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No Prospect for Peace: Two-thirds of Arab-Palestinians Support “Armed Struggle”

A majority of Arab-Palestinians do not favour peaceful methods to achieve independent statehood… Continue reading

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Some Theories on the Boston Marathon Bombing

Some thoughts on the source of the attack… Continue reading

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The Hypocrisy of the Irish Teachers Boycott of Israel

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland became the first European trade union involved with education and academia to adopt a resolution calling on its members to cease all cultural and academic collaboration with Israel… Continue reading

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Norwegian Government Finds Arab-Palestinian Anti-Semitism Acceptable

Incitement by the Palestinian Authority against Jewish people and the Jewish State is a reality, but acceptable as part of an ongoing political battle… Continue reading

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Rising anti-Semitism at the Sunday Times?

The Sunday Times publishes anti-Semitic cartoon showing Netanyahu building a brick wall with blood of Palestinians… Continue reading

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Did Hamas Engineer Border Violence to Extract a Dangerous Concession from Israel?

Conflict at the Gaza border on the 23rd November, in which one Palestinian man was shot dead by the IDF, has added to the noise made by supporters of the Palestinian cause that Israel was aggressor in the November 2012 violence… Continue reading

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Manufacturing blood libel: Hamas’ propaganda war

Intensive propaganda campaigns led by Palestinian terrorist groups are perhaps the most predictable occurrence when it comes to any minor or major conflict involving Israel… Continue reading

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Vincent Browne and the Israeli “cancer” that poisons Western foreign policy

Controversy erupted when firebrand left-wing Irish broadcaster Vincent Browne referred to Israel as a “cancer”… Continue reading

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The EU at war with Israel: The prospect of an Irish-led EU-wide boycott

The moral hypocrisy behind a boycott of Jewish West Bank settlements… Continue reading

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Another notch in the bully-boy bedpost of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign

The BDS movement can chalk up another minor victory when the Irish folk band Dervish were forced to pull out of a concert in Israel recently, after yet another anti-Israel onslaught by the pro-Palestinian IPSC… Continue reading

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Yet another low point in the BDS Movement

Delegates at the recent General Convention of the United Methodist Church approved a resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli goods made in the West Bank… Continue reading

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David Ofek and the Ethics of Documentary in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Fíorscéal usually repackage French made programmes for an Irish language audience by doing little more than adding a very brief introduction to the topic… Continue reading

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Inciting fear of Israel at the Sunday Times?

It is bizarre for the headline to focus exclusively on Israel… Continue reading

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Dervla Murphy seeks the dissolution of the Jewish State – Part 2

The second part of this article analyses the views of the critics that Murphy quotes as a test of their credability… Continue reading

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Dervla Murphy seeks the dissolution of the Jewish State – Part 1

Part one of this article looks at the broad issues surrounding Dervla Murphy’s open letter… Continue reading

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Closer Ties or Further Diplomatic Tension between Israel and Ireland?

The Knesset speaker’s visit to Ireland, Irish F.M. Eamon Gilmore’s visit to Gaza, and the looming visit of an anti-Israeli Irish President… Continue reading

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Knesset speaker visits Ireland: “It is legitimate to criticise us but first you must know the facts”

Ireland and Israel have had a less than harmonious relationship over the years so the significance of Mr. Rivlin’s visit has been highlighted by Israeli officials, noting that high-level bilateral contact between Ireland and Israel are relatively rare… Continue reading

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The Visit of a Hamas leader to Tunisia, the Arab Spring, and crass pro-Palestinian apologism

When Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ leader in the Gaza Strip, visited Tunisia, he was met with an ecstatic welcome from both the Tunisian public and authorities alike… Continue reading

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Something is rotten in Reuters

With the comedy of the UN obsessing over Israel this week, and the Durban III Conference, where the acceptable face of racism will hold sway, it is perhaps appropriate to look at the anti-Israel bias of the biggest international news agency in the world… Continue reading

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Would UN Palestinian Statehood destroy any chance of an equitable peace?

Such a move is expected to cause an environment of intensified strife… Continue reading

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Survey: Palestinian Extremism Alive and Well in 2011

With The Palestinian Authority seeking UN recognition of a Palestinian state this month in New York… Continue reading

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Jesus Christ: The – politically correct – Way

A widely syndicated article by Reuters raises a number of important ethical questions about the media today… Continue reading

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Eilat Terror Attack: A most peculiar use of language

With the recent tragic events where Palestinian terrorists killed nine Israeli civilians… Continue reading

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Basic untruths and omissions in the mainstream media aid Palestinianism

A new video by Ayalon alludes to the point that the mainstream media continually forwards certain basic fabrications of the historical record… Continue reading

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Legal issues and the Flotilla: Further points in the argument over the blockade

The legality and morality of Israel’s blockade has been questioned extensively and is the supposed subject of sustained and extensive protest… Continue reading

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Legal issues and the Flotilla: Can Greece legitimately prevent the flotilla sailing to Gaza?

There has been a lot of outrage in the last week over Greece’s decision not to allow several flotilla ships sail from its docks to Gaza… Continue reading

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The Many Vices of Richard Boyd-Barrett

Richard Boyd-Barrett: Populist disingenuous hard leftism, support for Islamicist terror and advocacy for the destruction of Israel… Continue reading

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Ireland vs. Israel for the 2006 World Cup – some telling contrasts

Ireland met Israel for two memorable world cup qualifier matches in 2005, both turned out to be draws. The initial match in March in Tel Aviv was an extremely… Continue reading

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Mary Robinson – Ireland’s Greatest In Pro-Palestinianism

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has probably done more harm to Israel than any other Irish citizen. She was United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002 and was the architect of the Durban I anti-racism conference in 2001. Last year… Continue reading

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Cliona Campbell’s Claims and Wall’s Wily Whitewash

Cliona Campbell, a University Student, did two months of voluntary work for the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) this year. This act was unusual for a number of reasons. Was she a Jewish volunteer? No. Was she a member of an… Continue reading