A Major Scandal is Unfolding – Ireland's Anti-Semitism is Disgusting
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This is a sad and infuriating episode of the Ann and Phelim Scoop podcast.
Recently a story broke about how the Irish national theatre (the Abbey Theatre) rejected a private showing of our OCTOBER 7 play.
Basically we thought it was important that people in Ireland knew the truth about what happened in Israel on October 7, what really caused the war in Gaza.
So we applied to do a private hire of the Abbey Theatre. Their response shocked us.
It was to be an event for both Jewish and non-jews in Ireland, so they could hear an alternative point of view.
But it seems that anti-semitism is powerful in the new Progressive Ireland.
This is why Ireland is known as the most anti-semitic country in Europe (and that is a very competitive grouping).
When you listen to today’s podcast, you’ll learn how the Abbey prides themselves on “diversity” but excludes voices and ideas they don’t like and just wait until you see what they do allow on stage when it comes to Israel!
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| 0:00.0 | So Ireland has been in the headlines recently when Michael Higgins, the president of Ireland, |
| 0:09.7 | decided to use a Holocaust memorial event to give a speech that downplayed the Holocaust and attacked Israel. |
| 0:18.5 | One Jewish woman stood up and turned her back on him for doing that, and she was dragged out of the event. Other Jewish people walked out. The president was asked not to speak at the event because he has a history. This is no accidental insult to Israel or to the Holocaust. |
| 0:41.8 | He has peddled anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and written love letters to the president of Iran. |
| 0:48.8 | So he was asked not to speak at the event. He ignored that. He was asked not to make it political. |
| 0:55.2 | He ignored that. |
| 0:56.4 | So this, there is a context to this. |
| 1:01.7 | As we've often said in this podcast, Ireland is one of the most anti-Semitic countries in Europe. |
| 1:05.9 | And that's a very competitive field. |
| 1:07.6 | Yes. |
| 1:09.2 | Yes. One town was like, for example, I mean, there's so many examples. |
| 1:12.5 | One town was forced to cancel their 4th of July fireworks celebration they had every year |
| 1:17.8 | because it was a celebration of America that was somehow connected to Jewish Zionists. |
| 1:25.2 | Who knows? |
| 1:26.8 | Then another pub, but just for an example, a pub quite near where I was brought up, has a had and still has a sign that says Zionists are not allowed in this pub. We'll put that photograph up there. Yeah, there it is. Zionists not allowed in this pub. This is, you know, Irish pubs are known throughout the world. Like, they're an |
| 1:44.8 | international brand, the Irish pub. It's a welcoming place, a place of fun, a place of joy, a place of |
| 1:50.3 | welcoming. It's in the name. A house for the public, a public house. Unless you're a Jew. Unless you're a |
| 1:56.4 | Jew in Ireland. In fact, it was Ireland's reaction to the October 7 massacres that inspired us to |
| 2:02.8 | write the October 7 play. That inspired us to go to Israel, in fact, in the first place. We were |
| 2:06.8 | in Ireland when the attack happened on October 7th in Israel. And we were completely shocked |
| 2:14.0 | by the reaction of people in Ireland who immediately, immediately went on to talk about Gaza, |
| 2:20.3 | went on to talk about electricity being put off, to talk about anything other than the worst |
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