John, an excellent article. In my discussions about Israel with friends and (Irish) family I have often raised the paradox that it was the UN who proposed the partition plan for separate coexisting Jewish & Arab states versus their current anti Israel position.
You are also spot on regarding the shifting position of Ireland, specifically post the six day war when a university led civil rights movement emerged in Belfast protesting about discrimination of Catholics. I graduated from QUB in 1968. When the Unionist government over reacted to these protest marches with extreme brutality the virtually defunct IRA saw an opportunity and re-emerged gaining a new grass roots support and which led to the so called Troubles.
As you rightly point out an association with the PLO emerged and the ideology of a common anti colonial imperialism was embraced.
Given that the vast majority of Ireland’s politicians and media class were born no earlier than the 60s it is not too difficult to see how their understanding of Israel became conflated with Ireland’s history of colonisation by Britain. I was 30 years old based in England when I first visited Israel on business a few years after the Yom Kippur War and saw first hand the position on the ground, and began my own study of Jewish history and the Palestinian conflict.
Just to demur slightly, but relevant to the discussion, the IRA at the time was seen to have failed the Catholic people of the six counties of Ulster while the RUC had largely stood aside and allowed the oppression to carry on; and so came the formation of the Provisional IRA which mounted its idea of resistance on their behalf. Protestant paramilitaries were also mobilised. Early on, the British Army was deployed to keep the peace, but it soon sided with the protestants and the RUC, stirring memories of the civil war, concluded in 1921, which was very much about colonial rule by Britain. It was in fact the leadership of the Provos that chose to make common cause with Arafat. There is a causal link, but the equivalences were false nonetheless.
I agree but whether it was the ‘old IRA’ or its new iteration, the Provisional IRA it doesn’t change the narrative around Arafat and the conflation of his incorrect claims of Palestinians being the victims of a colonial imperialist power, Britain who then facilitated the creation of a Jewish state in their land and the colonisation of Ireland by Britain. To begin with a Palestinian state didn’t exist. Secondly, it was the decision of the victorious allies to decolonise the former Ottoman Empire into nation Arab States with the exception of Palestine which was to be a Jewish state in their ancestral homeland. Jews, Arabs, Druze, Samaritans and Christians all lived on the land at the time. The Arabs rejected this and all subsequent proposals for a two state solution, including insurrection, 3 major wars, intifadas and an ongoing terrorist campaign against the Jews and Israel.
It was Arafat & the PLO who cleverly adopted the concept of Palestinians as a ‘national identity’ for the Muslim Arabs - during the British Mandate all peoples there including the Jews were referred to as Palestinians, and then conducted the propaganda campaign of being colonised, victimised, subjugated and oppressed at the hands of the Jews.
Thank you for this superb article, John! Indeed we’ve seen many strange alliances when it comes to the Israel-Palestine Conflict. You grapple with and explain them masterfully in this piece!
The United Nations is the body that created Israel in 1947 but since that time it has turned on the Jewish state passing thousands of resolutions against it while countries that have much, much worse human rights records and have actually committed human rights abuses like Russia, China, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Myanmar, Congo, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Belarus, Egypt, Sudan, etc. have had few or no resolutions passed against them. The UN in particular passed a resolution in 1975, UN Resolution 3379 to be exact, that declared Zionism a form of racism. This is of course a ridiculous charge and all the western nations voted against it and call it out. The United States’ Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave a rousing speech in opposition to it. It would luckily be revoked in 1991 but it just goes to show the contempt the UN has for Israel.
The alliance between the Arab countries and the Palestinians is an interesting and complex one. When the Arab nations came to the aid of the Palestinian Arabs during the 1948 War this was merely because they had a common enemy, NOT because the Arabs cared about the Palestinians or wished to create a state for them. After the war was over, the Arab nations washed their hands of them and said they were the UN’s problem. They’ve kept them in poverty and as a second-class citizens. They have an actual apartheid system against them. They wanted and want to keep them in poverty and angry and bitter to use them as a weapon against Israel. Yet in public they claim to care so deeply about their cause.
Meanwhile, Arab countries give Palestinian refugees special perks that draw resentment from Arab workers. Though there certainly is sympathy for the Palestinian’s plight among the Arab street there is also resentment and prejudice towards Palestinians as well. The Palestinians get humanitarian support from UNRWA. UNRWA is a corrupt racket that in its schools teaches Palestinian children to hate Jews and Israel and become suicide bombers or terrorists. I did not know UNRWA was once run by foreigners but now is mostly run by Palestinians. This is a fascinating fact that explains why UNRWA does the opposite of what it is tasked to do. It is literally staffed by people who have an interest in keeping that hate alive and keeping that gravy train going in the case of Fatah and Hamas rather than being objective or neutral.
Ireland used to be very supportive of Israel and the Irish people identified with the plight of the Jewish people. But after the Six-Day War everything changed as Israel emerged as a regional power and came to be seen as now being Goliath rather than David. Also, the close ties forged between the PLO and the IRA would gradually pull the Emerald Isle into the Palestinian camp.
Lastly, the long-standing ties between blacks and Jews in this country fighting together for social and radical justice as well as Israel’s love and support for the peoples of black Africa is well-known. Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion were both appalled by the injustices they saw done to black people in America. So it is all the more ironic and sad that BLM called Israel an apartheid state and stood with Hamas and had no problem with their atrocities on October 7th.
The BLM stance is no surprise as they have been financed by the same leftist Marxists, especially Jew hater George Soros, who betrayed his own people in Nazi Germany days. As for Ireland, I expect to see a reverse in their support of "Palestinians" as they lose control of their government to the Arab immigrants they stupidly invited in. It's not surprising that the self-proclaimed Palestinian underdogs have taken advantage of the anti-Jew propaganda labeling Jews as the cause of all the world's problems. The only way to take of the Palestinian problem is, unfortunately, is for Israel to wipe them out.
Intriguing, educating and sadly, just another explanation that cannot answer the question, why is the target always the Jews? I am a Canadian Jew, not an Israeli, not a Zionist but a pragmatist. If there was no Israel, what would become of the Jews?
As per BLM, go back to the Marxist Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam. A textbook example of the Red/Green Alliance of Marxist/Islamist “ revolutionary unity”, It began with the Muslim Brotherhood, The most infamous movement and consequence was the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The Palestinian PLA led by Arafat, too.
Antifa,Women’s March , Pride March, Venezuela/Maduro… Keir Starmer/Jeremy Corbin, Australia/Albanese, Peru/Lula, Canada/Trudeau… The Squad/Bernie/Congressional Black Caucus.. the entire current Dem Party …
But who is organizing and bankrolling it behind the scenes aside from Qatar, Iran , CCPand the UN?
Leftist billionaires, think tanks, NGOs, Advocacy orgs, philanthropies , corporations , hedge funds.. and the greatest gut punch of all. Many of the honchos are Jews ( in name only) and some are in Israel.
Courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer laundered through USAID.
George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Pritzker family, Gelber and Goldman family, Faye Straus,Howard Horowitz, Naomi Klein, Ben and Jerry Wallace Shawn, Ella Emhoff, Michael Moritz, Dustin Moskowitz are a sampling of the American Jews.
Rockefeller,Ford,Tides Foundations, Morgan Stanley,Chase-CitiBank, Bill Gates,Warren Buffett,Singh,Pierre Omydar,Adalah,Libra,
Israeli traitors-Ehud Barak, Benny Gantz,Haaretz,New Israel Fund,Black Hats,Pegasus( under new name),Ronen Bar,Baharav -Miara, Our Way, One Voice,V15,Blue and White Future, PEF Israel Endowment Funds, Yair Golan are just a few… and most were funded by the U.S. Taxpayer, unbeknownst to us through grants “ bestowed” by the Biden admin.
Pretty special. And I haven’t even gotten to the Team Epstein CIA connection.
Many post-Jews in the diaspora have converted to the Progressive Religion. They have turned their backs on the Jewish People. Too many "Reform" Jews fall into this category. When you believe in nothing, you will end up believing anything.
The UN has been hijacked long ago by nefarious actors who manipulated its agencies and took advantage of its former respected place in the world to use it as tool for evil. I hope and pray those days are over.
John, an excellent article. In my discussions about Israel with friends and (Irish) family I have often raised the paradox that it was the UN who proposed the partition plan for separate coexisting Jewish & Arab states versus their current anti Israel position.
You are also spot on regarding the shifting position of Ireland, specifically post the six day war when a university led civil rights movement emerged in Belfast protesting about discrimination of Catholics. I graduated from QUB in 1968. When the Unionist government over reacted to these protest marches with extreme brutality the virtually defunct IRA saw an opportunity and re-emerged gaining a new grass roots support and which led to the so called Troubles.
As you rightly point out an association with the PLO emerged and the ideology of a common anti colonial imperialism was embraced.
Given that the vast majority of Ireland’s politicians and media class were born no earlier than the 60s it is not too difficult to see how their understanding of Israel became conflated with Ireland’s history of colonisation by Britain. I was 30 years old based in England when I first visited Israel on business a few years after the Yom Kippur War and saw first hand the position on the ground, and began my own study of Jewish history and the Palestinian conflict.
Am Yisrael Chai.
Just to demur slightly, but relevant to the discussion, the IRA at the time was seen to have failed the Catholic people of the six counties of Ulster while the RUC had largely stood aside and allowed the oppression to carry on; and so came the formation of the Provisional IRA which mounted its idea of resistance on their behalf. Protestant paramilitaries were also mobilised. Early on, the British Army was deployed to keep the peace, but it soon sided with the protestants and the RUC, stirring memories of the civil war, concluded in 1921, which was very much about colonial rule by Britain. It was in fact the leadership of the Provos that chose to make common cause with Arafat. There is a causal link, but the equivalences were false nonetheless.
I agree but whether it was the ‘old IRA’ or its new iteration, the Provisional IRA it doesn’t change the narrative around Arafat and the conflation of his incorrect claims of Palestinians being the victims of a colonial imperialist power, Britain who then facilitated the creation of a Jewish state in their land and the colonisation of Ireland by Britain. To begin with a Palestinian state didn’t exist. Secondly, it was the decision of the victorious allies to decolonise the former Ottoman Empire into nation Arab States with the exception of Palestine which was to be a Jewish state in their ancestral homeland. Jews, Arabs, Druze, Samaritans and Christians all lived on the land at the time. The Arabs rejected this and all subsequent proposals for a two state solution, including insurrection, 3 major wars, intifadas and an ongoing terrorist campaign against the Jews and Israel.
It was Arafat & the PLO who cleverly adopted the concept of Palestinians as a ‘national identity’ for the Muslim Arabs - during the British Mandate all peoples there including the Jews were referred to as Palestinians, and then conducted the propaganda campaign of being colonised, victimised, subjugated and oppressed at the hands of the Jews.
Brian, nice to see someone who read and digest history. Thank you for that. Am Yisrael Chai… if only…
Am Yisrael Chai!
Thank you for this superb article, John! Indeed we’ve seen many strange alliances when it comes to the Israel-Palestine Conflict. You grapple with and explain them masterfully in this piece!
The United Nations is the body that created Israel in 1947 but since that time it has turned on the Jewish state passing thousands of resolutions against it while countries that have much, much worse human rights records and have actually committed human rights abuses like Russia, China, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Myanmar, Congo, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Belarus, Egypt, Sudan, etc. have had few or no resolutions passed against them. The UN in particular passed a resolution in 1975, UN Resolution 3379 to be exact, that declared Zionism a form of racism. This is of course a ridiculous charge and all the western nations voted against it and call it out. The United States’ Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave a rousing speech in opposition to it. It would luckily be revoked in 1991 but it just goes to show the contempt the UN has for Israel.
The alliance between the Arab countries and the Palestinians is an interesting and complex one. When the Arab nations came to the aid of the Palestinian Arabs during the 1948 War this was merely because they had a common enemy, NOT because the Arabs cared about the Palestinians or wished to create a state for them. After the war was over, the Arab nations washed their hands of them and said they were the UN’s problem. They’ve kept them in poverty and as a second-class citizens. They have an actual apartheid system against them. They wanted and want to keep them in poverty and angry and bitter to use them as a weapon against Israel. Yet in public they claim to care so deeply about their cause.
Meanwhile, Arab countries give Palestinian refugees special perks that draw resentment from Arab workers. Though there certainly is sympathy for the Palestinian’s plight among the Arab street there is also resentment and prejudice towards Palestinians as well. The Palestinians get humanitarian support from UNRWA. UNRWA is a corrupt racket that in its schools teaches Palestinian children to hate Jews and Israel and become suicide bombers or terrorists. I did not know UNRWA was once run by foreigners but now is mostly run by Palestinians. This is a fascinating fact that explains why UNRWA does the opposite of what it is tasked to do. It is literally staffed by people who have an interest in keeping that hate alive and keeping that gravy train going in the case of Fatah and Hamas rather than being objective or neutral.
Ireland used to be very supportive of Israel and the Irish people identified with the plight of the Jewish people. But after the Six-Day War everything changed as Israel emerged as a regional power and came to be seen as now being Goliath rather than David. Also, the close ties forged between the PLO and the IRA would gradually pull the Emerald Isle into the Palestinian camp.
Lastly, the long-standing ties between blacks and Jews in this country fighting together for social and radical justice as well as Israel’s love and support for the peoples of black Africa is well-known. Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion were both appalled by the injustices they saw done to black people in America. So it is all the more ironic and sad that BLM called Israel an apartheid state and stood with Hamas and had no problem with their atrocities on October 7th.
The BLM stance is no surprise as they have been financed by the same leftist Marxists, especially Jew hater George Soros, who betrayed his own people in Nazi Germany days. As for Ireland, I expect to see a reverse in their support of "Palestinians" as they lose control of their government to the Arab immigrants they stupidly invited in. It's not surprising that the self-proclaimed Palestinian underdogs have taken advantage of the anti-Jew propaganda labeling Jews as the cause of all the world's problems. The only way to take of the Palestinian problem is, unfortunately, is for Israel to wipe them out.
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It is past time to defund, condemn, and abandon the failed UN. Kick them out of NY; they can resettle in Gaza.
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Intriguing, educating and sadly, just another explanation that cannot answer the question, why is the target always the Jews? I am a Canadian Jew, not an Israeli, not a Zionist but a pragmatist. If there was no Israel, what would become of the Jews?
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If memory serves, Sirhan-Sirhan was Christian.
As per BLM, go back to the Marxist Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam. A textbook example of the Red/Green Alliance of Marxist/Islamist “ revolutionary unity”, It began with the Muslim Brotherhood, The most infamous movement and consequence was the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The Palestinian PLA led by Arafat, too.
Antifa,Women’s March , Pride March, Venezuela/Maduro… Keir Starmer/Jeremy Corbin, Australia/Albanese, Peru/Lula, Canada/Trudeau… The Squad/Bernie/Congressional Black Caucus.. the entire current Dem Party …
But who is organizing and bankrolling it behind the scenes aside from Qatar, Iran , CCPand the UN?
Leftist billionaires, think tanks, NGOs, Advocacy orgs, philanthropies , corporations , hedge funds.. and the greatest gut punch of all. Many of the honchos are Jews ( in name only) and some are in Israel.
Courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer laundered through USAID.
George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Pritzker family, Gelber and Goldman family, Faye Straus,Howard Horowitz, Naomi Klein, Ben and Jerry Wallace Shawn, Ella Emhoff, Michael Moritz, Dustin Moskowitz are a sampling of the American Jews.
Rockefeller,Ford,Tides Foundations, Morgan Stanley,Chase-CitiBank, Bill Gates,Warren Buffett,Singh,Pierre Omydar,Adalah,Libra,
Israeli traitors-Ehud Barak, Benny Gantz,Haaretz,New Israel Fund,Black Hats,Pegasus( under new name),Ronen Bar,Baharav -Miara, Our Way, One Voice,V15,Blue and White Future, PEF Israel Endowment Funds, Yair Golan are just a few… and most were funded by the U.S. Taxpayer, unbeknownst to us through grants “ bestowed” by the Biden admin.
Pretty special. And I haven’t even gotten to the Team Epstein CIA connection.
Many post-Jews in the diaspora have converted to the Progressive Religion. They have turned their backs on the Jewish People. Too many "Reform" Jews fall into this category. When you believe in nothing, you will end up believing anything.
They turned their back on humanity . They’ve reached, or in the process of reaching the apex of the nadir.
The UN has been hijacked long ago by nefarious actors who manipulated its agencies and took advantage of its former respected place in the world to use it as tool for evil. I hope and pray those days are over.
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