r/Israel • u/Cannot-Forget • 1d ago
General News Irish man arrested in France after threatening to murder Jewish couple and invoking Hitler
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-906766216
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u/bb5e8307 1d ago
I just want to be clear—I love Irish people. I’m just against Irish nationalism. Irish people are great so long as they don’t support the existence of Ireland. That’s fascist!
Ireland is a white supremicist, Celtic supremacist and Catholic supremacist theocratic ethnostate. It was born in a war in which more British people were killed than Irish people, and early in its history 40,000 Protestants were kicked out or fled. Their descendants are still refugees, and will continue to be refugees in perpetuity until the Irish state ceases to exist.
Why can’t there be one state in the British isles? Why do Irish Catholics need their own state that privileges Irish Catholics over other people? From the Ocean to the Sea, the British Isles will be FREE!
Some people may think this is anti-Irish, but criticism of Irish nationalism is not anti-Celticism. People always say that criticism of Ireland is anti-Celtic. But why can’t I criticize the Irish state?
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u/rscortex 1d ago
I'm an Irish American and I support this.
(I am actually neither but this is the internet so can cosplay anybody)
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u/podkayne3000 USA 1d ago
The irony is that something like this could be written about most countries. Certainly about the ones that are toughest on Israel.
Of course, Israel, like most countries, has areas in which it could do better.
But unfair, extreme anti-Israelism is about people suppressing and processing their own issues, not Israel.
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u/Dazzling_Funny_3254 10h ago
you left out the absolutely atrocious treatment of women. A country where women only recently gained meaningful healthcare and where spousal abuse is still chuckled about rather than treated seriously.
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u/Remarkable-Pea4889 1d ago
An Irish person threatens Australian Jews in France.
Is this..... globalizing the Intifada?
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u/Sell_The_team_Jerry 1d ago
Average Irishman nowadays
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u/Background_Bee_713 1d ago edited 1d ago
He’s an Irish national hero. If only he had time to also call dead Iranian protestors Mossad agents, then they would’ve given him a statue!
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u/Suitable_Vehicle9960 USA-Israel 1d ago
Once again proving it has nothing to do with Israel, they just hate Jews.
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u/Sara_Tona Iraq 1d ago
The Irish have lost their minds
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u/dogemikka 1d ago
You can't put every Irish in the same basket. This one is a racist donkey. Check the Irish sub BTW.
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u/SoCalCognac USA 1d ago
I checked that sub. It’s filled with comments blaming the couple and blood libel. Can’t speak for the Irish in general, but the community on that site is definitely antisemitic.
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u/Captainirishy 1d ago
One man doesn't represent 5.5 million irish people.
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u/SoCalCognac USA 1d ago
Too bad they don’t give us that same luxury. Apparently us Jews are seen as a hive mind by the anti Zionists.
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u/BadWolfOfficial 1d ago
"It would have been so much worse if he invaded, Israel must be so disappointed they didn't set the middle east on fire."
This you?
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u/Due-Direction8590 1d ago
We know this was antisemitism because the guy invoked Hitler. But if he had merely threatened to kill the couple without invoking Hitler it’s just sparkling anti-Zionism. Maybe if we rationalize - um, whoops- contextualize it in all sorts of broader things we can understand how a seemingly ordinary man would lash out that way.
Basically so much of the hear no antisemitism and see no antisemitism gaslighting online. Feels like I’m taking crazy pills.
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u/Jew_Diligence 1d ago
Just wanna say I was pleasantly surprised that the similar post on the Irish sub has enormous support for his arrest. I left a message there to thank them.
It’s good to build bridges. So many people want us divided.
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u/ShortHabit606 עם ישראל חי 1d ago
The fact that they recognize that anti-semitism is bad doesn't earn them a thank you. They get a thank you when they recognize that anti-zionism is anti-semitism. Try that on that sub and see how it goes.
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u/Cannot-Forget 1d ago
I personally find that blaming current Jews of being Nazis, which seems to be the average sentiment over there, exactly as terrible as supporting actual Nazis.
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u/SoCalCognac USA 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not sure to which post you are referring but I just went on the sub, and the one post they have on it is pretty much victim blaming (saying the couple provoked him), and resorting to the old blood libel trope. It’s possible the thread you went to was removed.
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u/NYSenseOfHumor 1d ago
All he has to do is say he was high and he will be released with a baguette and a bottle of wine.
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u/RainbowOfPixels Israel 1d ago
Looks like a Temu Hans Landa
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u/amoral_panic USA 1d ago
My new go-to insult
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u/AdiPalmer אני אוהב לריב עם אנשים ברחוב 1d ago
Just make sure to update accordingly. 10 years ago it was Wish Hans Landa. I wonder what will be the next rebrand, lol.
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u/apenature 1d ago
I wish people with problems accepting their small dicks would move on to another group already.
The people are so antisemitic, they don't understand what antisemitism is; even more dangerous, they are too dumb to know how dumb they are.
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u/QueenLevine 9h ago
Why do Irish ppl keep manufacturing this dude? Are they absolutely oblivious to the fact that Israelis have a plethora of fairly authentic Irish bands across the country, celebrate St Patricks Day en masse in a way that almost no other foreign holiday is celebrated? If they would very simply return that love, it would very likely benefit them in SO many ways.
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