<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Sunday, Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s Foreign Minister, announced Israel would <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/europe/israel-ireland-embassy-closure-intl/index.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20actions%20and%20antisemitic%20rhetoric,to%20a%20foreign%20ministry%20statement." target="_blank" rel="noopener">close its embassy</a> in Ireland, citing Ireland’s “extreme anti-Israel policies.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm4ppvf7j00083b6mmqmkbdyw@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true" data-analytics-observe="off">“The actions and antisemitic rhetoric used by Ireland against Israel are rooted in the delegitimization and demonization of the Jewish state, along with double standards. Ireland has crossed every red line in its relations with Israel,” Sa’ar said. “Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide according to priorities that also take into account the attitudes and actions of these states toward Israel.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Simon Harris reacted, “This is a deeply regrettable decision from the Netanyahu government. I utterly reject the assertion that Ireland is anti-Israel. Ireland is pro-peace, pro-human rights and pro-International law.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is a deeply regrettable decision from the Netanyahu government. I utterly reject the assertion that Ireland is anti-Israel. Ireland is pro-peace, pro-human rights and pro-International law. <a href="https://t.co/rDga5GpT3u">https://t.co/rDga5GpT3u</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Simon Harris TD (@SimonHarrisTD) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimonHarrisTD/status/1868287660860530973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Despite Harris’ protestations that Ireland’s government is not anti-Israel, the evidence suggests otherwise.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In February 2024, then-Taoiseach Leo Varadkar <a href="https://www.breakingnews.ie/israel-hamas/leo-varadkar-says-israel-has-become-blinded-by-rage-1588287.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced</a> a possible Israeli operation into the Hamas stronghold in Rafah, saying it would be a “gross violation of international law on top of all the other violations of international law which Israel is responsible for.” He continued by ripping Israel for not bowing to the wishes of outsiders, saying, “It’s very, very clear to me though, that Israel is not listening to any country in the world, I don’t even think they’re listening to the Americans anymore. They have become blinded by rage.”</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">In May 2024, only days after Harris <a href="//216EF531-7786-4085-AB1D-6D04E916B092/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>, “I abhor the actions of the Netanyahu government regarding what is happening in the Middle East,” Ireland officially <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/05/28/spain-norway-ireland-officially-recognize-palestinian-state-denmarks-parliament-rejects-proposal/">recognized</a> a “Palestinian state.” Harris stated, “The government recognizes Palestine as a sovereign and independent state and agreed to establish full diplomatic relations between Dublin and Ramallah. We had wanted to recognize Palestine at the end of a peace process. However, we have made this move alongside Spain and Norway to keep the miracle of peace alive.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">On November 7, the Irish parliament <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/11/07/irish-parliament-passes-motion-accusing-israel-genocide-gaza-dublins-hostility-jewish-state-mounts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a non-binding motion attacking Israel, stating, “genocide is being perpetrated before our eyes by Israel in Gaza.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Last week, Ireland <a href="https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/11/738927/Ireland-formally-joins-South-African-genocide-case-Israel-ICJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Looking into the past, in 1996, Ireland finally permitted an Israeli embassy in its country; it was the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1233395830/ireland-pro-palestinian" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last country</a> in the European Union to open an Israeli embassy in its own country.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">As far back as 1945, within days of Adolf Hitler’s suicide on April 30, 1945, Ireland’s Taoiseach Éamon de Valera <a href="https://historyireland.com/de-valera-hitler-the-visit-of-condolence-may-1945/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called on</a> Eduard Hempel, the Nazi minister to Ireland, to express his condolences.&#8221; He <a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-761886" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “I certainly was not going to add to his [Hempel’s] humiliation in the hour of defeat.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In 1943, as news of the slaughter of millions of Jews by the Nazis started leaking out to the world, Oliver J. Flanagan, who years later became the Defense Minister of Ireland, <a href="https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1943-07-09/8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in the Irish Parliament during a debate over the Emergency Powers Act:</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>How is it that we do not see any of these Acts directed against the Jews, who crucified Our Saviour nineteen hundred years ago, and who are crucifying us every day in the week? &#8230; There is one thing that Germany did, and that was to rout the Jews out of their country. Until we rout the Jews out of this country it does not matter a hair&#8217;s breadth what orders you make. Where the bees are there is the honey, and where the Jews are there is the money. </em></p>
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<p>&mdash; Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1868525239992463621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></p></blockquote>

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