Sinn Féin Watch

[Sinn Féin Watch @SFWatch1998]

Sinn Féin Watch is not an anti-SF organisation. Rather SF Watch seeks to ensure that SF are a contributor to our democracy - not a threat. This means challenging their rhetoric & actions.

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[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

Timely and thought-provoking piece from Oliver Sears @Holocaust_Irl on how @RTELateLateShow audience’s real-time reaction is a classic behaviour of the bystander - one that mirrors the silence of those who condemn attacks on other minorities, who boycott Israel, yet won’t speak out for the Jewish people.

"When Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate said, “silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented” he was referring to the bystander, a term that embraces the apathetic, the passive, the opportunist and those paralysed with fear. Bystanders represent the largest demographic; it is they who permit the destruction of democracy and all that follows."

https://t.co/5keW7w6mF2

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

A major US multinational reportedly pulled plans to create 300 jobs in Northern Ireland due to concerns about Sinn Fein’s stance on Israel/Gaza conflict. @MichealMartinTD @HMcEntee please take note.

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[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

Why did Ireland reopen an embassy in Iran in late 2023? What is the embassy's function? What is the nature of the Irish government’s relationship with a despotic regime that hangs gays and dissenters from cranes, polices women’s clothing and exports terror across the Middle East?

[𝑻𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒂 @etc_tess]

The #HandsOffHerzogPark petition to @DubCityCouncil went live Thursday evening at 9:30pm. Just 16 hours later, it has over 3,500 signatures! 👏👏👏

https://t.co/PWDyHHt0oc

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

Ireland's Chief Rabbi Yoni Wieder in today's Irish Times on the scandalous, divisive and mean-spirited attempt by @DubCityCouncil to rename Herzog Park in Dublin - a small park situated in the heart of Ireland's small Jewish community where they have lived for generations, and which is next to the only two Jewish schools in the country.

"At its core, the debate around Herzog Park is about what kind of city Dublin wants to be. Ireland takes much pride in being inclusive, welcoming and multicultural; a country that embraces diversity and stands up for minorities. Allowing the divisive deletion of a piece of Irish-Jewish heritage from a neighbourhood park would betray those values and embolden those who seek to further marginalise Jewish people in this country.

Despite the hardships of recent times, our community has remained resilient and positive. We will continue to thrive, no matter what. But symbolic acts matter and echo far beyond signage. Keeping the Herzog name on this park would not only honour a central chapter of shared history, it would also affirm something vital: that Jewish heritage, Jewish belonging and Jewish life are still welcome in Dublin."

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[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

US Administration speaks publicly for the first time on the dangerous and divisive Boycott Bill currently being advanced in Dáil Éireann.

"This legislation is unhelpful virtue-signaling. It does not serve the cause of peace in the Middle East.”👇

https://t.co/IqeTFSPsO6

[𝑻𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒂 @etc_tess]

.@tcddublin is added to Florida State Board Administration’s list of “Scrutinized Companies or Other Entities that Boycott Israel” and faces losing its exchange programme with the University of Florida’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
#stopBDS

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

A letter was sent today to Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD signed by 23 members of the United States Congress regarding Ireland's proposed boycott legislation and Ireland's intervention at the ICJ.

A copy of the letter to the Taoiseach can be accessed here:

https://t.co/w2e87F0bTJ

Release from Congress member Gottheimer @Josh4Jersey can be accessed here:

https://t.co/ZkiJt1xBFr

As we can see, significant opposition to Ireland’s position on Israel is building among political leaders in the United States.

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

Message from the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland following the appalling terrorist attack against Jewish worshippers on the solemn and holy day of Yom Kippur 💔😔

"We are heartbroken by the Yom Kippur attack at Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, where two worshippers were murdered and others left injured in a vile act of anti semitism.
An assault on a synagogue, a place of prayer and peace,is an assault on all of us.
The Jewish Representative Council of Ireland stands with Manchester’s Jewish community and the Board of Deputies of British Jews, in grief, in solidarity, and in the call for safety and protection for every Jewish community.
May the memory of the victims be a blessing, and may the injured find healing”. #StandTogether #NeverAgain

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

Quite incredible! Christian worship music is currently flooding the internet across mainstream media outlets as the State Farm Stadium in Glendale Arizona fills for Charlie Kirk's Memorial Service.

"You take what the enemy meant for evil, and You turn it for good" 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

In 2020 the IIA commissioned a Report on Antisemitism in Ireland. We found Irish politicians obsessed with attacking Israel & Zionism. This anti-Jewish racism spreads within the corridors of power and is as much driven from the top down as the reverse. 🔗https://t.co/HXQIU7GoFp

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

Roscommon Cllr Tom Crosby warns Irish Government's planned Boycott Bill poses "serious economic risks” and damage to Ireland’s international standing. He has urged Irish Gov to “act now to prevent an economic disaster that could harm generations to come.”
https://t.co/mSPRT0H32k

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

Did @rtenews not receive the memo?

Shockingly and disgracefully, RTÉ published an article yesterday that contains a photo of Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, the child who suffered 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - as the RTÉ photo caption below explicitly states - but rather 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 (as the New York Times has already stated in their own weak clarification).

The child in the photo actually suffers from a rare genetic condition. To use this unfortunate child's undoubted suffering to further a political agenda is beyond contemptible!

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐞.

Now ask yourself - what else has the media misrepresented?

We have lodged a complaint with RTÉ Head of News and await an apology and clarification. Truth matters!

🔗 https://t.co/LRtZXqap8b

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

At best, we're a laughing stock in the US because of the idiocy and blindness of our elected representatives, obsessively pushing for the PIGs bill.

And @MichealMartinTD response to US criticism citing 'the situation in Gaza' is disingenuous. PIGs has NOTHING to do with Gaza.

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

Final discussions just before the IIA and JRCI went into the Dáil Foreign Affairs & Trade Committee room to present our witness statements against the PIGs bill yesterday. With Ireland's Chief Rabbi Yoni Wieder, Chair Jewish Rep. Council of Ireland Maurice Cohen and former Justice Minister @Alan__Shatter. Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia joined us via video link 🇮🇪🇮🇱

Executive Director of the IIA, Jackie Goodall said: "Today’s hearing showed how out of touch the Oireachtas is with international opinion. From Brussels to Washington, our reputation is being defined by our obsessive targeting of the world’s only Jewish State.

As if to demonstrate this, the Chair of the Committee sought to indemnify all members of the Oireachtas and claim there was not one antisemite in the House. Sadly, experience tells us different.

If Congressman and Senators in America can see the rot, it is a wonder our own politicians cannot. Yesterday, the truth was told to the Committee. Will they listen? That remains to be seen. One way or the other, the consensus and groupthink of Irish politicians on Israel appears set, but Dáil record now shows that they were warned."

[Keith Mills @KeithMillsD7]

Dear God, to be this level of ignorant of the history of the region is bad, but to actually put that ignorance onto the parliamentary record demonstrates mind-numbing levels of brainwashing.

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

This is deeply concerning. We have written to @JohnLahart asking that the Ireland Israel Alliance be afforded an opportunity to address this Bill before the Foreign Affairs Committee.

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

The timing of Israel's strike on the Iranian regime today was crucial, as over the past 12 months the regime was found to be secretively assembling 15 nuclear bombs - a plan that Israel uncovered. A substantial part of those capabilities were destroyed today. Am Yisrael Chai!💙🇮🇱

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

About 150 ballistic missiles were launched at Israel, with the majority being intercepted. Another wave is now its way. Millions of Israelis are currently in bomb shelters. Pray for the people of Israel, for the Irish community living there and for those who are visiting 🙏🏻💙🇮🇱

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

What an ignorant and disgusting post!