Ireland's Raw Bigotry
by Peter Baum • February 26, 2019 at 4:00 am
- The Irish legislation, banning the import of goods from Israeli communities located beyond the 1949 armistice lines, not only coincides ironically with the U.S. Senate passage of a motion to prevent anti-Israel boycotts, but also constitutes a breach of European trade law.
- These Irish "humanitarians" also do not seem to care about the suffering of the inhabitants of the Palestinian Authority and the Gaza Strip, who continue to suffer from large-scale abuse and persecution at the hands of their own despotic leaders.
- Meanwhile, other nations actually guilty of serious human rights abuses, war crimes and ethnic cleansing -- such as Syria, Iran, China, North Korea, Turkey and Russia, to name a few -- are spared Irish indignation and legislation.
- Ireland's legislation appears to be less about actually helping Palestinians to have better lives than an effort to eradicate Israel.
Parliamentarians in the Republic of Ireland are displaying an unprecedented level of hostility towards Israel, unparalleled by that of any other member state of the European Union -- inviting the question about Ireland's long, distasteful history of anti-Semitism. Pictured: Leinster House, seat of the Irish Houses of Parliament. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Parliamentarians in the Republic of Ireland are displaying an unprecedented level of hostility towards Israel, unparalleled by that of any other member state of the European Union -- inviting the question about Ireland's long, distasteful history of anti-Semitism, which clearly predates the frequently used pretext of hating the State of Israel.
The "Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018" -- supported by the Republican and Nationalist political parties of Fianna Fáil, Sinn Fein and Independents -- would ban the import of goods from Israeli communities located beyond the 1949 armistice lines (the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights). The Irish legislation not only coincides ironically with the U.S. Senate passage of a motion to prevent anti-Israel boycotts, but also constitutes a breach of European trade law.
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