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Two Israeli diplomats got shot and killed, in DC last night, by an activist shouting "Free Free Palestine".

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It is rather interesting to note the media is fairly quiet about the thing.

A clearly antisemitic terrorist attack in support of Hamas and the Intifada is quite something. And should be treated as such.

But the usual ones are remaining silent on it, focusing on Trump calling out S-A's president about the killing of white farmers.


You know... priorities and such.

In addition to the fact it is much less risky to go for the Trump thing than the terrorist attack. We don't want to look like we are condoning the attack, but we don't want to look like we are supporting Israel either. Public image is a fickle mistress.
 
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Good.

But these Irish lads are surfing on the cringe wave of their forefathers. It is cool to hate, it is cool to be PIRA, terrorism is trendy and such.

The fight! The cause! The struggle!

Hating the jews is also cool and hype. It's edgy. It sells. It gives you street cred. And it gets you laid.
 
The DC shooter who murdered two Israeli diplomats could be facing the death penalty.

Hopefully he does.

Unfortunately that will possibly turn him into a martyr.
 
It is rather interesting to note the media is fairly quiet about the thing.

A clearly antisemitic terrorist attack in support of Hamas and the Intifada is quite something. And should be treated as such.

But the usual ones are remaining silent on it, focusing on Trump calling out S-A's president about the killing of white farmers.


You know... priorities and such.

In addition to the fact it is much less risky to go for the Trump thing than the terrorist attack. We don't want to look like we are condoning the attack, but we don't want to look like we are supporting Israel either. Public image is a fickle mistress.
You must have been reading the wrong media, because this was all over the news, even bbc.
 
You must have been reading the wrong media, because this was all over the news, even bbc.

No, not really.

Proportion wise, that is, most of the media I have come across are mostly focusing on either Biden's health or the Trump-SA president thing.

The coverage isn't that massive.
 
Good.

But these Irish lads are surfing on the cringe wave of their forefathers. It is cool to hate, it is cool to be PIRA, terrorism is trendy and such.

The fight! The cause! The struggle!

Hating the jews is also cool and hype. It's edgy. It sells. It gives you street cred. And it gets you laid.
Ireland is really weird about Israel and Jews in general. I'm not sure if it's the after-effects of dogmatic Catholic anti-Judaism or unreflected solidarisation with the "oppressed" due to Ireland's own history. Either way, they're annoying as hell.
 
Ireland is really weird about Israel and Jews in general. I'm not sure if it's the after-effects of dogmatic Catholic anti-Judaism or unreflected solidarisation with the "oppressed" due to Ireland's own history. Either way, they're annoying as hell.

One would think, yes.

Ireland wise, Jews have never been very big in the country. Very small number of them and usually viewed with contempt from both the British and the Irish (even more so by the Irish).
De Valera did have a law passed to protect the Jews in the early 30ies, in views to what was happening to them in Europe, but his foreign minister in Germany was a big simp for Hitler.
Not huge anti-semitism overall, but just a profound indifference to the Holocaust. When Jews were going back home after WW2 or went sent abroad as refugees, Ireland was reluctant to have them back because "that would only exacerbate anti-semitism", only for De Valera to overrule de decision and allow 150 children to be let in.

Then you have the Church in Ireland, adding another layer.

But when it comes to PIRA, and other terroristic revolutionary movements fighting "the oppressor", they came together because they saw Israel as an oppressor. Leading to lots of budying and cozuing with violent "revolutionary groups" and terrorist organizations because they shared a common cause. ETA, FLNC, Red Brigades, etc..
 
New knife attack in Germany.

12 wounded, so far but number is rising apparently, at the main train station in Hamburg.
 
Update: The perpetrator is a 39-year-old female. Her face is mostly blurred in the news, but she appears to be blonde.
 
One would think, yes.

Ireland wise, Jews have never been very big in the country. Very small number of them and usually viewed with contempt from both the British and the Irish (even more so by the Irish).
De Valera did have a law passed to protect the Jews in the early 30ies, in views to what was happening to them in Europe, but his foreign minister in Germany was a big simp for Hitler.
Not huge anti-semitism overall, but just a profound indifference to the Holocaust. When Jews were going back home after WW2 or went sent abroad as refugees, Ireland was reluctant to have them back because "that would only exacerbate anti-semitism", only for De Valera to overrule de decision and allow 150 children to be let in.

Then you have the Church in Ireland, adding another layer.

But when it comes to PIRA, and other terroristic revolutionary movements fighting "the oppressor", they came together because they saw Israel as an oppressor. Leading to lots of budying and cozuing with violent "revolutionary groups" and terrorist organizations because they shared a common cause. ETA, FLNC, Red Brigades, etc..
 

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