Initial reports said the popular author refused any Hebrew translation, but now she says it would be an “honour” — she just refuses to work with an Israeli publisher. This Ben & Jerry’s-style hypocrisy is true to the antisemitism of her native Ireland, as documented in a report that appeared just this week, and is part of a long history.
In the middle of the Holocaust in 1943, Irish politician Oliver J. Flanagan advocated ‘routing the Jews out of this country’ in his first speech as a Member of Parliament. He continued to serve as a member of Parliament, including a decade as its most senior member, until a few months prior to his death in 1987.
In 2015, Ami Horowitz filmed Irish businessmen happy to benefit from slave labor in Sudan, Iran, and North Korea, yet committed to boycotting Israel for “humanitarian” reasons.
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And just this month, journalist David Collier released a report exposing pervasive Irish Jew-hatred lasts until today, from leading government figures to social media influencers in cities and towns across the island.
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