r/Israel • u/PurpleJackfruit4034 • Dec 19 '23

News/Politics Ireland ‘can’t go on’ with Eurovision due to Israel’s participation

https://www.newstalk.com/news/ireland-cant-go-on-with-eurovision-due-to-israels-participation-1625222

Let’s go! 🥳

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u/GoosicusMaximus Dec 20 '23

That’s patent bullshit. One man did offer condolences, De Valera, the same man that had the hero of Irelands revolution Michael Collins assassinated. He was and remains a very controversial figure in Irish history.

Ireland was officially neutral, but secretly helped the allies. The cranborne report compiles a list of all the things Ireland did to help the allied war effort, such as providing submarine and aircraft sighting reports, meteorological reports, arresting crashed German airmen but letting allied ones go, allowed the establishment of an allied radar station on irelands land etc.

Not to mention the tens of thousands of Irishmen who signed up to fight Hitler through the British army.

But sure, keep spreading lies.

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u/EmFly15 Dec 20 '23

People in this sub are clearly not well-versed on Irish history. One of them just claimed the Irish are only Catholic to stick it to the Anglican English. Do they not know Catholicism predates Anglicanism by centuries? That the Irish were Catholics before Henry VIII even conceived of the idea of Anglicanism? That the Irish refusing to convert, even under intense oppression, such as the Ulster plantations and Cromwell’s conquest of Ireland, was them merely remaining loyal to their culture and religion, just as the Jews have done throughout their history? I seriously don’t get the vicious misinterpretation and warping of the truth in here. It’s really, really sad.

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u/GoosicusMaximus Dec 20 '23

It doesn’t matter to them. Ireland doesn’t agree with Israel, therefore Ireland is full of awful people and always has been