Ireland Israeli/Palestinian Conflict Nicky Larkin

NICKY LARKIN: HOW I BECAME AN IRISH ZIONIST……..

 

Here’s the golden nugget:

I was confused by the constant Palestinian repetition of the mantra of “non-violent resistance.” Why put up all the posters of martyrs, if you advocate non-violent resistance? I was supposed to understand all this somehow because I’m Irish. But even the IRA didn’t blow themselves up … at least not on purpose.

NOTE: And i’ll add, neither did the IRA have territorial claims on the UK mainland, nor sought to exterminate every single British citizen.

How I became an Irish Zionist

BY NICKY LARKIN JUNE 18, 2012

Summer 2012 — An Israeli flag proudly flies outside the front of a Dublin city centre pub. An insignificant event perhaps in other parts of the world — but not in Ireland. Six months previously Dublin city council allowed a day-long enactment of mock executions of “Israelis” by “Palestinians” on our main shopping thoroughfare, organized by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Being anti-Israel has somehow become part of our Irish national identity — the same way we are supposed to resent the English.

I was no different. My interest in the Israeli-Arab conflict had been sparked by Operation Cast Lead. I posed in the striped scarf of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation for an art show catalogue, in a gesture of solidarity. While I never had any notions of “Throwing The Jew Down The Well,” as Borat might have it, I had definite opinions on Israeli foreign policy. The Irish papers were full of stories of Israeli aggression every day that summer — between flotillas and bombings it didn’t look good. You can’t polish a turd.

But I wanted to go and see for myself. I wanted to see just how nasty these Israeli’s actually were. I wanted proof that I was right.

Several months later, I arrived in Ben Gurion Airport expecting all sorts of security checks. We were Irish, and we were filmmakers — therefore we were not to be trusted. Thankfully, we cleared security without the involvement of latex gloves or free prostate exams.

But suspicion followed us everywhere we went in that first week in Israel. Once we told people we were Irish it was harder to get interviews, and people were more reluctant to speak on camera. I understood why.

After that first week in Israel we crossed over into the West Bank. Being Irish wasn’t a problem on this side of the divide. Everyone was our friend. IRA graffiti adorned The Wall; tiny German flags affixed to car number-plates. Bethlehem was Las Vegas for Jesus-freaks, the neon crucifixes punctuated only by posters of martyrs.

I was confused by the constant Palestinian repetition of the mantra of “non-violent resistance.” Why put up all the posters of martyrs, if you advocate non-violent resistance? I was supposed to understand all this somehow because I’m Irish. But even the IRA didn’t blow themselves up … at least not on purpose.

I was also frustrated by the unquestioning attitude of the foreign activists. Anything seemed acceptable in the name of the Palestinian cause. No questions asked. But would these war-tourists apply this same liberal attitude if it was happening at home in their own country? If buses were exploding in their own home cities? If they weren’t out here on holidays in their summer playground?

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5 Responses

  1. The totalitarian Left dominates the media. And the Left always has been in alliance with Islam. Islam is another totalitarian ideology, with the same attitudes to mass murder and genocide on a grand scale as the Left.

    One must always bear in mind that communists/Left/marxists were responsible for the greatest mass murder/genocide in human history – around 150 million murdered one way or other- executions, death camps, labour camps.

    1. I agree DP111. Also, whenever I remind a Leftist of those facts, the number of people toasted by Communist-Fasist socialism…they immediately disappear.

  2. I would like to see his movie, if I understand correctly it is only shown by a Canadian organization or can I also buy it somewhere online?

  3. I have an Irish friend with conservative views (pro-Israel, pro-America). Ironically, his father is in the Irish government but so he has to keep his views secret from his family. Ireland has become a nation of ideological repression no different from Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany where the thought police dictate what people believe. Societies like this implode.

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