Online attempts to make Ireland seem anti-semitic continue – despite our Constitution being the first in the world to ban anti-semitism

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2. Online attempts to portray Ireland as entirely and miraculously free of anti-semitism continue…

3. So many yanks acting so morally superior in that thread.

   Almost as if they didn’t elect trump twice, almost as if they haven’t been sending people to camps, almost like they haven’t had a branch of the government committing terrorist acts and gunning people down.

   Turning more and more into a failed state day by day.

4. Plenty of comments attempting to analyse the situation but lots of top comments also just clearly trying to push the narrative that Ireland has a particularly dire history of anti-semitism.

   The fact that our constitution included a specific clause to defend Jewish people at a time when anti-Semitism was the norm and skyrocketing across Europe (around WW2) is something we should be proud of.

   Eamon De Valera was also close with Chain Herzog who was an Irish-Israeli who served as the 6th president of Israel and the initial view in Ireland tended to support the creation of Israel as a nation-building thing, seeing it as similar to Ireland creating an independent nation a few decades earlier.

   Thankfully, we now tend to see the full picture and understand the horrors of the Nakba and huge displacement and colonisation that took place (and is taking place).

   But it’s insane to me how unchallenged this biased narrative of ‘Ireland was anti-semitic’ is – while being pushed largely due to our opposition to genocide. Obligatory to highlight that anti-genocide is not anti-zionism which is not anti-semitism.