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Re: Emily Hand - This was immediately clarified as Eli Cohen taking offense at common phraseology to make anti-semitic strawmen as per usual. https://www.bbc.c
by piltdownman 1y ago
Re: Emily Hand - This was immediately clarified as Eli Cohen taking offense at common phraseology to make anti-semitic strawmen as per usual.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clwpz157v1go https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clwpz157v1go
The rest is just Zionist alternate-reality ranting, but I'll sign-off by pointing out that our Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence from 2011 to 2014 is Jewish and worked in Kibbutz' in Israel during his teens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shatter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shatter
Chaim Herzog, sixth president of Israel from 1983 to 1993, was born in Belfast and educated in Dublin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Herzog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Herzog
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, his father and a fluent Irish speaker, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, 1921 to 1936. From 1936 until his death in 1959, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine, and subsequently Israel after its creation in 1948.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_HaLevi_Herzog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_HaLevi_Herzog
And finally the protagonist of James Joyce's Ulysses - Leopold Bloom - is Jewish, in what is effectively our national narrative.
- myth_drannon 1y agoA list of Irish jews, and? Einstein was a German Jew so suddenly Nazi Germany is ok? Half of Israel's initial PMs and Presidents were from Russia, does it make it a heaven for Jews?