With no offense meant to your relatives, badmouthing Israel (which 99 times out of 100 happens on a false basis) can’t be described in any other terms than overtly antisemitic.
None taken, they are a product of their environment.
Their view was not held by the Irish Peace-Keepers in Golan whom I met in Tiberius when we were both on holiday from our respective missions (mine was in Sinai).
The relatives have never been on the ground in the mid-east and seen the reality.
as I contemplate the origin and nature of my experiences with Irish antisemitism...I do think it is precisely the rapid Europeanization of the 1990s, and the simultaneous taking up of the PLO cause. The PLO cause was darn near universal...far more popular in universities than the Irish Republican cause....in my experience and observations any way.
And then you fast forward to today...but it all began then, and there, and for those reasons....