(Dublin) “The Israeli Embassy is Not the Jewish Embassy”
JVL Introduction
Jews for Palestine – Ireland welcomes the closure of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin
We call on the Irish government to take meaningful action to sanction Israel, a hostile government that has killed over 45,000 people in Gaza, has attacked UNIFIL peacekeepers and is now bombing Syria while the world looks on.
“It is hard to believe that the Irish government wishes to keep the Irish embassy in Israel. Having signed onto South Africa’s ICJ case, the government has no reason to maintain diplomatic relations with the state of Israel, a state that Ireland accepts is committing genocide,” said Dr David Landy.
We refute the assertion by the Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, that the Irish government’s support for South Africa’s ICJ case and recognition of a Palestinian state are “antisemitic”.
Some Irish Jews – those who support Israel and its apartheid policies – are against the closure of the Israeli embassy. Other Irish Jews are frankly delighted. Jews have never been so divided on Israel, and statements that have appeared in the media, such as ‘the Jewish community is against the closure of the Israeli embassy’, are wholly incorrect. Such statements work to conflate Israel and Jews, and feed into a false and antisemitic narrative.
Dr David Landy of Jews for Palestine stated “The Israeli embassy is not the Jewish embassy. It is the embassy of a state committing genocide.” Sue Pentel of Jews for Palestine Ireland stated “We oppose the cynical use of Jewish identity, history and the holocaust to justify the rogue state that Israel has become.”
The Israeli government is on a killing spree with airstrikes across Gaza – bombing schools, tents and hospitals. It is bombing Syria and Lebanon with impunity and seizing Syrian territory. The only way to break that impunity is concerted international action and the imposition of sanctions.
We demand action not words from the Irish government.
Stop the Central Bank financing genocide by selling Israeli war bonds, stop all trade with companies complicit in the illegal occupation and stop Irish airspace being used by military warplanes carrying weapons to Israel.
Never Again is for Everyone
Never Again is Now.
This article was originally published by Irish Times (Opinion) on Thu 19 Dec 2024. Read the original here.
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Yet one more instance of Israel playing the ‘anti-Semitism’ card. It is spurious to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Israelis know this. Today’s Zionists have gone off the rails. They will never, ever concede that – as Gutteres said – October 7 2023 ‘did not happen in a vacuum’. Were they to do so, that would be tantamount to them putting their hands up and saying ‘we have wronged the Palestinians’, Unthinkable. The whole Zionist project would then unravel… They MUST keep on living in denial. Now, what is to stop them from occupying Syria in perpetuity? Who is to stop them from occupying Syria in perpetuity? Eretz Ysrael is on the march. Lebensraum. Ethnic cleansing. Final Solution. Thousand year… you can join the dots. This doesn’t end well. No Rapture.