You're comparing apples to anti-aircraft missiles. The Irish-American lobby isn’t funding a nuclear-armed ethnostate carrying out a live-streamed genocide. It isn’t shaping foreign policy through billions in military aid while silencing dissent at home. It isn’t criminalizing protest or rewriting textbooks.
No one gets fired, blacklisted, or labeled a bigot for opposing the Irish occupation of Boston—because there is no Irish occupation of Boston.
What you call “mad conspiracy theories” are, in many cases, well-documented truths about how pro-Israel lobbying distorts U.S. policy, shields war crimes, and exports repression.
The difference?
The Irish lobby isn’t laundering a settler-colonial project.
The Irish lobby isn’t demanding unquestioning loyalty.
And most of all, the Irish lobby isn’t crying persecution every time someone says,
“Stop killing children.”
So yes, we see the difference. Crystal clear.