Staatspapiere: Jüdische Gemeinde wies Behauptung zurück, Irland sei vor 80 Jahren antisemitisch gewesen

Would they do the same now?

Never underestimate the power of the Israeli state – and by extension its global network of advocacy groups – to use propaganda and to [weaponise antisemitism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaponization_of_antisemitism).

Antisemitism was weaponised even prior to the foundation of Israel. The first major example was after Zionist terror groups contaminated Palestinian wells with typhoid (biological warfare) in 1948, known as [Operation Cast Thy Bread](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cast_Thy_Bread). The Jewish Agency for Palestine strongly denied the operation and sought to block further investigations by accusing the Arab states of “antisemitic incitement”.

The strategy was further used in the following decades to the point we’ve reached now, where this year Biden introduced legislation in the US that uses a controversial definition of antisemitism that conflates any criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Germany has similar legislation. This US legislation was criticised by hundreds of Jewish academics [in an open letter to Biden](https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4651826-jewish-professors-biden-antisemitism-legislation/).

Half of the states in the US have also introduced legislation to make the BDS (Boycott Divest Sanction) movement illegal.

Israel’s propaganda / hasbara strategy has had huge investment and its global diplomacy efforts have been a pillar of their state policy for decades, especially after they invaded Lebanon in 1982 and got really bad press due to their facilitation of the [Sabra and Shatila massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre).

Good documentary to watch is [The Occupation of the American Mind](https://odysee.com/@Hayderia110:0/The-Occupation-of-the-American-Mind-(original-84-minute-version)_Full-HD:b), about how these efforts were focused on shaping public opinion in the US, using the media. Many of the same lines are repeated today eg the logic-flipping classic “Israel has a right to defend itself”.

Closer to our shores, British journalist Owen Jones did a deep dive long read into the pro-Israel [bias of the BBC’s reporting on Gaza](https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage).

To learn more about how young Jewish people are brainwashed into this ideology, I recommend watching the documentary [Israelism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQHUro6u6Kc), about a young Jewish American woman who saw through the workings of this machine and became a pro-Palestine activist with other Jewish Americans.

The more you learn about Israel, the scarier it gets. I await the false accusations of “antisemitism”. Apparently objecting to the mass killing of children means…you don’t like Jewish people? We really are through the looking glass.

Some actual history: Ireland was not antisemitic, or ant izionist 80 years ago. It was actually aligned with the zionist militias at the time. With Belfast born Chaim Herzog, later Israel’s president, being closely aligned with the IRA and Sinn Fein.

Both the zionist and Irish militias fought the Brits and saw themselves as comrades. Zeev Jabotinski, the head of the terrorist organization Irgun (who later became the current governing party of Israel, Likud, headed by Natanyahu) came to Dublin to learn how to fight the Brits. [Jabotinsky, while head of Irgun, visited Dublin for secret instruction from Robert Briscoe in how the tactics of guerrilla warfare that had proven so successful during the Irish War of Independence could also be used against the continued rule of the British Empire over the Mandate of Palestine.[32]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Briscoe_(politician))

So we know that 80 years ago, Ireland was supportive of even the most extreme groups of zionist. When did it change? During the troubles.

During the troubles, and with the background of the cold war at the time, the PIRA and Sinn Fein fought against the Brits again. At that time, the world was neatly aligned into first, second and third world countries. First world countries were aligned with the US, second world countries aligned with the USSR and third world countries aligned with neither.

Ireland, because of the conflict with the UK, was a second world country, along with Palestine. Both the PLO and the PIRA trained together in Libya under Ghadaffi. It’s at this point, in the late 70’s to early 80’s that Ireland turned to anti zionist views.

I’m not saying Ireland is antisemitic today, but it is definitely anti zionist and anti Israeli, and it is important to know when and how that shift happened.

I wonder will this get as much attention as DeValera and Irish neutrality in WW2. Methinks not.