 Hi guys, welcome back to Daniel Rossell on YouTube this channel usually goes by the full name of Daniel Rossell Jerusalem and Israel unpacked however lately a big focus of the channel has been looking at Ireland's reaction to the Gaza Palestine conflict and whatnot. So this is a reaction to a reaction very meta I want to be looking at today is a address by Richard Boyd Barris the Artynomus of Israel in Ireland or the most strident anti-Israel figure that's really out there on the political spectrum Giving an address today, and I thought rather than just do another video Trying to highlight probably completely and for in futile in futility Some of the extremist rhetoric about Israel that's coming out of Ireland And this is where I take an issue being tolerated in Ireland because there is such thing as hate speech and I think that Boyd Barris in accusing Israel of Engaging in day-in day-out ethnic cleansing being a terrorist state. What else is he said accusing Israel of being you know an operator of apartheid war crimes You could probably fill up a little encyclopedia with Richard Boyd Barris various rants and claims about Israel But what I thought I would do today is just take a look at this Speech that went up on Twitter earlier today from a rally in Dublin and just kind of dig deep into a little bit into why his Rhetoric is I believe so damaging so I'm going to do it like this I have the Twitter video up here, and I've just made attempts You know and I realized that this is probably doing absolutely nothing But I still believe it's it's important to be highlighted just an example I pointed out that this placard here from the river to the sea represents a call for the Elimination of the state of Israel the river is the Jordan River the sea is the Mediterranean Sea and if you open up Google Maps or any mapping tool of your choice You'll see that if we are freeing Palestine from the river to the sea we have to kick out Israel in its entirety and People will try to prefer sort of explanations for why it doesn't represent a call for the elimination of Israel And I think that it's semantics it does At its most basic and obvious level. That's what you mean, right? And the fact that I you know I pointed out that in protests across Ireland this chant was was being was being read out and You know, it's just kind of pitiful actually that there is you can basically say anything about Israel in Ireland and You know, it's all fine. There's no There's no real level or there's no real kind of enforcement here And again, I'm not talking about criticism of Israel with people You know questioning whether the Israeli response in Gaza Palestine is being proportionate, which I think is very legitimate I'm talking about people Flatly calling for the elimination of Israel another Interesting placard here kick out the Israeli ambassador that people before profit or PBP Have been pushing and now Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald has decided to after firstly saying that she didn't support it and I said Ah, you know what it's fine And I say that, you know, if Ireland wants to kick out the Israeli ambassador, we in Israel will save our money on the embassy and Maybe you put it to better use and if Israel kicks out Ireland, this is seems to evade their logic here There is such thing as reciprocity and diplomacy and Ireland will probably kick out the Israel Israel will kick out the Israeli embassy to and You know, is that going to serve Ireland's interest? Well, I think it's a question I personally wouldn't be sad if it happened at all but Just before people think, you know, think about the consequences of actions now one other thing I wanted to just say word about the comments on this video. I've been getting some hate mail recently I'm not talking about criticism. I'm talking about flat-out. You know, you should die and whatever Not very pleasant. So I'm gonna put the comments of this video on approved You have to be approved for the comment to show just because it's otherwise Hard for me to clean up the sort of hate mail as it comes in and distinguish it from the legitimate Thoughts one very legitimate point of criticism that people be making about my videos have been from coming from actually pro-israel People in Ireland saying hey, you're saying that we're all against you. We're not all against you This is you can't judge a whole country by the actions of a few people and I say that's a very very fair point I'm working on a video about Irish support for Israel because it exists And I actually started many years ago a group called Irish for Israel. That was an Israel pro-Israel lobby Taken over by another individual now. It's Irish the Ireland-Israel alliance So I'm very much sure that there is support for Ireland in Israel and I appreciate it The point really that I'm doing on this YouTube channel is critiquing two things one the extremism coming out of Ireland Someone asked me why why am I not doing extremism around the world? frankly, that would take way too much time and As a Jewish person who was born in Ireland to move to Israel This is a little slice of the picture that interests me the most And I've lost my train of thought completely. This is why this is why you shouldn't do YouTube videos after a nap That was number one point that yes, it's and secondly The government policy and I realized that some people may support Israel in Ireland, but I'm always trying to look more at what is the government saying and doing and that's why I've been doing a Lot of focus on the various Ireland's voting actions at the EU at the UN and As they say actions speak louder than words and I think it's very true in looking at how Ireland reacts to Israel So let's look at our good friend Boyd Barrett and see what he has to say and I'll pause the video periodically to make comments About why I think that it's Sometimes crazy Oops I was mistaken I'm gonna just Needle friends As we said this demonstration was originally called before The barbaric assault of Israel Started against a Gaza. It was originally a demonstration about our fears That the Irish government want to undermine our tradition of Neutrality Sarah said Neutrality does not mean indifference Neutrality does not mean doing nothing Our tradition of neutrality comes from the fact that we were victims of colonial oppression I'm just gonna stop the video at this point. I just want to make a couple of observations firstly Now there has been interesting comments in the Irish parliament about neutrality I just think it's amazing that people actually still believe that Ireland is that neutrality is a thing in Ireland It's so blatantly obvious when you're looking at it from the Israeli perspective That pretty much all of Ireland's foreign policy actions are not congruent at all I'm talking about the Israel context here, but they're not in any way congruent with Neutrality now you could say that neutrality is a is a very narrow definition and it refers to military military neutrality and that Ireland Has maintained that position probably because it has almost no army capable of you know, taking on the Israeli army So it's kind of a it's kind of a strawman argument But the neutrality in terms of the foreign policy, there's no semblance of neutrality Ireland's foreign policy since just looking at the start of the conflict with Trying to get the EU blanket condemnation Aborted it basically which failed. That's not neutrality. That's taking a pro-Palestine position And it just amazes me. I was watching a debate from the Irish parliament last week in which Jackie Healy Ray a quite entertaining politician from County Kerry and a few other Members of the Irish parliament went on about Irish neutrality and how we know we shouldn't go too far in our criticisms of Israel But to be honest, they've gone already Far past the point of anyone ever considering them as anything but a partisan ideologue here One other point I would say is that it's interesting that the Irish neutrality really doesn't seem to bother people like Richard Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy and Claire Daly they're in the background and PBP ancient fame when it comes to stuff like the Russian Ukrainian conflict there Neutrality only is a neutrality when it when it doesn't when Israel is not involved So those are my comments at this point, but these are marks and of course I did a whole different video about the flawed comparison that Boyd Barrett and so many in Ireland will do regarding Colonialism and they're they will say, you know, well, we had an experience of colonial colonialism And therefore we stand with the Palestinians and we stand, you know With the oppressed people of the world and as I pointed out the only way you can draw a comparison between Ireland's experience of English colonialism Starting in the 16th century and what they perceive Israel to be doing to the Palestinians is if you negate the entirety of Jewish history Because the Jewish people have been in the land of Israel Originated as a people in the land of Israel have been in the land of Israel on to this day and are Indigenous to this part of the world, which is something that Boyd Barrett either doesn't think about or I think more honestly willfully ignores so let's go back now to watching the Speech This is really really important I don't know why more people haven't noticed this Boyd Barrett It's very obvious when you listen to his rhetoric does not refer to is he sometimes refers to Israel But his general go-to is referring to the Israeli regime The only other people that I've encountered that refuse to refer to Israel and they use words like the Zionist enemy or the Israeli regime for that matter or the Zionist regime are basically the Ayatollahs of Iran and Lebanon As well as Hamas. So basically, you know with a guy like Richard Boyd Barrett, you really have to look slightly beyond the Okay, I was gonna say the respectable surface, but I'm not sure that's even Really fair to say but you have to look at the rhetoric and it's very much aligned It's being inspired by none other than Hamas and Iran no rational critics of Israel go about They won't this guy will not refer to it now even people who if you listen to Hamas spokespeople and Lebanese spokespeople even if their official go-to is The Zionist enemy or the Israeli regime that laps into calling it Israel just out of kind of a I guess a manner of habit And I think it's the same for Boyd Barrett, but I think it's extremely telling that His go-to descriptor of Israel is the Israeli regime, which is very intentional language that delegitimizes the state not that he doesn't do that in many other ways and It's very very deliberate and of course again to reiterate the point Boyd Barrett does not have a problem with iris ruptures in Ireland suppose the tradition of neutrality when it comes to criticisms of Russians action in Ukraine and other conflicts. It's only Israel that gets them literally foaming at the mouth To nail that lie we are seeing in front of the eyes of the world a Genocidal attack on the people of Palestine So Boyd Barrett here is saying that you know Israel isn't engaging in self-defense. It's engaging in he calls a genocide now Leo Veratke the Irish Prime Minister did on Thursday. He opined that You know that what Israel is doing in Gaza isn't Isn't self-defense. It's something more approaching revenge So Boyd Barrett has gone a couple of degrees beyond that, but it's telling that actually he's his sort of line of thinking here does actually Reflect the mainstream view of the irish government. So for people who are always telling me you're highlighting just a couple of fringe Ideologues I say is that really the case? I'm not sure or actually don't really believe it. It's the case. I think that the okay the official Irish position So again Ireland's neutrality while you're telling Israel exactly how you to pursue a war You're telling them that it it's gone beyond self-defense according to your estimations and of course Ireland has really no experience in pursuing a war against a Muslim Entity Islamic entity bent on its destruction, but for people like Boyd Barrett, you know, they're happy to Become international war experts as long as it means criticizing and bashing Israel with Scholars, we were at a meeting organized by the Rohingya people Rohingya people also victims of the genocidal attack Today they organized an online international rally for Palestine and for Gaza And I did there was a speaker from Gaza an academic along with other academics Who are specialized including Jewish academics? specialized in Again pointing out Boyd Barrett is very careful to us to bring token token Jews Into his argument as a way to very carefully preempt Allegations that he is anti-Semitic now. I've said the boy Barrett is anti-Semitic I stand by that claim Boyd Barrett in a previous Address in London compared the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians to what the Germans did to the Jews in the time of Nazism and according to the latest working definition of the IHRA Any comparisons between Nazi Germany and Israel are manifestations of anti-Semitism There is simply no other reasonable way to use them except that so I stand by that claim about Richard Boyd Barrett 110% and I think it's also suspicious that whenever he mentions a Jewish Source who's against Palestine who'd be very careful to underline their Jewishness such as Gideon Levy who he sometimes comments brings as an example the Haaretz Commentator which Boyd Barrett calls Haritz, but he works for Haritz and he's one of the more Fringed critics in our society here in Israel So when people engage saying my Jewish friend or my black friend or my gay friend or my gay teacher or my Jewish teacher It's often a hint That you know there as I say he does protest too much History in the Congo of the Armenian people of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews Looks like I spoke too soon. So you have here Boyd Barrett You know always putting a degree of separation between himself and the when he's trying to make claims like this But basically saying I was at a meeting today with some Academics I didn't quite catch exactly where he said they're from and he's basically endorsing the views that the Genocide that Israel's committing against the Palestinian people is worse than what the Nazis did to the Jews Which is just absolutely absurd offensive and Completely anti-Semitic, you know This man is claiming that the extermination of 12 million people are sorry of how many ever many Jews were killed in the Holocaust is Somehow comparable to the collateral civilians who are dying because Israel's going into Gaza and it's very difficult to effectively eliminate Hamas without inflicting mass civilian Casualties so that is just pathetic Perpetrators of this genocide are not even hiding their genocidal intent They are saying it in front of the world We are going to starve an entire population of food of water of electricity of medicine They have described the Palestinian people as animals I'm not sure really kind of pointing at facts is is really useful in this case because you're dealing with someone like Boyd Barrett It's so I don't think facts matter really to him Israel is allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza on a daily basis. It clearly is putting pressure on the Palestinian population I'm not going to deny that but to call this a genocide When Israel has tried to move people out of North Gaza Into South Gaza opening up aid corridors where possible facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid Into Gaza to compare that to the Holocaust to compare other genocides. I mean it just kind of beggars belief And yes, and yes Their sponsors the United States and Britain cannot even say They are supporting them. They could not continue this massacre Without the support of the United States of Britain of France of Germany of people like Ursula von der Leyen They are their sponsors So one one one of the guy one of the people Boyd Barrett goes off against all the time is Ursula von der Leyen who put out a statement Just about when the conflict kicked off saying that the EU stands with Israel and that's made him absolutely batch of crazy you can just kind of see the kind of Looking at the body language like the just ferocity of this man is kind of almost scary to behold and it kind of looks like um the orators Very grim orators from history just the way this guy speaks I've just realized this video is already 20 minutes long and do you know what? I've better things to do on my saturday evening than watch the entire thing But I do want to put this up on youtube because we've already seen in the five minutes of the speech We've seen Boyd Barrett comparing israel to nazi germany. We've seen a bunch of lies um, and uh, if anyone really doubts from a little snapshot that this guy is An extremist his rhetoric mirrors that of uh, iran and hamas and all those And uh, it's very he won't even refer to israel. Uh, this guy wants israel destroyed. This guy is an anti-semite And um, he is sitting there in dublin with two police people right behind him listening to everywhere. He says And uh, I think this man is dangerous and really that's kind of the essential point of this video was putting this out So thanks for watching guys As I said comments are on review mode for this just for this predictor video And if you want to get more videos from me do consider subscribing here on youtube. Have a great day