My prediction is, when it's proven beyond all doubt that the war in Gaza isn't a genocide, Irish GazaHamas supporters will claim it would have been a genocide if it wasn't for their activism. They probably have the "We prevented a genocide" tee shirts printed already.
John, I'd throw in a very vocal anti-Englishness into the mix in terms of what people have grown comfortable with in recent years. It's not the fact that it wasn't there, there were always idiots in pubs or children using it amongst themselves (as they didn't know any better), but rather media or public personalities (even certain music groups we all know).
Its always been distasteful, but it is its casual acceptance with the way its thrown around. 800 years and all that. If its a joke, I'm really not too sure what is so funny about it today. I was at a comedy gig a month ago and the entire joke for the evening seemed to be "we all hate English people". Derry Girls, which can be funny, had that re-occurring joke, and it wasn't that funny in that context either.
Many a true word is spoken in jest - my question and maybe you can explore, similar to Irelands antisemitism issue - is do we also have an anti-Englishness problem?
We certainly do, and an anti-Protestant problem - Charlie Bird famously got jumped while reporting on an anti-Orange Order march on O'Connell Street and got beaten up for being Protestant. I don't think many people even knew he was Protestant, which shows you how important religion is to our patriot brethren who want to unite the isle and its people. English people, Americans and others are regularly beaten up or killed while walking around O'Connell Street, so anti-black or Asian racism is just the latest eruption in a long history of violent ethnic and religious prejudice which is well recorded in Irish history and crime reports going back centuries...
I have been deploring this for a while now, so I’m heartened to see your criticism of it. Anglophobia has always been there, of course. The difference, it seems to me, is that it has now been adopted by even the middle classes, in tandem with their embrace of Irish natioanlism.
It's telling how the current so-called cultural revival in Ireland includes Kneecap, who are a 'RA band and are essentially The Wolfe Tones with beats. Progress? Change? How? Same tired scapegoating of everything and everyone except themselves. Same with Sally Rooney, Fontaines, etc.- some great writing and music there, but naive, useful idiots for some of the richest, shadiest, most violent and repressive movements in the world. No one's picked up that the attraction of anti-semitism to both the far right and the left is that both are scapegoating movements. Shinners blame everything on the Brits; the far left blames everything on the successful; the far right blames everything on foreigners - and Jews, being both successful and identified as foreign, makes them targets historically for every extreme of right and left, from the commies (to whom Jews are the capitalists) to the fascists (to whom the Jews are the communists). The far left, Islamist and nationalist parties are therefore joining in anti-semitism because they are driven by resentment and a need to blame someone else for their own failures, and they both historically seek catharsis in acts of violence, which we are increasingly seeing brewing in Ireland...
This one hits very close to home. Herbert Park has been a special place for me since I was a child, and as is the way of children, I adopted that hotel as my favourite. That the anti-Jewish virus has reached my inner sanctum leaves me reeling.
I was broadly supportive of Ireland’s progressive turn during the 2010s, but it is sickening to see where that momentum has since brought us. I feel deeply estranged from my own country.
Heather Humphreys found out that many Irish people can't deal with the fact that one-fifth of the island's population isn't Catholic, so how surprising is it that many of the same patriots can't deal with the fact that there are Jews here as well? Way to prove how non-anti-Semitic Ireland is by banning a conference on anti-semitism on the basis that the question of Israel might arise! It's beyond an Irish joke at this stage, given that many of these 'anti-Zionist' activists' supporters are active supporters of some of the most vile, repressive and violent regimes, and many have advocated violent action against visiting sports teams, etc. This situation will regrettably come to a very ugly head before many people recognise what a stain it is on Ireland's politics and reputation abroad...
In Ireland we hear a lot of people claiming that they want "to be on the right side of history"when it comes to their support of all things palestine.In my dealings with Germans for example ,their is a curiosity as to why the Irish are so vocal in their support for Palestine.There is an acceptance that its a regional fued ands
neither side is completely right or wrong. There is no "right side of history." I think the Irish should be more careful of their pronouncements.
In Ireland we hear a lot of people claiming that they want "to be on the right side of history"when it comes to their support of all things palestine.In my dealings with Germans for example ,their is a curiosity as to why the Irish are so vocal in their support for Palestine.There is an acceptance that its a regional fued ands
neither side is completely right or wrong. There is no "right side of history." I think the Irish should be more careful of their pronouncements.
My prediction is, when it's proven beyond all doubt that the war in Gaza isn't a genocide, Irish GazaHamas supporters will claim it would have been a genocide if it wasn't for their activism. They probably have the "We prevented a genocide" tee shirts printed already.
John, I'd throw in a very vocal anti-Englishness into the mix in terms of what people have grown comfortable with in recent years. It's not the fact that it wasn't there, there were always idiots in pubs or children using it amongst themselves (as they didn't know any better), but rather media or public personalities (even certain music groups we all know).
Its always been distasteful, but it is its casual acceptance with the way its thrown around. 800 years and all that. If its a joke, I'm really not too sure what is so funny about it today. I was at a comedy gig a month ago and the entire joke for the evening seemed to be "we all hate English people". Derry Girls, which can be funny, had that re-occurring joke, and it wasn't that funny in that context either.
Many a true word is spoken in jest - my question and maybe you can explore, similar to Irelands antisemitism issue - is do we also have an anti-Englishness problem?
We certainly do, and an anti-Protestant problem - Charlie Bird famously got jumped while reporting on an anti-Orange Order march on O'Connell Street and got beaten up for being Protestant. I don't think many people even knew he was Protestant, which shows you how important religion is to our patriot brethren who want to unite the isle and its people. English people, Americans and others are regularly beaten up or killed while walking around O'Connell Street, so anti-black or Asian racism is just the latest eruption in a long history of violent ethnic and religious prejudice which is well recorded in Irish history and crime reports going back centuries...
I have been deploring this for a while now, so I’m heartened to see your criticism of it. Anglophobia has always been there, of course. The difference, it seems to me, is that it has now been adopted by even the middle classes, in tandem with their embrace of Irish natioanlism.
It's telling how the current so-called cultural revival in Ireland includes Kneecap, who are a 'RA band and are essentially The Wolfe Tones with beats. Progress? Change? How? Same tired scapegoating of everything and everyone except themselves. Same with Sally Rooney, Fontaines, etc.- some great writing and music there, but naive, useful idiots for some of the richest, shadiest, most violent and repressive movements in the world. No one's picked up that the attraction of anti-semitism to both the far right and the left is that both are scapegoating movements. Shinners blame everything on the Brits; the far left blames everything on the successful; the far right blames everything on foreigners - and Jews, being both successful and identified as foreign, makes them targets historically for every extreme of right and left, from the commies (to whom Jews are the capitalists) to the fascists (to whom the Jews are the communists). The far left, Islamist and nationalist parties are therefore joining in anti-semitism because they are driven by resentment and a need to blame someone else for their own failures, and they both historically seek catharsis in acts of violence, which we are increasingly seeing brewing in Ireland...
This one hits very close to home. Herbert Park has been a special place for me since I was a child, and as is the way of children, I adopted that hotel as my favourite. That the anti-Jewish virus has reached my inner sanctum leaves me reeling.
I was broadly supportive of Ireland’s progressive turn during the 2010s, but it is sickening to see where that momentum has since brought us. I feel deeply estranged from my own country.
Go to ATM
Banks charge interest
Very Jewish behavior
Therefore Banks = Jewish
Jews = Israel
Israel = genocidal lunatics.
Therefore my bank is commiting war crimes
Therefore my only recourse is to set fire to the the ATM
#QED
Heather Humphreys found out that many Irish people can't deal with the fact that one-fifth of the island's population isn't Catholic, so how surprising is it that many of the same patriots can't deal with the fact that there are Jews here as well? Way to prove how non-anti-Semitic Ireland is by banning a conference on anti-semitism on the basis that the question of Israel might arise! It's beyond an Irish joke at this stage, given that many of these 'anti-Zionist' activists' supporters are active supporters of some of the most vile, repressive and violent regimes, and many have advocated violent action against visiting sports teams, etc. This situation will regrettably come to a very ugly head before many people recognise what a stain it is on Ireland's politics and reputation abroad...
In Ireland we hear a lot of people claiming that they want "to be on the right side of history"when it comes to their support of all things palestine.In my dealings with Germans for example ,their is a curiosity as to why the Irish are so vocal in their support for Palestine.There is an acceptance that its a regional fued ands
neither side is completely right or wrong. There is no "right side of history." I think the Irish should be more careful of their pronouncements.
In Ireland we hear a lot of people claiming that they want "to be on the right side of history"when it comes to their support of all things palestine.In my dealings with Germans for example ,their is a curiosity as to why the Irish are so vocal in their support for Palestine.There is an acceptance that its a regional fued ands
neither side is completely right or wrong. There is no "right side of history." I think the Irish should be more careful of their pronouncements.