Branding those opposed to Netanyahu policies antisemitic is ‘slander’ – Irish President

Exactly right. Gaza is being “ethnically cleansed.”

Totally echo the Irish president's sentiments. To be called antisemitic for wanting peace between Palestine and Israel is slanderous. Being pro-Palestinian isn't condoning the actions of Hamas who killed 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, not it isn't, or is it defending yourself when an army slaughters 55,000 innocient starving civilians using 2000lb dumb-bombs on refugees in tents and hospitals I recently saw pictures, before and after, of Gaza. It was horrific. Benjamin Netanyahu calls his army "the most moral in the world". Outrageous. Gaza is gone. It's a pile of rubble. Every building in Gaz has been deliberately flattened. This done to destroy the infrastructure so the Palestinians will leave. An obvious warcrime, one of many. Israel with the aid of bully America can break UN charters with impunity. Today Israel announced 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank or going ahead. Again with impunity. Do the Palestinians reserve the right to defend themselves with such provocation? Can they be armed like Israel or have a weapons system like the Iron Dome to shield their villages and farms from harm. No. Only Israelis have that god given right. Something's not right? There will come a time when the death toll in Gaza will reach over 100,000 with tens of thousands injured. The population will be no more , and the West will see similar actions occuring in the West Bank where far-right ultra Zionists protected by the Israel Army will ramp up its eradication of Palestinians there too. If mass murderer Benjamin Netanyahu isn't jailed for war crimes, this will send a message out to other dictators around the world that they can ethnically cleanse with impunity. Use concentration camps. Prohibit food water and medical aid to millions. Shoot dead aid workers , doctors & nurses. Stop the press from entering the conflict to report on human rights abuses. All happening already by a country the West alleges is the only true democracy in the Middle East. Israel. Shameful.

I wish I had a perma-scuse.

Ireland can’t have it both ways. They have done very well out of the US over the years. If now they take a stance contrary to what the US holds to be in its own interest then they must accept the consequences. Likewise the US has facilitated collecting funds for terrorism in the UK (Noraid, Boston) such as the bombs planted in Warrington in the 1990s. That does not endear many to the US or the IRA.

I can't abide the Israeli spokespeople who when confronted by criticism from any direction just dismiss it all as lies. That's all they ever do. They refuse to let foreign journalists in to see for themselves what's going on. It's inevitable then that people think they have something to hide. And to argue that people are antisemitic for criticising what they are doing is equally pathetic. When people do criticise them it's nothing to do with them being Israeli. It's because they are wrong.