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It’s a statement against a state, but the voices behind it are really referring to Jews in general. Their remark about hostages shows it. Why are there hostages in Gaza is due to actions from Hamas, not Israel.

More importantly ask yourself. Why is it that there’s not any meaningful quantity of Jews in Ireland, even though there’s larger numbers of Jews historically in nearby countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ireland

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Ireland is a small windswept island country, which until the late 20th century had very little migration of any time (apart from a few cases of forced plantation). The vast majority of the country white Christians with a small population of Jews and even fewer ethnicities from out side of Europe. This Irish as a whole are not anti-semitic, but they are appalled by the fate that has befallen the people of Palestine.

It sounds as though you're trying to imply that there's some particular reason why there's not many Jews in Ireland, but it's largely historical. I'm in England and I haven't encountered many Jewish people over here despite us having far more cultural mixing than Ireland does.

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