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Re: Emily Hand - This was immediately clarified as Eli Cohen taking offense at common phraseology to make anti-semitic strawmen as per usual.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clwpz157v1go

The rest is just Zionist alternate-reality ranting, but I'll sign-off by pointing out that our Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence from 2011 to 2014 is Jewish and worked in Kibbutz' in Israel during his teens

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

Chaim Herzog, sixth president of Israel from 1983 to 1993, was born in Belfast and educated in Dublin

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

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, his father and a fluent Irish speaker, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, 1921 to 1936. From 1936 until his death in 1959, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine, and subsequently Israel after its creation in 1948.

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

And finally the protagonist of James Joyce's Ulysses - Leopold Bloom - is Jewish, in what is effectively our national narrative.

A list of Irish jews, and? Einstein was a German Jew so suddenly Nazi Germany is ok? Half of Israel's initial PMs and Presidents were from Russia, does it make it a heaven for Jews?

The Irish were actually supportive of the founding of the State of Israel as there was a common bond as persecuted people. The Irish state did caution against the partition of Palestine due to the lived effect of the relatively recent partition of Ireland. It was only when the persecution of those that identified as Palestinian began, that Irish opinion swung against the actions of the State of Israel. https://www.theirishstory.com/2013/01/23/a-long-and-oddly-in...

Interesting article that is peppered with half-truths to drive some sort of agenda on Irish nationalism. I see parallels with Ukrainian nationalism, fighting for independence from Russia/USSR they sided with Nazis and as it common with national movements blamed Jews for everything and proceeded to slaughter Jews during WWII. Irish after fighting against British sided with Arab colonialism and are helping slaughter jews everywhere.

Sorry, what?! Everywhere? If you're referring to October 7th, the Irish do not condone what happened and were appalled. And to be clear, the Irish have only ever blamed the British for what the British did in Ireland.

Well, outside of TikTok sickos and other woke lunatics, everyone was horrified on Oct7. Even the most antisemitic people were after watching the live video transmissions. So I believe you that the Irish people were appalled. And frankly, people love dead jews and love to pity them. But as you yourself wrote, the Irish then took solidarity with the butchers and rapists because they are "persecuted people"...

What ridiculously self-serving drivel. By that logic there is hardly any place in Europe you should be visiting since most at one time or another were led by fascistic governments. Spain fought a civil war to get rid of that garbage. Your opinion is probably not shared by many Jews who recently obtained Spanish citizenship as descendents of those who fled the country in the past.

Wait till you find out about the American stance to Jewish refugees during World War 2.

Spanish civil war was in the 30's and officialy Spain was fascist until 1975... But is it a normal country now? When PM gives a speech and laments that too bad they don't have nuclear weapons, otherwise they would have nuked Israel... something is rotten in the little kingdom of theirs. Longing for the times of the Inquisition, when they could freely torture jews, I bet.

Glad you're counting decades now. Spain was fascist until 1975 against the will of its people by being propped up by the US/West because of the Cold War. The party that the fascists stamped out in the 30s is the party that is government now. You're arguing in bad faith by trying to connect their current stance on Israel to a dictatorship they didn't elect or choose half a century ago. Greece had a military dictatorship til 1974 and East Germany was ruled by the Soviet Union till 1989.

Israel is not synonymous with Jews no matter how much you wish it to be so.

>PM gives a speech and laments that too bad they don't have nuclear weapons, otherwise they would have nuked Israel

The exact quote is:

"Spain does not have nuclear bombs, aircraft carriers or large oil reserves. We alone cannot stop the Israeli offensive. But that doesn't mean we are going to stop trying."

He is claiming that in order to be able stop an ethnofascist state that itself has nukes and is committing war crimes in real time, a country would have to be a global superpower. And since Spain is not a global superpower, Spain "alone cannot stop the Israeli offensive".

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