Horrid History: troubled past Irish-Jewish relations

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Ireland's iconic Molly Malone was dragged into the Gaza conflict this week when staff at the Israeli embassy in Ireland posted an image on Twitter depicting the fictitious fishmonger clad in a burka beside the slogan "Israel Now, Dublin Next". The doctored photo, one of several which raised the spectre of an Islamic takeover of Europe, was removed amid a storm of protest.

Israel's ambassador dismissed the stunt as a harmless piece of frivolity, stating "we are now in the middle of a war and I have other things to deal with". But it once again highlighted an unsettled relationship that can veer from civil to touchy to tetchy to worse.

Many here would take issue with a line issued from Israel's foreign ministry three years ago that Ireland was "the most hostile" country in Europe towards that State, but rampant anti-semitism has been a recurring feature of modern Irish history.

Grandpa Abe Simpson alluded to this sorry fact in an episode of the cartoon series entitled Homer The Vigilante in which he boasted that he helped run the Irish out of Springfield in 1904. It was a knowing reference to the shameful events that unfolded in Limerick exactly 110 years ago when the city's Jewish population fled a hostile Catholic majority stirred up by the firebrand Redemptorist priest Fr James Creagh.
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1. Jewish Man Assaulted in Marseilles Over Gaza War

A man in his 60s was lightly wounded in an apparent anti-Semitic assault in Marseille.

The assault Tuesday began after the victim drove up to his own garage to discover it had been blocked by a parked car, the local branch of the CRIF umbrella organization of French Jewish communities wrote in its report of the incident.

The attacker showed up after the victim, who wears a kipah, sounded the horn. The attacker began chasing the victim while shouting: “Dirty Jew, this isn’t Gaza, I’m going to kill you and your family.”

http://m.forward.com/articles/204171/jewish-man-assaulted-in-marseilles-over-gaza-war/?

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/113477063

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3. Opposition leader Herzog calls to reinstate plaque on father's Belfast home

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113477255

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4. One in five Irish express anti-Semitic attitudes

A recent global survey found that one in five Irish adults believe in anti-Semitic stereotypes.

The ADL Global 100 survey, conducted by the Anti-Defamation League in 120 countries around the world, surveyed over 53,000 adults. Participants were asked to rate the veracity of a number of stereotypical statements, such as “Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their home country,” “Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust,” and “Jews think they are better than other people.”

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/One-in-five-Irish-express-anti-Semitic-attitudes.html