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[Joth @joth_ga]

@RachelMoiselle As a side note, the photo on the right is a bad photomontage (mismatch in lighting, scale, contrast). Not to say such scenes aren’t documented, but preferring kitsch visual symmetry, forced as it may be, over basic accuracy is a perfect metaphor for this entire movement.

[Joth @joth_ga]

@Daniel_Sugarman One of Netanyahu's many projects dismantling state institutions was the takeover of the MFA. Since 2018 he has stripped it of budgets and replaced professional diplomats with his goons. Israel has no foreign service because Netanyahu gutted it.

[Joth @joth_ga]

@jimmyjazz0123 בן ממשיך הוא מי שיורש את המשק המשפחתי במושב בלבד. כלומר, זה מעמד משפטי שלא קשור בשום צורה לקיבוצים או התנחלויות שאינן מושב.

[Joth @joth_ga]

@MarkDor44169220 @Independent_ie ~1,200 people in Israel (mostly civilians) were deliberately killed by Hamas on Oct 7.
Tens of thousands in Gaza died in the war: a mix of fighters, civilians & indirect causes amid urban warfare where Hamas embeds among civilians. Killed = targeted intent. Died = varied causes.

[Joth @joth_ga]

@thewookieewon @LizHurra It's awful, he's an awful man, but it's important to quote him accurately. The word he used is an internal slur used by Jews against other Jews. He's implying they are submissive court Jews who sell out their own people.

[Joth @joth_ga]

@Andy_2000x @PhelimMcAleer There was no official state data collection in Ireland until last year. The report published by the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland this March paints a different picture. I personally know of more than 1 incident between Oct 25 and Nov 25
https://t.co/N9D0vQv6C3

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

Good morning, everyone.

The Jewish Representative Council of Ireland’s report on antisemitism is released today.

I include links to Irish coverage on the report below and I will be writing a few separate posts on the contents of the report.

The JRCI recorded 143 incidents in a 6 month period, between July 2025 and January 2026. This is a very high concentration of harm for such a tiny population (under 2,300). These incidents *exclude* social media abuse, which will be analysed separately in the future.

This report provides ‘measurable evidence of antisemitic harm occurring across Irish society. These findings raise serious concerns for public policy, institutional governance, and social cohesion.’

A key takeaway is the institutional nature of this problem: ‘Respondents in the survey also describe inconsistent institutional handling, including minimisation, misclassification, or reluctance to explicitly recognise antisemitism. Such responses risk compounding harm and undermining trust.’

We were not lying. We were trying to highlight a problem in this country which we now have conclusive proof exists. And we were branded as traitors for it.

[Joth @joth_ga]

@Andy_2000x @PhelimMcAleer This map is fake. It cites a TAU report as a source, but Ireland isn't even mentioned in it (it's easily available online). The truth is that there's no comprehensive official data for Ireland because up until last year it wasn't systematically collected.

https://t.co/iY7eJo9bRv

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

Just as an update: it’s actually worse than I thought. The entire graph was faked.

I just looked through the report that the graph was supposed to be from and there is not only no graph in the document, but Ireland wasn’t part of this study at all. The study only covers countries with large Jewish populations and reliable data-sharing. So it seems a random person made this map citing the Tel Aviv University study - and then posted it on Reddit where it then spread across Irish social media - with a completely made up number for Ireland.

So Irish Twitter had no problem, for 2.5 years, spreading this random fake graph. And yet they immediately disregard and view as suspect a very careful study conducted by the Irish Jewish community, one that was at pains to outline its limitations (claiming only to ‘offer a community-generated baseline of lived experience that previously had no systematic public record in Ireland’).

I’m going to lose my mind. I’m so serious.

[Ireland Israel Alliance @irlisrAlliance]

Superb letter in today's Irish Times from Dr Peter Boylan.

"Anti-Israel sentiment seems to me uniquely
obsessive in this country, amplified in media and public discourse to a greater extent than elsewhere outside Israel’s traditional enemies. Particularly disturbing is the inconsistency of outrage [...]

"Irish people can claim all we might that anti-Semitism and Israelophobia are not the significant problems I believe them to be in our country, but we should not be surprised if much of the rest of the world begs to differ."

[Joth @joth_ga]

@amit7itz @WikiBias הרבה ערכים שנוגעים בישראל, ביהודים ובסכסוך עברו שכתוב מסיבי בשנים האחרונות.
https://t.co/JjvKBj3hAh

[Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝ @MarkZlochin]

² I started with the "Zionism" article - the conceptual and narrative core of Wikipedia's entire coverage of the conflict.
Turns out that after the takeover only about 20% of the pre-October-2023 article survived, while the other 80% had been effectively replaced.⏬

[Joth @joth_ga]

@Kohonos234 @Kasparov63 Nothing to do with religion.

https://t.co/CxQKNWDwAb

[Joth @joth_ga]

Jews are not only adherents of a religion. We are a people with shared ancestry, historical memory, familial ties and homeland. One is not less Jewish for being non-observant. Many Jews are not religious at all.
https://t.co/2S63O2MQzk

[Joth @joth_ga]

@Brenbyrn2 @kilkeeman It isn't a single religion dictating them, though. Israel's marriage system is fragmented into separate communal jurisdictions rather than a civil one. You don't seem to understand how it works at all.

[Joth @joth_ga]

I hope @PatLeahyIT is reading the replies to his tweet. carefully. They’re a fairly vivid illustration of what "perception taking hold" looks like in practice.

[Pat Leahy @PatLeahyIT]

Maybe we should ask Ireland’s small population of Jews what they think about anti-Semitism

https://t.co/pNjEJXj2uX

[Joth @joth_ga]

@ccallahan @christianjbdev What you think you know about your schoolmates is anecdotal. More importantly, you're speaking for a handful of Jews and extrapolating from that. Diaspora Jews generally have substantial family, communal, cultural, or religious ties to Israel.

[Joth @joth_ga]

@nfarouky @christianjbdev No, it's really simple. Diaspora communities often have ties to a homeland. Using those ties to justify hostility toward them is prejudice. Nobody struggles with this principle in any other case; making an exception for Jews is antisemitic.

[Joth @joth_ga]

@sqrtminus_1 @christianjbdev 45%-48% of world Jewry is close enough to half for any honest reading of my tweet.

[David@TOPCHEFS 🌐 @TOPCHEFSIE]

I can't remember anything quite like this, at any time in my lifetime. I suspect that, outside of some of the more irredentist Arab states, there hasn't been a state-mandated campaign of defamation — and let's call it what it is, anti Jewish hate-mongering — on such a scale and for such a prolonged period since late stage Weimar Republic Germany. Our media in general (almost all of whom relay on government payment) and especially the government broadcaster, RTE, seem to only reluctantly cover anything other than Israel. It's reached such degree of myopic focus that it can only be described as monomaniacal.

Most worryingly it disgraces us as a people. I would be less bothered if RTÉ were doing this on their own steam, but the fact that they are a state-funded broadcaster makes it worse. We are now looking at a lost generation here. A generation of young people who've been so propagandised that there isn't even a western contemporary point of comparison. It will take a long time to de-radicalize large sections of the Irish population from the effects of this state mandated brainwashing. It's disastrous for us and subsequent generations will try, and fail, to live this down long after we’re all gone.

These are dark days for Ireland and we as a people will be tainted by the antics of a select few members of official Ireland in the media, academia, and politics for decades to come.

The darkly comic backdrop to this is that its happening in the aftermath of Ireland having just played an entirely optional, and pointless, friendly against the slave state of Qatar, one of the middle east's top two funders of terrorism who hosted the architects of October 7th, the event with precipitated all the tragic loss of life in the Gaza conflict over the last few years.

I no longer have the foggiest what will do us the most damage, playing Israel, or not playing them. I'm beyond even arguing about whether that game should go ahead or not. I suspect that official Ireland has poisoned the well so completely now that the prospect of this match taking place fills me with pure foreboding and dread.

[Joth @joth_ga]

@DorDugy הצבעתי צחי גראד אבל הלב אומר זוהר שטראוס

[Joth @joth_ga]

@bing_bong_banjo Part of what makes this difficult is that even decent well-meaning people often don’t see what many Jews in Ireland are experiencing right now.

https://t.co/wClJZ7M9jH

[Joth @joth_ga]

This is a sensitive gesture recognising a blind spot.
I will note however that “person of the Jewish faith” may sound polite to non-Jews, but most of us wouldn't describe ourselves that way. It’s clearly well-intentioned, but it reflects a broader confusion about what Jews are.