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| IRA leader sez Zionists will hijack Holocaust Day |
| 2004-01-18 |
| A former IRA bomber who is prominent in pro-Palestinian circles has denounced Belfast’s Holocaust memorial day, claiming that it was being used to justify Israel’s existence. Well, having 6 million of your people killed is a rather strong incentive for wanting a state, especially given that there seem to be some folks in the very place where the Holocaust occurred who are ready to do it all over again ... Fheilim O hAdhmaill, a member of the IRA’s England department during the early Nineties and a key figure in the Provos’ campaign which, among others, claimed the lives of two children in Warrington, claimed that the Holocaust commemoration would be used by local Zionists. Sounds like he has more in common with Hamas than just his anti-Semitism ... The college lecturer, who was sentenced to 17 years’ jail for terrorist activities in Britain, pointed to the involvement in Holocaust Day later this month of Ronnie Appleton QC, a retired lawyer and leading figure in Belfast’s Jewish community, as an example of a local ’Zionist’ allegedly using the memorial day to promote Israel. In an email to members of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, which is dated 11 January, 2004, O hAdhmaill wrote: ’We should be particularly concerned that the current Holocaust commemoration ongoing in Belfast City Hall may be used by the organisers - and in particular by the chair, Ronnie Appleton - to justify the establishment of an apartheid state in the Middle East and the racist policies it adopts towards the local Palestinian population both within Israel and in the illegally occupied territories.’ Ah, he reads al-Guardian too ... The former key figure in the Provos’ British bombing campaign expressed concern for the deaths of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli Defence Forces. Yet said nothing about the kids that his own jackboots murdered in cold blood ... In his communiqué to pro-Palestinian activists, he tried to make direct comparisons between Nazism and Israeli policies on the West Bank and Gaza. ’Whether we are dealing with the racism of Nazi Germany, or apartheid South Africa or Israel, or the racism being suffered by ethnic minorities in Ireland, North and South, all such racism must be confronted and actively opposed. We should urge the population to remember the Holocaust, but we should also urge them to learn the lesson of the Holocaust.’ When contacted by The Observer, O hAdhmaill admitted writing the email, but said he was being taken out of context. ’This was part of an ongoing discussion within the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and was not intended for public debate. I wouldn’t attempt for a moment to minimise what happened in the Holocaust. ’I don’t think there is anyone in Ireland who wouldn’t give their wholehearted support to the Holocaust commemoration. But I don’t apologise for saying that one of the lessons of the Holocaust is that racist ideologies can lead to such atrocities.’ Not anti-Semitism, of course ... O hAdhmaill enlarged on his remarks about barrister Ronnie Appleton. ’As far as I am concerned there has been no evidence of any attempt to use the Holocaust memorial to further a political objective. And that is to his credit.’ For his own part, Appleton was clear about exactly who was trying to gain from the Holocaust commemoration. ’He [O hAdhmaill] is trying to make capital out of the Holocaust,’ he said. Appleton pointed out that he was one of 20 people on the local committee and not the chairperson. Republicans and far-left activists involved in pro-Palestinian groupings in Ireland Republicans is the British term for pro-IRA folks in Northern Ireland. No relation to the US political party of the same name. Throughout the history of Irish republicanism in the twentiethth century there have been strong strains of anti-Semitism. Sean Russell, the IRA leader in the Forties, openly colluded with the Nazis and died on a German U-boat off the western coast of Ireland. Russell, despite his links with the Nazi regime, is still venerated by republicans today. Looks like that isn’t the only thing they venerate ... |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #5 Old irish joke - 'There is no anti-semitism in Ireland. We don't have time for that kind of nonsense!' It sounds to me like this is more Loony Left thinking. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-1-18 4:43:34 PM |
| #4 said he was being taken out of context Yeah, he was misquoted! The Sons of St. Patrick would NEVER try to make political hay on 6 million dead jews! As good socialists, they're only pointing out that the israelis and Americans are NAZIs. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-18 3:30:23 PM |
| #3 Someone should take that bastard to South Sudan or on one of those areas of Lebanon or Afgahnistan wheere the Muslim herrensvolsk killed and raped the inferior races. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-1-18 1:57:05 PM |
| #2 I know plenty of Irish-Americans here in the good ol' US of A, and they're all fine people and upstanding Americans. But I will say that the Irish I've met from the U.K. seem to be just 2 degrees away from paleostinians: pathetic, incapable losers, who blame all the world's ills on the English and do nothing to improve their own lot. They get no sympathy from me. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2004-1-18 1:50:20 PM |
| #1 ’Whether we are dealing with the racism of Nazi Germany, or apartheid South Africa or Israel, or the racism being suffered by ethnic minorities in Ireland, North and South, all such racism must be confronted and actively opposed. We should urge the population to remember the Holocaust, but we should also urge them to learn the lesson of the Holocaust.’ Yes, and the lesson obviously is that you have to finish what you start When contacted by The Observer, O hAdhmaill admitted writing the email, but said he was being taken out of context. ’This was part of an ongoing discussion within the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and was not intended for public debate. I wouldn’t attempt for a moment to minimise what happened in the Holocaust. Not subject to public debate?. Guess you can't have the public see you for what you really are. It may be a small blessing but thank God the Provos like their beer and whiskey. Other wise they'd probably start wearing coats made by DuPont. I just did a Google search on Synagogues in Northern Ireland. I came up with a total of one. With another 5 for the Republic. My God the place must be crawling with Zionists As an aside when the demographics of the North make the unification of Ireland inevenible does any one really think the IRA will disappear? |
| Posted by: Cheddarhead 2004-1-18 1:14:22 PM |