Alan Shatter: Ireland lags behind the rest of Europe in fighting anti-semitism

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  1. >Instead Sinn Féin’s priority is to demonise and delegitimise the world’s only Jewish state.

    Ya Sinn Féin, creating an ethnostate is good, actually.

    I do always think it’s funny that Alan Shatter joined a party that allowed Oliver J Flanagan in it (Charlie Flanagan’s dad), given that Oliver J’s maiden speech in the Dáil, given when he was 23 in 1943, included an unambiguous statement of his views on Jewish people:

    >There is one thing that Germany did, and that was to rout the Jews out of their country. Until we rout the Jews out of this country it does not matter a hair’s breadth what orders you make. Where the bees are there is the honey, and where the Jews are there is the money. I do not propose to detain the House further. I propose to vote against such Orders and actions, and I am doing so on Christian principles.

    >https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1943-07-09/8/

  2. What a load. The title starts with Ireland not doing enough and the turns halfway into an attack an SF. The last few paragraphs talk about Mary lou and how SF is calling out Israel as an apartide state is a bad thing.

  3. I’m not sure how prevalent antisemitism in Ireland is but I’m pro Palestine and used to attend meetings and rallies.

    The vast, vast majority of the people were pro Palestine as they were revolted by the actions of Israel but I met a few who were full on antisemitic.

  4. Remember that time Mossad used forged Irish passports to carry out a broad daylight assasination of a Palestinian general in a Dubai hotel? And the Israeli Ambassador pretty much told the Government to get fucked and that they’d do it again if they wanted? Alan Shatter was very quiet then.

    He was very vocal two years later as Minister of Defence when he ignored the UN’s accusations of war crimes by Israel and went and spent €14M on Israeli spy planes and unmanned surveillance equipment, telling anyone who raised a question to stop being so anti Semitic…

  5. He is just fighting for his people. You can understand that. Pity he doesn’t move to Israel to represent them better.

  6. Alan Shatter is a supremacist, look at his twitter. Shame on the Irish Times for publishing his rhetoric.

    He recons its acceptable to bomb a hospital and call it self defense.

  7. What a fucking idiot. The majority of Irish people couldn’t care less what colour or creed you are. You could be a Jedi Satanist for all i care. We do however take issue with innocent people being carpet bombed and children being murdered or maimed by Snipers. then there’s the phosperous and illegal occupation. The list of war crimes goes on and on. Fuck Isreal and that Shatter dickhead.

  8. And Alan Shatter is a Zionist who supports a genocidal, supremacist state. He can fuck right off with this rhetoric.

  9. He only has a problem with racism and hate speech when it relates to Jewish people. Otherwise he’s like those gay mega church pastors that spend their lives condemning homosexuality.

    Inferring that Israel represents all Jewish people is very condemning of Jewish people.

  10. While I don’t think a Jew would be discriminated because of their religion, there definitely is a problem with the rhetoric of some people making out that Israelis wanting their own country is the same as Nazism and thinking that Israel should just stop existing.

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