Events since October 7th have precipitated a rare moment of national coherence in Ireland. The rights and wrongs of Dublin’s Palestinian stance aside, Gaza has touched a deep racial nerve in Western Europe’s only post-colonial nation, unifying and electrifying the Republic’s otherwise sandpaper dry multilateral worldview.
For all the inherent Third Worldism, Ireland’s pro-Palestinian solidarity is not mere pink-haired moral outrage but a deep national impulse. For Ireland, to break ranks with London, Washington, or Brussels over Gaza is not weakness—it is the expression of a moral will still connected to ethnic form.
From Kneecap, Lankum to Sally Rooney, Gaza has clarified minds as to the friend-foe distinction Irish people face as Zionist cancel culture reveals rank hypocrisy against institutions which challenge non-existent systems of white supremacy while turning a blind eye to Israeli outrages on the Strip.
Gaza and its fallout have done more to rally Irish minds against EU federalism and threats to remove our national foreign policy veto than years of spadework by eurosceptics. Trademarking a type of ‘sovereignty through solidarity’ unique to the Irish nation within Europe and a selling point in relations with the Global South,
Contrary to very dud takes by British Zionists, the Irish do not support Palestine out of fashion or woke ideology, but because the memory of being made stateless, starved, and erased still flickers beneath the surface.
That is not to say Ireland’s Palestinian outlook is without criticism. Certainly, the events of October 7th have made the Irish electorate no less naive about the risk of racialised radical Islam, with the risk remaining of refugee flow to Ireland courtesy of solidarity networks. Ireland’s vocal support for Palestine may feel righteous, but it lacks the means or will to act decisively in geopolitical terms. To act solely from trauma memory is to become a narcissistic monument to oneself, noble, yes, but sterile.
From northern republicans to Irish diplomats at the UN plinth, Palestine has become a symbolic substitution for actual Irish sovereignty and ethnic assertion. A conflict that mirrors past Irish struggles but does not resolve the present Irish fate.
A neutral republic that condemns but cannot defend, that protests but cannot enforce, is already an ethical relic, not a geopolitical actor. The Ditch and other leftists may lament Israeli spies on the Shelbourne road or decry IDF armaments passing through our airspace, but lack the drive to secure a functional state that could stop both phenomena and would certainly. The Irish perspective on Palestine is full of heart but lacking in strategy. Israel, to its credit, has built up a reserve it can mobilise at a moment’s notice to defend and expand its frontiers.
Any enactment of the Occupied Territories Bill requires an understanding of the backlash from corporate America as well as a proper break from EU single market constraints, with a clear cost-benefit analysis before, during, and after.
Demilitarisation and neutrality can only go so far when it comes to challenging zionism morally and politically. To sustain a robust, sovereign, and principled anti-zionist stance, particularly one that withstands pressure from major powers like the US and European Commission, Ireland would need to build out a sovereign infrastructure that combines legal autonomy, intelligence capacity, economic resilience, and cultural legitimacy.
None of the current pro-Palestine outlets offer such a sovereign manifesto and thus should be viewed in that light. Sovereignty is not to be scoffed at; the difference between a posturing Irish position that thinks of itself as more important than it is and something that can uphold the moral imperative of anti-zionism.
Ridiculous! You claim Ireland supports the Palestinians because of some wild claims over Irish history. Irish people were stateless? No, they had an independent country in the late 1700s – and abused that by inviting French troops in to threaten the England. Starved? They may have been starving, but they weren’t starved. A potato blight. Drop the sick victimhood.
“They may have been starving, but they weren’t starved.”
I think the argument goes that land evictions and other discriminatory laws in favour of protestant settlers contributed to a state of food insecurity among the Irish peasantry, which was brought to a crisis by either weather events (in 1741) or disease (in 1845.) Population growth was also a major driver of scarcity.
However, I think I missed the bulletin where a million emaciated Palestinian corpses were dropping dead from malnutrition, so I think these comparisons may be overstated. Also, Hamas make the provos look like gentlemen by comparison, and ~40% of Israel’s population are Mizrahi jews who are recently indigenous to the middle east. Where do they go home to, exactly?
Oh we’re very grateful John Bull we know you had only the noblest of intentions in Ireland. It never would have crossed your minds to use starvation as a tool to clear out the land.
You say “Hamas make the provos look like gentlemen by comparison”. The Provisional IRA were not gentlemen, but Hamas did not seek to kill civilians in Israel, but to kidnap them for exchange for the many Palestinians held without trial for decades in Israeli prisons. Kidnapping civilians is also a crime and unjustifiable as such, of course. But civilians killed during the Oct 7th raid were largely killed by Israeli weaponry, as confirmed in Haaretz and the Israeli press (Google the Hannibal Doctrine and look up the Jewish-run Grayzone on Youtube). The Mizrahi Jews have nowhere to go home? Look. I’m not arguing for the deportation of the Jews. There is a logical slip there, where you sought to attack a straw man of your own invention. I think as the populations are 50:50, they should divide the land 50:50, giving Palestine not just Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but other Arab-majority terroritories as well.
So Hamas didn’t want to kill civilians on October 7th…
The German girl stripped and spat on as she was paraded around Gaza in the back of a truck was my imagination or Israeli disinformation ?
The journalists who went to the Israeli screening of the cameras brought in by Hamas members who were killed were looking at doctored footage of Hamas shooting at cars, young people who were at the festival and machine gunning houses ?
The hamas member using the phone of a dead Israeli he had killed to call his mother and father and boast of the numbers of civilians he had killed was also disinformation?
If you really believe they didn’t want to kill civilians then you should follow the rainbows and find the leprechaun on the pot of gold and get ready to write your letter to Santa.
I already responded to this comment, but some reason my reply isn’t showing up, so I’ll try to reiterate briefly.
“Hamas did not seek to kill civilians in Israel”
This is a lie. Hamas themselves don’t even dispute the massacres.
https://checkyourfact.com/2023/11/08/fact-check-israel-civilians-oct-7/
“I think as the populations are 50:50, they should divide the land 50:50”
The Palestinians were already offered 3/4 of the available territory by the League of Nations back in 1922 (which went on to become the Kingdom of Jordan), and 1/2 the remaining land was offered under the UN partition plan back in 1947. The Arabs rejected this agreement on both occasions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/175e3a2/territorial_changes_in_israel_and_palestine/#lightbox
Hamas have made it very clear and very public that their organisation exists to destroy Israel, which means there is no way to ‘free Palestine’ that doesn’t involve either (A) removing Hamas from power or (B) destroying the state of Israel.
There are aspects of the Israeli war effort that probably deserve critique, but until the Irish absorb the reality that Palestinians are led by mad irredentist fanatics then our pro-Palestinian position will be at best pointless and at worst abetting an actual genocide.
I already responded to this comment, but I think the auto-filter doesn’t allow hyperlinks for some reason, so I’ll try to reiterate briefly.
“Hamas did not seek to kill civilians in Israel”
This is a lie. You’re basically regurgitating Hezbollah propaganda, but Hamas themselves don’t even dispute the massacres.
checkyourfact.com /2023 /11 /08 /fact-check-israel-civilians-oct-7/
“I think as the populations are 50:50, they should divide the land 50:50”
The Palestinians were already offered 3/4 of the available territory by the League of Nations back in 1922 (which went on to become the Kingdom of Jordan), and 1/2 the remaining land was offered under the UN partition plan back in 1947. The Arabs rejected this agreement on both occasions.
http://www.reddit.com /r /MapPorn /comments /175e3a2 /territorial_changes_in_israel_and_palestine/#lightbox
Hamas have also made it very clear and very public that their organisation exists to destroy Israel, which means there is no way to ‘free Palestine’ that doesn’t involve either (A) removing Hamas from power or (B) destroying the state of Israel.
There are aspects of the Israeli war effort that probably deserve critique, but until the Irish absorb the reality that Palestinians are led by mad revanchist fanatics then our pro-Palestinian position will be at best pointless and at worst abetting an actual genocide.
“….the Irish do not support Palestine out of fashion or woke ideology,”
…..really??? only for the constant war-dancing on the streets of Dublin etc by ShariaFein and other Islamo-gauche entities, with RTE cameras to record all, most Irish would not know or care……soccer, cider, sex is top billing on the “Irish Mind”.
“…have made the Irish electorate no less naive about the risk of racialised radical Islam,”
Are you sure?? the current Cead Mile Failte given to this religious/political group in the 21st Cent. Plantation of Ireland project, by the Irish (not just political class and some catholic clerics…), has given Islam (radical or “moderate”) an equal standing in the minds of most Irish in the New Ireland.
The politicians are giving the welcome to the Muslims and other darkies, definitely not “most Irish”.
As far as I can tell, and as confirmed by opinion polls, but – mysteriously – not election results, “most Irish” want massive Remigration now.
Dodgy refugees in Ireland know that the Palestinians have a good reputation, so they sometimes pretend to be Palestinian.
One action we could take, without breaching any UN or EU rules, is to simply pass a law forbidding any person holding, or entitled to hold, an Israeli passport (even if they have also an Irish passport) from entering or living in Ireland. Unless they have a certificate of good behaviour issued by the Palestinian Ambassador, of course.
The threatening remarks about Ireland by Israeli politicians are ample justification for declaring war on the Israeli state or even just a simple State of Emergency. Obviously, we can’t fight them, but a declaration of war or Emergency would allow us to perfectly legally seize all Israeli property and intern all Israelis living here, without worrying about what the EU thinks. Declaring war or Emergency is a national competence.
We could release our Israeli hostages in return for substantial cash payments. 2,000 Israelis at a million bucks a head? It would work out a lot cheaper than what they have spent on trying to release their Gaza hostages.
What “threatening remarks about Ireland” do you think would warrant abducting a thousand Israeli citizens and holding them hostage after seizing all their assets? Let alone declaring war?
There is the minor problem that even the leading ‘far right’ parties of the continent are vocally pro-Israel, which would make coalition-building with other nationalists rather difficult for the forseeable future.
Ben-Gvir, Pollard and some other politician have made comments about sending the Palestinians to Ireland. Plus lots of nasty comments from Israeli academics, businesspeople, rabbis, etc. That is very threatening, imho.
The Israelis or their proxies have killed maybe a dozen Irish soldiers in Lebanon over the years.
Ethnic Israelis in high places in the 26 are doing some awful and indeed treacherous things. There is a big article on the topic over at unz.com, a site run by a Jewish chap, as it happens.
A state of emergency would allow us to legally arrest them and shake them down for mega fines. Unless they’ve got a cert from the Palestinian Ambassador, of course.
It’s true that some other nationalist groups are polite to the Israelis. That is only through fear. In private they long for the day the Palestinians get the right to return.
If we Irish succeed in detaining and deporting our dancing Israelis, the rest of Europe will be inspired to join the great detain and deport dance!
“Ben-Gvir, Pollard and some other politician have made comments about sending the Palestinians to Ireland”
I think it’s quite interesting that you consider Palestinians in Ireland an existential threat, but also think they should move en masse into Israel.
“It’s true that some other nationalist groups are polite to the Israelis. That is only through fear.”
What do you think other nationalist parties have to fear from Israel that we don’t? Is the Samson Option a real thing that just doesn’t apply to Ireland, or something?
Muslim children dying in China in concentration camps and no marches outside Chinese embassies or proposed boycott of Chinese goods.
Muslim children dying in Sudan and Yeman and nothing
Isreal get involved and suddenly Muslim children dying is headline news and boycotts organised along with marches and campus demonstrations.
How come none about the Uyghurs in china? 1m Muslims in concentration camps and silence.
Seems a touch antisemetic to me. It’s only the fact that Israel are involved that riles people up. Should be horror at all these deaths not just the ones Israel are involved in.
Imagine Ireland has 100k people killed by Britain and 1m by another country and yet we only show our anger to the British….
Please write in plain English so us plebs can understand what you’re trying to say!
MORAL CONSCIENCE, SOVEREIGNTY…you cannot find what Irish People did not lose
IRELAND LOST LEADERSHIP AND EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING GOVERNANCE, NOT SNAKES
It has never been highlighted or illustrated more in all of Irish History than today 2025 when
a faux leader and wingman, ironically called Taeoseach and Tanaiste,Martin and Muppet,of a ROGUE IRISH GOVERNMENT, declared to the world that lSRAEL IS GUILTY OF GENOCIDE, but
Opposed the call to STOP SELLING ISRAELI WAR BONDS…which adds to their diluted bill on the Occupied Territories in Palestine…having LODGED in Leinster House since 2018.
Which NOW makes them complicit to WAR CRIMES…with the backing of YOU, ELECTORATE.
INNOCENT BLOOD ON ALL IRISH HANDS,,,no they did not get that Mandate from You, BUT
…wake the fu.k up, you cannot bury your heads in the sand, you cannot take sides, you cannot ignore it now, you cannot make it go away,…and as much as Ireland has more than enough problems at home on its plate because of the same useless bastards involved in an
IRISH ROGUE GOVERNANCE…the buck stops at you, whether you like it or lump it, Grow Up
ITS A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS….COULD BE YOURS AGAIN DONT FORGET…FU.K POLITICS
Opposing Israel’s actions in Gaza is the best thing the Republic of Ireland has ever done – wherever the intention is to make a historically inaccurate point about Irish history or not. I watched the Irish presentation before the International Court of Justice, and agreed with every word stated by the lady presenting it. Britain is a disgrace, supporting Israel to the hilt because the UK government believes that it gains influence in the world by following every jot and tittle of US foreign policy. Actually, the UK should take a leaf out of Ireland’s book and become a neutral country and abandon ALL of these wars for good.
I meant “whether” not “wherever”. I don’t know why I wrote that gibberish.
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Irish Israeli Governments Immoral Conscience…Lying Paddywackery
Israeli Irish War Bonds are funding Gaza Genocide, 22 new illegal Israeli
Settlements and funding Israeli Military attacks on Irish Peacekeepers.
Lying out both sides of their mouth, accusing Israel of Gaza Genocide
BUT
Selling Israeli War Bonds only in Ireland for EU benefit…spineless hypocrisy…over 600+ days of slaughtering the innocent…Everyday
It’s either for or against Genocide, for or against Peace, you do not get a chance to play both sides, both sides of the argument, both teams in a game…WAR OR PEACE…YES OR NO…TRUTH OR LIES..Fencesitter.
Telling the World through foreign policy that you condem Genocide
BUT
Telling the Irish through national policy that you support War Bonds
you already pulled this stunt in Irish Parliament by giving coalition
partners in government SPEAKING TIME IN OPPOSITION .
Yes, the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing…but in the
Rogue Irish Government case …your never smart enough gobshites.
There is no analysis to this, right or wrong…get the fu.k out traitors.
but sovereignty is being scoffed at by mehole,criticised as being backward & old fashioned,must be gotten rid of.i think Irelands stance on Palestine is being authorised by brussels,setting us up to accept palestinian refugees when the jews succeed.
“setting us up to accept palestinian refugees when the jews succeed.”
This seems to be the plan: Here Paddy, since you love Palestinians so much, here’s a million refugees.
Morgan said: I think it’s quite interesting that you consider Palestinians in Ireland an existential threat, but also think they should move en masse into Israel.
No. But a Palestinian can only leave Palestine if the Israelis let him leave. Sad to say, some of the Palestinians in Ireland are traitors who work for the Israelis.
Morgan asks:”What do you think other nationalist parties have to fear from Israel that we don’t? Is the Samson Option a real thing that just doesn’t apply to Ireland, or something?”
Israeli nukes can only reach as far as London! If they used planes to bomb us, no European country would
allow them overfly. Much as the UK/Euro are scared of the Israelis, they are more scared of us. They all know what happened to Mountbatten (King Charles’ uncle) and how Mick Collins killed high level legitimate targets in their own homes, in front of their wives and children.
Israelis, and people who are entitled to Israeli passports, who live in Ireland are under a lot of pressure. Their work colleagues and neighbours regularly mention the genocide their State is guilty of.
Simon Lewis reports that in a conversation about something else, the Irish person will frequently urge him to eff off and go kill some Palestinian babies.
Did you hear the joke about the Jewish blood libel? It’s not a joke, it’s true!
The Irish make jokes about the four million Jews killed in Auschwitz, saying how surprising it is that the renowned German craftsman were unable to make airtight doors on the gas chambers. That’s not “denying” anything, just joking about it.
The way to deal with fear of the Israelis is to make fun of them. And carry a whip. What did the man from Baile Galilee say about the nest of vipers?