The Irish left and Israel - Ireland's tax against Israel

Irish Aid

Anti-Israel NGOs funded by the Irish taxpayer:

Trocaire
Christian Aid
War on Want
Miftah

Tax-funded anti-Israel art
Trade union activism

Mags O'Brien

Ireland's tax against Israel

As an Irish taxpayer, I am forced by the state to donate money to anti-Israel "charities", anti-Israel NGOs and anti-Israel artworks. I am even forced to donate money to the terrorist Palestinian Authority.

I am ashamed of what my country does with my tax money.

Brian Cowen, sending my tax money to terrorists.
Photo from 2003.
Brian Cowen, 25 June 2003, said that the terrorist Arafat was "the symbol of the hope of self-determination for the Palestinian people".

Leon Klinghoffer, the disabled Jew murdered by Arafat in an attack on a cruise ship in 1985.
Arafat's men, like the Nazis they are, singled out Klinghoffer as a Jew, and shot him in the forehead and chest as he sat helpless in his wheelchair. They threw his body and wheelchair overboard.
When that bastard Arafat died in 2004, Michael D. Higgins led a candlelit tribute to him.
But Klinghoffer's daughters said: "Leon Klinghoffer, our father, was one innocent civilian among thousands who were murdered under the rule of Yasir Arafat and the P.L.O. As a family who has unfortunately been touched by Mr. Arafat's terrorism, we find that our only solace in his death is that he cannot kill anyone ever again."

Irish Aid - Using my taxes to campaign against Israel

The Irish state agency Irish Aid sends my tax money to anti-Israel NGOs and even to the terrorist Palestinian Authority.
NGO Monitor
NGO Monitor list shows that Ireland funds these anti-Israel NGOs:
I am even forced to pay through my taxes for Irish and EU aid to the vile Palestinian Authority.
- Hamas brags about aid money "turned into weapons", June 2007. "Two years ago, one bullet in Gaza cost around €3.50 - now it would cost 35 cents. The American aid money has been translated into weapons. Thank you, America!"
- Foreign aid of $7 billion pledged to Palestinians, Dec 2007. It really shows that terrorism works. Disgusting. It will pay for a lot of arms and a lot of hatred against the West.
- I am forced to pay through my taxes for Palestinian "security" forces (i.e. Islamist terrorists) and for indoctrination of hatred in Palestinian schools and TV.
The Irish Aid centre is hosting a series of anti-Israel lectures, "The Palestine Lectures: 2012-2013" in Dec 2012 to May 2013, all anti-Israel, and many of them by IPSC people.
I wouldn't donate money to Irish Aid if it was a charity, but I am forced to donate to it through my taxes!

I am forced to pay through my taxes for Irish aid to the Palestinians.
Above is the section on "Palestine" from the 2011 annual report

of Irish Aid.

How the West (including my country) feeds terrorism and encourages conflict, in one amazing chart.
From here.

Fine Gael and Fianna Fail post this guy Irish taxpayers' money every time they get a chance.

Ireland funds the anti-Israel NGO Miftah

Irish Aid uses my tax money to fund the anti-Israel NGO Miftah.
2011 funding summary from here.

Miftah was founded by the PLO's Hanan Ashrawi (see more).
Miftah praises female suicide bombers.
Miftah promotes the blood libel against the Jews. And followup.

Miftah praises the terrorist butcher Dalal Mughrabi.
Google translation.

Ireland funds anti-Israel art

Galway Arts Centre
- "Settlement", 2003. A taxpayer-supported anti-Israel exhibition. "This project acknowledges that artists are not 'neutral' beings, divorced from social and political realities, but often hold partisan viewpoints which are articulated through numerous and complex strategies." Though, oddly enough, none of them hold a pro-Israel viewpoint.
In 2005 the taxpayer-supported National Sculpture Factory made the "Courage to Refuse" installation, urging Israeli soldiers to desert. That is, we have a tax-supported anti-Israel artwork.
- Have my taxes ever gone to support a pro-Israel artwork? Let me know here.
- It was included as part of the taxpayer-supported Cork 2005 festival. Has any city festival ever included a pro-Israel event? Let me know here.
In 2006 the Irish Film Institute in Dublin refused to accept Israeli government sponsorship of a gay film at the Dublin Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.
- The Israeli Consul General said: "I was annoyed that they mixed culture and politics and joined the anti-Israel bandwagon. A gay and lesbian event is not just another festival, gays and lesbians have fought for their rights, events such as these should promote openness and dialogue, a boycott rules out dialogue. A boycott ignores the fact that that none of the other Mediterranean countries would even dream of offering sponsorship for an LGBT festival. They see scenes from Lebanon and think it means all Israelis are bad, you wouldn't expect an arts festival to be so closed minded."
- I am forced to pay through my taxes for this politicised body.
Freedom of sexuality in Israel - It is the only country in the Middle East in which gays are free.
In 2006 the Festival of World Cultures in Dún Laoghaire refused to accept Israeli government sponsorship.
- I am forced to pay through my taxes for this politicised event.
In 2007 the arts group Aosdána passed an anti-Israel motion.
- Ian O'Doherty attacks the vote: "The fact that Israel is the least segregated society in the region, and that Israeli Arabs enjoy more freedom than their counterparts in other, Arab-run, countries is something that tends to be conveniently forgotten"
- I am forced to pay through my taxes for this politicised body.

Irish trade unions

Similar to the state abusing the taxpayers by using taxes for anti-Israel purposes, trade unions invariably abuse their position by using members' fees to fund anti-Israel activism.

Teachers' Union of Ireland apparently votes for boycott of Israel, Apr 2013. Shameful.
I say "apparently" because I have found no union statement on this. Nor have I found any news item on this in the Irish media. All we have is an IPSC statement.

Ireland's largest trade union, SIPTU, abuses its position by using the fees of its members to pay for anti-Israel agitation and partnership with the oppressive and terrorist Palestinian Authority.
This is an event called "Palestine: A Celebration" hosted by SIPTU and the Palestinian Authority, 17 Sept 2011.

SIPTU abuses its position by forcing its members to donate to the anti-Israel Michael D. Higgins' campaign for President in 2011.
From Standards in Public Office Commission report, Feb 2012.

Mags O'Brien

Mags O'Brien (Irish trade unionist, Trade Union Friends of Palestine) has a particular hostility to Israel.

Mags O'Brien expresses the left's delusion that in supporting the Palestinians they are somehow "non-violently" standing for "civil liberties", like the "freedom riders" in 1960s America.
From SIPTU magazine, June 2011.

This rather ignores the fact that: (a) the Palestinians believe in the most appalling violence, and: (b) the Palestinians do not believe in civil liberties.
Martin Luther King would have been unimpressed by this. He was pro-Israel.

Irish "feminists" Mags O'Brien (Trade Union Friends of Palestine) and Freda Hughes (Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign) express solidarity with Palestinian women on International Women's Day, 8 Mar 2011.

They do not stand against the Islamist oppressors of Hamas, who brutalise women under sharis law.
Rather, they stand against the liberal democracy of Israel, where women are free to live their lives. Some "feminists".
The poster also glorifies terrorism.

Mags O'Brien, 24 Sept 2021, mourns the death of Fatah terrorist Hussein Masalma.
Hussein Masalma was jailed by Israel since 2002, apparently for "planning to carry out a suicide attack".

Fatah gave Hussein Masalma a military funeral in Sept 2021.
I guess they knew what he was.
Note the Fatah flags.
From here.