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Source: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/20/ireland-has-fallen-to-the-cult-of-israelophobia
Ireland Has Fallen to the Cult of Israelophobia
(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - If the polls are to be believed, Ireland is about to get a president who is more extremist on Gaza than the Palestinian Authority. Where the PA at least says Hamas should "have no role to play" in post-war Gaza, Catherine Connolly, who looks set to be Ireland's next head of state, says Hamas is "part of the fabric of the Palestinian people" and Israel and its Western allies should not have "any say about Hamas." Hamas should not be ruled out from a government role, she said. Can we pause to reflect on how flat-out mad it is that this once great republic looks set to get a president who thinks Hamas is a democratic organization. Connolly has become the patron saint of Ireland's cult of Palestinianism. It is difficult to overstate the extent to which Ireland has been consumed by the religious fervor of Israelophobia. The Palestine flag flies everywhere. The Dublin elites are fixated on Gaza to a demented degree. They yap about it constantly in the national parliament. They are hell-bent on seeing that dastardly Jewish nation be arraigned for "genocide" - so much so that the Irish government proposed that the International Court of Justice "broaden its interpretation of what constitutes the commission of a genocide" in order that Israel might finally be found guilty of that crime. Truth, decency, even the basic meaning of words, is gleefully flung on the bonfire of convicting the Jewish State of evil. No wonder Israel closed its embassy in Dublin. Israel has become a Satan substitute for post-Catholic Ireland, the new devil against which godless moralists measure their decency. And if Connolly wins, Israelophobia will be all but institutionalized as the new state religion.