One of the more bizarre artifacts of the Israel-Hamas War—which Hamas started just over two years ago, when it attacked, murdered, and kidnapped more than 1,000 Israeli civilians—is the exposure of the rabid and rampant antisemitism among the Irish, especially Irish Catholics. One might expect that Catholics—whose popes have denounced antisemitism off and on since the sixth century and have clearly and repeatedly condemned it since the 1930s—would be understanding of the Jewish people’s plight and willing to listen to Pope Pius XI’s admonition that “Antisemitism is inadmissible. Spiritually, we are all Semites.” In the case of many Irish Catholics, however, one would be wrong.
Throughout the recently ended war, then-Irish President Michael Higgins, a nasty little troll of a man, never missed an opportunity to attack Israel or disparage “Zionism.” Like most of his fellow antisemites, he tried to cloak his loathing of Jews in political terms, but also like the rest, he failed miserably. It was always clear that he hated Jews and used “Israel” and “Zionism” to try (unsuccessfully) to appear less grotesque. While never bothering to take formal action against the Hamas terrorists who started the war and intentionally targeted civilians in the most horrific ways possible, just six months after Israel’s retaliation began, the Irish government announced its intention to join South Africa (of all countries) in its case at the United Nations’ International Court of Justice, charging Israel with genocide. Eleven months ago exactly, the government did precisely that, officially filing its declaration of intervention “in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip.” While many nations loathe Israel and many peoples detest the Jews, only the Irish Catholics and the corrupt remnants of the African National Congress are brash and hateful enough to accuse them of crimes against humanity before the court created 80 years ago, in the wake of the Holocaust, specifically to ensure that Jews were never targeted again.
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