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Irish Sinn Fein Has Nursed a Bitter Streak of Anti-Semitism
(Belfast Telegraph-UK) Ruth Dudley Edwards - [Sinn Fein is a left-wing Irish republican political party founded in 1905 that is active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and has historically been associated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). (Wikipedia)] The cult that is Sinn Fein trains its gullible followers to be virulent anti-Semites. They fly Palestinian flags much less as a mark of their compassion for Palestinians than as a sign of their hatred of Israelis. The Republic of Ireland was pro-Zionist in the 1920s and '30s, when it was seen as a plucky anti-British movement for self-determination. But once the state came into being, public opinion shifted to seeing it as a colony imposed by the British on the native population. Ignoring Jews' ancestral rights, Israelis became the bad guys and Irish political leaders unthinkingly endorsed policies that would lead to the total destruction of Israel. In the EU, Ireland became one of Israel's harshest critics. In 2006, Aengus O Snodaigh TD, the party's international affairs and human rights spokesperson, described Israel - the only functioning democracy in the Middle East - as "one of the most abhorrent and despicable regimes on the planet."