“We cannot stand idly by while innocents suffer.”
Dublin, June 27 – The government and citizens of a republic that during the Second World War claimed neutrality but in practice facilitated Nazi bomber aircraft raids on the British Isles by refusing to maintain nighttime blackouts in the capital while knowing that Dublin, on the eastern Irish coast, helped the pilots of those aircraft orient themselves and navigate toward targets in Britain, continued its trend this week of criticizing the Jewish State for its policies and likening it to the Nazis.
Irish officials and NGOs lashed out at Israel again over the weekend and yesterday, following reports that Israeli forces had apprehended a Palestinian minor who had carried a weapon into an Israeli town and planed to murder Jews. Several legislators signed a statement deeming Israel’s actions “fascist” and “at home in Hitler’s Germany,” while human rights activists called on their government to implement a Boycott, Divest, Sanctions policy toward Israel in response.
“It’s imperialism, colonialism, and Nazims all rolled into one,” declared Thissegan O’Helno, a member of the Oireachtas. Ms. O’Helno’s predecessors abetted Nazi air force strikes on England and Wales during WWII.
“We cannot stand idly by while innocent Palestinians suffer,” proclaimed Amnesty International chapter president Kilda Heebs, whose own grandfather purchased extra lamps to place in the family home to illuminate his Dublin residence even more. facilitating German bombing runs on British innocents.
Scholars noted an ironic evolution of Irish sensibilities toward Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland: shared opposition to British rule in Ireland and the pre-Israel territory of Palestine under the British Mandate once engendered sympathy and mutual support for the parallel campaigns to establish independent rule for the respective peoples in both Ireland and Israel. Israel’s first Chief Rabbi, in fact, had served as Chief Rabbi of Ireland before assuming the analogous post in what became Israel: Isaac Herzog, the grandfather and namesake of Israel’s current president. Iconic Irish leader Eamon de Valera voiced sympathy for Jewish aspirations on a number of occasions, and maintained friendly correspondence with Zionist leaders, and the two movements cross-pollinated each other with inspiration.
That relationship soured over the ensuing decades, owing in part to “revolutionary” sensibilities in Ireland that saw, with Soviet encouragement, terrorist alliances with Palestinian guerrillas as more compelling. Such sentiments have yet to fade, with Israel now occupying in many an Irish mind the place of the villain, which, in Second World War terms, to the Irish means the British.
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