Is the Irish left anti-Semitic?

[Halibut]

Here it is. Spain has translated more books in the last year (2003?) than the entire Muslim world has published. Ever.

Does that include Turkey? Because I strongly suspect that if so your claim is wrong. Turkey appears to have a vibrant intellectual life to the casual observer.

MM

Bugger, I really mangled that quotation. Here it is, in all its glory. I forget why I posted initially. "Spain translates in a single year as much as the Arab world has translated in the past millenium". Source UNDP (AHDR) report 2003 http://hdr.undp.org/reports/detail_reports.cfm?view=712 I forget the page it appears in. Possibly Chapter 6.

[Riadach]

Doesn't reflect much on their capabilities in literature, but rather on the fact they're more inward looking then outward looking.

[khavakoz]

I don't think he's that far from the mainstream, at least not the mainstream Zionist supporters on here.

You think a Kahane Chai isn't far from the mainstream of israeli opinion? This alone would probably constitute an antisemitic statement under the eu definitions of same.

Kahane Chai is listed as a terrorist organisation by the Israeli government, the European Union, the US State Department &c &c. Given the usual attitude displayed in these forums to organisations which feature this roll call of shame, I await my instruction on how Kahane Chai is really just about all the social work and hospitals they fund.

[TerryKaplan]

Of course the Irish left is vicously anti-semitic, one needs only to look at the admiration so many of them have for well known anti-semite propagandists such as Rosa Luxemburg, Tony Cliff, Murray Bookchin, Leon Trotsky, Emma Goldmann, Karl Marx, Noam Chomsky etc etc...
They really hate Jews these people.

[yanshuf]

Wwell, Terry, Chomsky is quite enough as an evidence to the Irish left's anti-semitism.

[edg]

I was held up in town (Dublin) today (Saturday 8th June, 2007) by a rally of the lefties calling for an end to the occupation of Palestine. It was a pretty pitiful display of the usual sorts, long greasy hair and unkempt looks with clothes that didn't fit them.

I've never seen a demo in Dublin any time that Israeli school-kids are blown to pieces on a bus by a terrorist bombing. Why is this, I wonder?

Could it be that the protesters are anti-Semitic?

I have seen Jewish people protesting at the Dail that our Government was not supporting their war on the Palestinians.

But I have never seen a Jewish group protesting that the Irish school children who were abused were treated so poorly by the Irish gov.

Could it be that those protesters hate Irish people?

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