Special report:
Irish journalist slams silence of politicians in face of 'group
anti-Semitism' mindset; says that in Ireland either one obeys
anti-Israel orders of left-wing mind-thugs, or one is lynched



The most serious
event of the past week wasn’t related to Prime Time’s libel of Father
Kevin Reynolds, and it wasn’t what Cardinal Sean Brady did or didn’t do
nearly 40 years ago. Far more serious than either for the health of this
Republic – though connected to both by a sanctimonious tissue of lethal
intolerance – was the intimidation of the band Dervish into cancelling a
tour of Israel.



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Dervish’s website was hit by venomous abuse from anti-Israeli
activists, on the instructions of the Irish Palestinian Solidarity
Group. Every bit as sinister as this has been the silence from
politicians and “civil liberties groups”: the exception, of course,
being Alan Shatter, who is Jewish. It was as if the intellectual thugs
of the IPSG were trying to vindicate my recent suggestion that the
largest threat to personal freedom these days comes not from government,
but from single-interest pressure groups.




Tactics and techniques that would be called fascist by liberals if
used against them were at the heart of the campaign against Dervish. For
in the left-liberal culture, certain subjects are beyond the usual
courtesies of a tolerant civilization, and instead may be subjected to
outright bigotry and bullying. The legitimate targets for this
salon-terrorism are the Catholic Church, American Republicans, and of
course Israel.


So Prime Time’s libeling of Father Kevin Reynolds was not just a
bizarre departure from some cultural norm, but actually was its very
quintessence. In other words, when a black African woman and an Irish
Catholic priest contradict one another, it is axiomatic that the white
man must be lying. Indeed, the prevailing dogma rules that the opposite
is quite simply impossible. With that contaminated mind-set at the helm,
no wonder RTE sailed right into the iceberg upon a sunlit noon.




And one can go absolutely nowhere with this culture. It permits no
conversation, no exchange of ideas and no freedom of speech. One
complies, or one is lynched: take your pick. It is the liberal version
of Sharia law: one obeys the instructions of the secular mullahs, and
one hopes to have a peaceful life. But if you think peace results from
the triumph of intolerance, just wait for the 4 am knock on your door –
because sooner or later, the mind-thugs will be coming for you too.



And consider the deeper historical continuity within which the
Boycott Israel campaign stands. This is the state whose Taoiseach went
to offer his condolences on the tragic death of Herr Hitler just weeks
after allied troops had liberated Buchenwald, Belsen and Dachau. This
was the state that became a safe haven for Nazi war-criminals in the
1950s. This was the state where the Mayor of Limerick in 1970 praised
the anti-Jewish boycott in the city in 1903, and far being expelled from
the Labour Party, was re-elected TD for the party.


This was the last state in the European Union to exchange full
diplomatic relations with Israel. This is the state which recently
tolerated the day-long enactment of mock-executions of “Palestinians” by
“Israelis” on its main shopping thoroughfare. No, there might not be
any personal anti-Semitism in this Republic: but group anti-Semitism
seems to have a secure place in the Irish psyche. And the handful of
stupid Jews who are backing the Boycott Israel campaign clearly have
absolutely no idea of the underlying (and no doubt subconscious)
emotions beneath this Israelophobia.




For only such a truly deranged pathogen could single out Israel for a
boycott, while in every other state in the region, there are mass
violations of civil rights by government-authorized murder-gangs. In
Egypt, Islamic mobs have killed hundreds of Christians, devastating
Coptic communities whose roots predate the arrival of Islam. Before the
catastrophic Anglo-French destruction of the Ottoman Empire, the largest
single ethno-religious group in Baghdad were the Jews: and next came
the Christians, who between them outnumbered the Sunnis, Shias and Kurds
together.






Today,
all non-Muslim ethnic groups are facing utter extinction in Iraq. The
Jews are gone, and the few remaining Christians are clinging on by their
eyelids. Across the Arab world, fundamentalism is
triumphant, as “honor-killings” – that truly moronic oxymoron - achieve a
lawful status in Egypt and Jordan, as they soon will – make no mistake -
in Libya and Syria. Women caught in “adultery” – even when raped - and
homosexuals may legitimately be killed by self-appointed executioners.




The one country in the Middle East that does not recognize the
deranged and barbaric precepts of Sharia law is Israel. Yet this is the
one and only state in the region that the Irish Left not merely wishes
to stigmatize, but they want to terrorize the rest of us into
stigmatizing also. And to judge from the abject silence of our
politicians, they seem to be succeeding admirably.

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