Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation 🎗️ @AuschwitzJCF · Dec 14, 2025 Replying to @MichealMartinTD Condemnations of antisemitic violence ring hollow when detached from accountability. For months, Ireland’s government has relentlessly singled out Israel while failing to meaningfully confront antisemitism at home. Jewish warnings that demonizing the world’s only Jewish state would not remain confined to rhetoric were dismissed. They were right. Antisemitic violence does not arise in a vacuum. It is fueled by narratives that portray Jewish self-defense as criminal, Jewish suffering as conditional, and Jewish identity as collective guilt. When such narratives are normalized by political leaders, they help legitimize the hatred those same leaders later claim to oppose. Expressions of sympathy after attacks are not moral leadership. If Ireland’s leaders genuinely wish to stand against antisemitism, they must confront the consequences of their own words and actions and abandon rhetoric that isolates and delegitimizes Jews through Israel. Anything less is not solidarity. It is hypocrisy.

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