Ireland’s troubling response to the Israel attacks

It’s a widely known secret within Israeli diplomatic circles that Ireland is seen as something of a lost cause. 

While the Irish left is quick to react with fury to any accusations of anti-Semitism, insisting instead that they are merely opposed to Zionism and the Israeli government’s policies, sometimes that seems a distinction without a difference. This week has certainly been one of those times. 

As the true horrors of what happened in Israel began to emerge this weekend, I naively remarked to my wife that maybe, just maybe, this might be the moment when the Irish people who seem to hate Israel with an implacable fury finally see what it is like to live in the only democracy in the region. 

‘Don’t bet on it,’ she replied. ‘Have you seen what they’re writing on Twitter?’ 

Before the bodies were even cold, there was an air of grotesque exultation on many Irish social media sites, with the hashtag #karma attached to countless posts. It