 Hi friends and subscribers a very warm welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rosal here bring you this video today From Jerusalem in Israel among the rainy weather Rainy windy and rather Irish like weather that we're having at the moment I want to do a video today now. I said I know I said a few days ago that I wasn't going to talk about Ireland and Israel stuff anymore, and I'm trying to keep all that to a minimum I've set up another YouTube channel called Ireland Israel watch and all the sort of Examples of what I regard is hate speech and anti-Semitic rhetoric Coming out of Ireland's Parliament and elsewhere. I'm putting up on that channel So the people who subscribe here don't get flooded with a bunch of those videos Because I'm trying to keep this channel focused on as best as I can Life in Israel and the things that I think are good about life in Israel and how to live in Israel That's kind of really the intended sort of market for this YouTube channel if you will But I'm active on Twitter slash X and I have seen there's been quite a bit of chatter recently regarding anti-Semitism in Ireland And I've seen a couple of threads where people are like well We should ask an Irish Jew and I'm like well I guess I could make myself known because there just really aren't that many Irish Jews in the world so although there is you know a lot of anti-Semitism going on in The US and in the UK there are plenty of organizations and spokespeople Talking about that and when it comes to anti-Semitism in Ireland I feel like the Jewish community is firstly tiny and Secondly really tends to like to keep its head down, which is why I'm trying to keep my head up and Offer my two cents even if people in the community might not be too happy about me for doing that So what I want to talk about today is anti-Semitism in Ireland So the first thing I want to say is that there is anti-Semitism in Ireland But I don't think it's fair by any strategy the imagination to call Ireland anti-Semitic and something I see a lot in the kind of Hasper our world is that Sometimes Israel advocates will throw racism back over the fence because there's so much You know bullshit and hostility being thrown at Israel They'll say well You're all a bunch of drunk Irish people and I've I've deletes and banned people from my YouTube channel for making anti-Irish slurs You know that don't bear repetition here. So there is definitely Sort of two sides to racism, but there's racism in every society, right? There is anti-Semitism to some degree in any country in the world and there's anti-Irish sentiment in Israel for sure And there's anti-Jamaican sentiment in Denmark and probably people in Denmark who don't like the Czech Republic And I could go on but the point I'm trying to make is there's some degree of antipathy for different for different groups And there's racism in all societies, but you can't Categorize an entire society as being anti anything because there's always going to be people who buck that trend and who are being unfair unfairly cast as In this case anti-Semitic because of the actions of some people. So I reject wholeheartedly that Ireland is anti-Semitic Anti-Semitic the next question is is Ireland to particularly anti-Semitic country and I would charge also that that's not the case I have a friend on Twitter or a guy I'm talking to by DM called Kieran And Kieran sent me and he's pro-Israel guy in Ireland and he sent me on some Surveying of Irish attitudes towards about Jews sort of testing for anti-Semitism by statements like, you know, Jews control Hollywood or Jews control the US do you agree and the response rates in Ireland or below the European Average by and large. So I think the most anti-Semitic countries when they do that kind of polling Greece tends to be way up there and Spain So, you know, look, it's impossible to tell even though surveys are flawed because people can just lie In their responses to try and make themselves look better and they might be trying to make their country look better So I think the true incidence of anti-Semitism is really really probably extremely difficult to pull out through stuff like this polling But my own experience living in Ireland growing up in Cork was that I did experience anti-Semitism I've done a separate video about growing up Jewish in Ireland. I had a I firstly was, you know, kind of low-level Anti-Semitic name-calling Jew boy, you know, don't need to go into it. Yes, I definitely got that Has a teacher who used to go on rants about how the Jews were greedy people An English teacher and that was really a little bit traumatizing because I was the only Jewish Child in the school and in the classroom and I just had to kind of sit there as my head down at my desk listening to these rants about how bad Jews were and You know, just looking on then in the online sphere just an anonymous phone calls anonymous emails from people in Ireland I've been getting tweets from people in Ireland the last couple of weeks full of anti-Semitic experts So I don't think and there was a swastika dobbed on a house in I Think it wasn't from more a couple of weeks back. So look there is anti-Semitism in Ireland I've seen it with my own eyes. I think it's out there. I think everyone with You know, who's rational would would agree that it is a thing the issues I have with anti-Semitism in Ireland Aren't the fact that I think it's pretty, you know, extremely extraordinarily prevalent. My issues are twofold firstly When that it goes unchallenged Particularly in the public domain. That's one feature that I think is quite unique To the Irish context for instance when I you know was sharing those videos of Richard Boyd Barrett comparing Israel's war In Gaza to the Nazi genocide of Jews. I support the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism It includes comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany as an example of anti-Semitism Richard Boyd Barrett has had so many things I would regard as anti-Semitic. So, you know when those utterances Denying October 7th. We had I there was a guy yesterday a quirk comedian who I posted on Twitter that went kind of viral Basically denying that there were rapes happening on October 7th and you could say well, that's you know, that's just anti-Israel But there is certainly a line There that gets crossed when you know, that's kind of pretty much on par with Holocaust denial To say that there was no rape and no massacre on October the 7th So my issue really and the reason I've been doing this kind of advocacy work to put it like that is firstly because I think it goes on Challenged, I don't think that's acceptable and I think part of challenging it is highlighting instances of it And the second thing really is that I think it you know hate speech and Hate incitement to hate racial hate particularly against Jews I feel like there's no enforcement happening in in Ireland that The journal.ie's article about the swastika being dubbed on a house in Tremor Included it said there was a swastika and a star of David dobbed on a house And it said the guardie which is Ireland's police force are not investigating You know There's just a lot more examples of things that I've seen recently that I regard as Transparent hate speech and anti-Semitic speech and I that's what I have an issue with in Ireland It's not that I think Ireland is anti-Semitic I think that the anti-Semitism that does exist in Ireland is goes and challenged and secondly There is a weird kind of entrenched denial among elements of Irish society that there is no anti-Semitism This is kind of a claim that very few people Make and that I find quite bizarre especially even when the odd Irish Jew makes it I've seen recently a bunch of tweets I can just pull one up on the screen as a random example, but people saying there is no anti-Semitism in Ireland and Firstly, it's preposterous for the reasons that I've tried to articulate and argue and secondly It's just not true that is simply a fallacy and I find it particularly weird That's something I don't see really in other geographies in the US in the UK I don't see a flat denial of The mere existence of anti-Semitism in society at large in the same way that I see that a lot From Irish society and in Irish Twitter and other online Sort of you know areas of Ireland. Anyway, I don't want to say too much about it I do think I am a little bit I am concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism in Ireland I think that people like Richard Boyd Barrett are very very dangerous Because people can dismiss him as kind of a fringe lunatic, which I really think he is but you know, he's getting up there accusing Israel of conducting a genocide Genocide being an being ethnic cleansing and just stirring up a day in day out to big audiences In Ireland and you know, you can say they're small, but look at the numbers on the street. They're not that small And Mary Lou McDonald of Sinn Fein really not all that far behind Pbp in the level of agitation and these We've seen repeatedly that actions leads leads to lead to words And that's what I'm concerned about the climate of acceptance in Ireland for anti-Semitism That's my view over here in Jerusalem and thanks for watching today's video Second video blog for the day and more videos will be coming soon