I would assume that most readers know that I am Irish. My genetic testing documenting over 80% Irish ancestry.
I have traveled to Ireland four or five times and have always been proud to be of Irish descent … until now!
Why is that you might ask?
From Daybreak Insider:
The Irish government, which has openly displayed its hatred for Israel in recent years, took another step targeting the Jewish state, becoming the first country in Europe to introduce legislation forbidding imports from the Biblical areas of Judea and Samaria.
Irish Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister and former Prime Minister Simon Harris introduced a bill titled the General Scheme of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill. It was passed by the Irish government and now must be approved by the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade for Pre-Legislative Scrutiny.
Former Justice and Equality Minister and Defense Minister Alan Shatter ripped Harris on X, writing, “Only Simon Harris and our current government could be so foolish as to create the acronym PIGS to reference a new law that targets & boycotts Jewish-produced goods. … The gov has now proudly published its own farcical version of the Occupied Territories Bill (OTB), the first time since the defeat of Nazi Germany that any European gov has promoted a law to specifically boycott Jewish produced goods & criminalise those who import them.”
TNow I get old century old England-Ireland relationship and how that could be metaphorically somewhat similar to the Israel-Palestine relationship, but T his is not the Ireland that I have visited multiple times. This is not the heritage from which I have descended, and I am not proud of what is spewing from the Irish government!
7/1/25