Sir, – In the week the outrageous comments of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern received necessary attention, a regular commentator on these pages, Oliver Sears, was again given considerable space to promote the falsehood that Ireland is racist toward the Jewish people. It is not. Mr Sears’s article (“Boycott is a pernicious strategy silencing Jews, Israelis and Palestinians,” Opinion, May 16th) displays his standard avoidance of the central truth that Ireland’s limp and unconvincing challenge to the state of Israel has nothing to do with the religious beliefs of its 2,500 Jewish citizens. There are plenty among our Jewish community who...
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