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Ruth Dudley Edwards: Gaza-bound vessel really a ship of fools

Whether they know it or not, anti-Semitism is driving these activists on a 'mercy mission', says Ruth Dudley Edwards





Sunday June 26 2011
IT was the Fifties and I was about seven when I pointed to the photograph of Hitler in my republican granny's lair and said: "What about the Jews, grandmother?" "British propaganda," she replied.

Grandmother Edwards was not stupid, but she was adept at filtering out information that didn't fit her world view. As far as she was concerned, the Nazis had been allies of the IRA and enemies of the Brits so they were the good guys.

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Let us be clear. Whether they know it or not, that gaggle of posturing, ignorant Irish clowns who are setting sail towards Gaza on the MV Saoirse are driven by anti-Semitism. Otherwise they would be protesting against -- for instance -- the Islamist killings and bombings that are forcing tens of thousands of Christians to flee the Middle East, the ethnic cleansing in the Sudan, the ill-treatment of servants and women in Saudi Arabia, the hanging of gays from cranes in Iran, the massacres of protesters in Libya and Syria, the torture of Irish-trained doctors in Bahrain for tending to injured demonstrators and the vicious anti-Jewish propaganda that teaches Arab children to hate.

The explanation given by Jim Roche of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign -- a spokesman for the Irish contingent -- is that "the people of Gaza are being slowly starved and are being completely deprived of their human rights to live in dignity".

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