of the british!!

• IrishCosmo | Oct 06, 2012, 11:20 PM EDT

  @PATRICK COUNIHAN....couldn't you come up with a story of your own?.... and if not the best you could choose was an idiot like Giulio Metti ??? I am not sure which of you is the bigger fool !!

• DaTruth | Oct 06, 2012, 09:47 PM EDT

  If memory serves me right were not Italians part of the Axis with Hitler loyal to Mussolini. Was not the italian vatican accused of planning and the secret force behind the holocaust and inquistion.

• maryanna | Oct 06, 2012, 06:59 PM EDT

  Clown-nothing more to add.... Waster....

• aloistmartin | Oct 06, 2012, 04:50 PM EDT

  I. suppose just about "Anyone", with some inherent Fear of Political Autonomy and Aegis,( The I.R.A. ? ), ( Hezbollah ? ), ( The PKK ? ), would have some reservations concerning Gerry Adams, Ideological inclinations ? Even Edna Kenny :):):)

• AlanJBall | Oct 06, 2012, 12:46 PM EDT

  I resent the generalisation by this seriously uninformed idiot.the number of people on this island who would not pee on Adams if he was on fire would be surprising.If you must persist in reproducing this kind of second rate journalism ,might I suggest you affiliate yourselves with the onion as opposed to passing yourself off as a serious news service.I have been, I am still pro Israeli.It would be pointless to explain why because your editorial philosophy is hardly up to the discussion.Irish central....Just for your own information,is seen as a source of amusement over here in Ireland.Your stories represent the odd and the amusing side of the American view of Ireland and the world in general.Have a nice day,Oh! and if you bump in to the person from Time who stuck that retard Kenny on the front of the magazine.Take note The general consensus of opinion reflected in so many polls you would not believe is,Kenny is a two faced backstabbing ,gutless ,ass licking turncoat ,who would and does say anything to hang on to power here in Ireland.He is the lapdog who is driving the Irish economy into the ground to satisfy the europhiles and the banks..This may read like a rant but it is not anything of the kind.If you are really interested come over and conduct your own survey.Adams?? he is a national joke.

• hollabackgurl | Oct 06, 2012, 12:02 PM EDT

  What a pompous little waster with his drive-by, scatter shot and poorly articulated charges. We should resist these inciting trolls wherever they pop up.

• Sean Sheehan | Oct 06, 2012, 10:31 AM EDT

  Typical example if Isreali propoganda. Conflating zionism with being Jewish. If one opposes Isreal's human rights violations, and aggressions in the Palestinian Territories one is anti-Semetic. Noam Chomsky should be asked for a quote on the subject.

• Seanmor | Oct 06, 2012, 10:11 AM EDT

  True, many in the West who otherwise are supportive of Israel, strongly object to new Jewish settlements in concourad Palestine gterritory. Besides, many in high places in the Irish state probably disagreed with Professor Abend, a Jewish scholar who made several T.V. appearences in NYC in the '70s in support of NORAID and Irish Reunification. Abend's co-religionist Congressman Wolfe of L.I. was another staunch supporter of the Irish cause at that time and apparently incurred the ire of Dáil members who cared nothing about the plight of Nationalists in the North. Finally, it seems very contradictory of any Partitionist T.D. to agree with Gerry Adams in anything, including his comdemnation of Israel.

• WoundedKnee | Oct 06, 2012, 09:30 AM EDT

  What a stupid slur by this guy. The Limerick "pogrom"? Casualties: Killed 0 Injured 0. If you want to see what a real pogrom was like go back to Tsarist Russia. In fact you'll witness more injury and destruction today if the Israeli nuts go ape in Jerusalem and attack the Palestinian stores like they often do!