Posted on 05/31/2018 10:44:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Israel has lodged an official protest to Ireland over the invitation of Leila Khaled, a convicted Palestinian plane hijacker who has continued to advocate violence against Israelis, to speak at a teachers’ club in Dublin belonging to the Irish National Teachers’ Organization.
Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan sent the protest letter to Dublin’s education minister, Richard Bruton, demanding that he cancel Khaled’s appearance, Hadashot TV reported Thursday.
Khaled is scheduled to speak via video link in a public talk hosted at the club by the socialist groups Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland and Lasair Dhearg.
“It is hard to understand why Ireland, which has also experienced many terror attacks, would agree to honor a terrorist at an educational event, who expresses solidarity with terror attacks and views them as a legitimate tool,” Erdan wrote. …
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What, does the IRA need a pep talk?
While legal in the U.S. before there, with us, at least it was foisted on the country by the Supreme Court. People didn't run out to the polls to vote for it.
Time for Jews to avoid going to Ireland and England until sanity returns, if ever.
Ireland has become one of the most anti-Semitic nations in the world. Part of it is the IRAs connection with the PLO, and shared terror training camps, but former president Mary Robinson, a virulent Jew-hater, has also something to do with it.
Years ago it actually shocked me to find out the IRA was cozy with the PLO.
It’s one reason I’ve always been leery of the IRA.
There are more reasons than that. The IRA were the original communist revolutionaries in 1916, don’t forget.
A large part is the rise of the EU in power and Ireland’s ever-growing subservience to it. The country never used to be that way. My late father could be openly Jewish while living and working there; these days he most likely could not.
Thanks for pointing that out. My view of them was picked up after watching their antics in contemporary news reports. I was unaware of their historic mistakes as well.
Layla!
She’s back!
The Irish mostly hate the English, of course. There was actually some sympathy for Germany during WWII. Does that have anything to do with it?
“What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need; self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money. Very well, then! Emancipation from huckstering and money—consequently, from practical, real Judaism—would be the self-emancipation of our time.” …The prophet of leftism dogmatizes the old stereotype. The EU’s influence over Ireland is Marxism in effect, albeit soft Marxism at first; the soft, gradual approach is actually the closest to the way Marx and Engels wanted things (since their writings advised a takeover of the bourgeois property “by degrees”), but the end is the same.
— Karl Marx
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