I am in excellent company in rejecting the central conflation: criticism of the Israeli state’s conduct is not, by default, hostility towards Jews or Judaism. Let me be clear: Irish Jewish people are not responsible for any government’s actions, and they should never be subjected to intimidation, conspiracy tropes, or collective blame. Antisemitism is real, corrosive and where it occurs, must be confronted without euphemism. But it is instructive to see how readily the charge of “antisemitism” is deployed as a shield to shut down scrutiny of what many Irish people see, in real time, as unconscionable: the mass killing...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
