Hypocrisy In Dublin, Ireland Shown As Ripe For BDS

 Nadene Goldfoot    

Adapted from Tibor Krausz, TAKING ON BDS, The Jerusalem Report     

                        Ireland exhibiting so much anti-Semitism Against Israel                                 

Hypocrisy has been alive and well in Dublin, Ireland's capitol, for me to see that BDS beliefs  exist in some citizens.  Dublin was the home for my  Grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfus/foot for a short while after entering England for a quick trial.  He was a Jewish immigrant from Telz, Lithuania, a place many Jews had left in the late 1800s that wound up in Dublin.  I don't think they chose Dublin for their Guinness, but for possible opportunities and to escape from anti-Semitism in Lithuania. 

A self-styled Sacha Baron Cohen film-maker, also Jewish, went to Dublin for a test, like Cohen has done so often.  It reminds me of the Prophet Elijah going to people's homes during Passover to test their reactions to his presence. He comes to redeem us.  I hope we are worthy.  We're ready for Elijah with a glass of wine just for him.   Sacha isn't there to redeem, but certainly to expose them for what they are.  

                                        

Only this time it was Ami Horovitz, a Jewish American New York film-maker  who also writes satirical-style like Cohen to play the part of Elijah visiting and talking with people.  His mission was to see for himself what local supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement were doing in Europe involving  the anti-Israel campaign whose goal is to isolate Israel politically, economically and culturally.  

Ami Horowitz is an American documentary filmmaker.   He is the writer, producer, and director of Ami on the Streets, a satirical short film series made for Fox News. Horowitz co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in the 2009 documentary U.N. Me, a critical examination of the United Nations.   A native of Los Angeles, Horowitz graduated from the University of Southern California with majors in political science and philosophy.   Horowitz's mother is from Israel.   He is a Modern Orthodox Jew, Democrat, and spent a year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.  

He pretended to be a sales-agent for such places as Iran, Sudan and North Korea, countries that have terrible reputations in the human-rights areas. Dublin citizens didn't bat an eye.  These countries didn't bother them at all, but when he mentioned Israel-Oy Vey!  Then he immediately heard loud boos from them.  So he even highlighted the horrors from the 3 countries he said he represented and it still didn't matter.  These Irish hypocrites didn't care;  they'd do business with them, but not from Israel.

It reminds me of a response I've seen in children when I taught K through grade 2.  One child would fall out of his seat on purpose to get attention most likely, and then all the children copied him and also fell out of their seats.  We humans seem to have a sheep-like quality similar to antelopes in a herd.  They all react together, even if running to the edge of the cliff.  Leaders of any sub-group- exposed to BDS without any education about Israel react, and everyone reacts together.  They could be the parents in a family, the leader in the neighborhood;  all are sheep.  No one is a leader away from the cliff or stops to do research on just what BDS is.  Anti-Semitism is strong in Dublin.

How sad.  It was quite a center of refuge for Jews such as my grandfather.  I have found many of our Goldfus-Goldfoot ancestors living there and in a few other Irish cities.  Jews had a good reputation there, too, I thought.    Why has this changed?  I have the book, Jewish Ireland-a social history  by Ray Rivlin that tells about life there.  It starts with the 1880s when Orthodox Russian Jews, forced to flee Tsarist persecution, began arriving in Ireland without any means of support, little secular education, and  no understanding of English.  They started life as peddlers and grew to become professionals and entrepreneurs  and took active parts in Irish life; their civil war and other major conflicts.

• Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Ireland from 1919 to 1937, later of Palestine and Israel.

• Chaim Herzog was an Irish Jew, sixth President of Israel and British World War II veteran. During and after his service in the British Army, he was also known as "Vivian Herzog" ("Vivian" being the English equivalent of the Hebrew name "Chaim")
• Justice Henry Barron, Irish Supreme Court judge 1997-2003
• In 1956, Robert Briscoe became the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, although he was not the first Jewish Mayor in Ireland. That title belongs to William Annyas, who was elected Mayor of Youghal, County Cork in 1555.  This could be because England had expulsed all Jews from 1290 to 1655;  365 years.  So Jews found refuge in Ireland.  
• Joe Briscoe (son of Robert Briscoe), member of the Jewish Representative Council (predating Israeli Embassy) and Commandant in the Irish Army
• Daniel Day-Lewis, actor.  

Anti-Semitism existed in Dublin as well in the early 1880s.  Placards in 1886 urged people to have no truck with the foreign Jews of recent arrival.  Letters following screamed against the Jewish presence.  Social justice was non existent.  

There are no protests today against human-rights violators;  not even a global boycott such as people of North Korea, Iran or Sudan.  Only Israel ticks so many off because of this movement of BDS propaganda, something the Nazis were so good at.  They have learned a new mantra:  Palestinians are good;  Israelis are evil.

The BDS movement was modeled on the African National Congress-led boycott of apartheid-era South Africa.  The BDS movement grew out of the UN's World Conference Against Racism in Durham, South Africa in 2001.  This turned into a notorious hate-fest against Jews and their state of Israel.  

BDS was conceived  only one year after Prime Minister Ehud Barak had offered historic concessions making me grimace in pain at the thought of it,  to the PLO head terrorist, Yasser Arafat.  Arafat, thank G-d, turned the offer down as he wanted ALL of Israel, and launched the 2nd Intifada instead.  It was a brutal uprising that included many suicide bombings and other attacks against Israeli citizens.  I guess with all that planning of his, he couldn't resist the chance.  

"The BDS movement is funded largely by European governments through a variety of participating NGOs and is  to enfranchise Palestinians by turning their oppressors into a global pariah."  

BDS activists insist that Israel alone is responsible for the lack of peace between Israelis and Palestinians and seek to coerce the Jewish state into making more and more unilateral and unreciprocated concessions through an unreciprocated global campaign of political, economic and cultural isolation.  

Just how long did the war go on in Ireland between the Catholics and the Protestants?  Or between England and Ireland?    As I see it, the people are of the same religion with a few differences.  The differences between Jews and Muslims may be slight to Christians, as we both believe in the ONE G-d viewpoint, but we have vast differences otherwise, that is just beginning to break down in the areas of culture and education and what's right and what's wrong.  Wikipaedia points out that "The Troubles (Irish: Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist period of conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.  I think it's lasted much longer, especially between problems between England and Ireland.  Great neighbors, what?  Is this what Israel has to look forward to?  

Nicholas Dyrenforth, a Jewish-Australian academic, who is a co-author of "Boycotting Israel is Wrong," with Philip Mendes, said, "BDS is a war on Israel by means other than violence with the same aim of ending Israel's existence and reversing the wars of 1948 and 1967."  I guess I'm not being paranoid.  It's obvious to many of us about the lying propaganda BDS spews forth.  I'm sick of viewing  a deaf ear from many about its evil intentions.  

                                                  

Omar Barghouti, the leading light of BDS, was born in Qatar where hatred comes from their radio to all the Arab countries through their religious leader, Yusuf al-Qaradawi.   Omar was a founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.  He has the chutzpa of calling Israel a racist "apartheid" state, yet, ironically, is happy to be a PhD student at Tel Aviv University.  How 2-faced can you get?   He received the Gandhi Peace Award in 2017. Oy,oy vey!!   He has made no secret of the BDS campaign's ultimate goal to turn Israeli Jews into a tolerated minority in their new Arab state of Palestine.  In other words, he envisions the same fate for Israeli Jews that he accuses them of having perpetrated on Palestinians.  

Shame on the Gandhi Peace Award people.  They should see through this veil of pretense of human rights and see for what it is-propaganda to destroy Israel.  And I thought I was a gullible person!  They are no better than the Dublin hypocrites.  It's a pandemic!  

Resource: 

The Jerusalem Report, July 13, 2015, Taking On BDS by Tibor Ksrausz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ami_Horowitz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles#:~:text=The%20Troubles%20(Irish%3A%20Na%20Triobl%C3%B3id%C3%AD,1960s%20to%20the%20late%201990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Briscoe_(politician)#:~:text=In%201956%2C%20Briscoe%20became%20the,Youghal%2C%20County%20Cork%20in%201555.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_Jews

https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/504495/jewish/Why-Is-Elijah-the-Prophet-Invited-to-the-Seder.htm