Ireland has been conquered by Israel Derangement Syndrome

There’s a surefire way to tell when a country has become anti-Semitic: even discussing anti-Semitism becomes a risky business. Even gathering together to ask what the hell might be done about Jew hate becomes fraught with difficulty, earning you nervous glances, suspicious looks, maybe even a slammed door in your face. This is now the case in Ireland where it is reported that a hotel in Dublin cancelled 70 room bookings for the delegates to a conference on how to tackle the world’s oldest racism.

The 15th international conference of the EU’s ‘Special Envoys and Coordinators Combating Anti-Semitism’ is currently taking place in Dublin. Delegates from all 27 EU member states have assembled to address soaring Jew hate. According to reports, they were initially booked into the Herbert Park Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin, where 70 rooms were put aside for them. But the hotel got cold feet. It started asking weird questions. Then, incredibly, or perhaps not, it cancelled the booking.

According to Maurice Cohen, chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, the hotel rescinded the booking after ‘discovering the purpose of the gathering’. The hotel reportedly asked the organisers if they were in any way ‘connected to the Israel Defence Forces’. Eh? It was a civilian meeting to discuss racism, not a shindig for the Israeli army. As the European Jewish Congress says, the fact that ‘participants in a conference [on] anti-Semitism’ were badgered over potential ‘links to the Israeli military’ is a stark example of the very ‘prejudice and suspicion’ such gatherings seek to tackle.

If the reports are accurate, then this could not be more serious. To kick people out of your hotel for the sin of ‘combating anti-Semitism’ is a flagrant prejudice. To see the words ‘combating anti-Semitism’ and think to yourself ‘Is this an IDF thing?’ is wild. It is proof of the Israel Derangement Syndrome that has Ireland in its unsparing grip. Increasingly in Irish polite society, Jews and the Jewish State and Gaza and ‘genocide’ are all thrown together in a big pot of suspicion and hysteria.

Remember when it was racists who risked being cancelled from public venues? Now it’s anti-racists – if the racism they’re discussing is the one targeted at Jews, that is. In a development that will shock precisely no one, some Israelophobes are cheering for the hotel. One Palestinian journalist offered his ‘full solidarity’ with the hotel’s refusal to host ‘delegates attending a conference about “fighting anti-Semitism”’. ‘Noble, noble people’, he said. Once again, the keffiyeh slips, revealing the ancient animus that lurks behind so much ‘Palestine activism’.

The delegates found somewhere else to stay. The Jew-haters of Europe and beyond who were rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of an anti-Semitism conference collapsing will have to suck that up. And yet serious questions remain. Is it now hazardous to discuss anti-Semitism in Ireland? Is Ireland now hostile territory for people who want to end Jew hate? Will the government speak up loudly and clearly against the hotel cancellation? We will see.

Dublin’s chattering classes should fret less about the IDF and focus more on IDS – the Israel Derangement Syndrome that has colonised Ireland as surely as the Brits once did. Israelophobia courses through the nation’s veins. The Irish parliament froths with invective about the ‘repulsive’, ‘obscene’, ‘disgusting’ Jewish State. The Irish government demanded a watering down of the meaning of genocide in order that the Jewish nation might finally be found guilty of it. The entire Irish establishment puffs itself up with nauseating fake virtue against the world’s only Jewish nation. Irish music acts scream ‘Up Hamas!’ while virtually the entirety of Dublin’s posh college intake consists of keffiyeh cultists who dream of Israel’s erasure. Little wonder Israel shut its embassy in Dublin, citing Ireland’s surrender to ‘anti-Israel’ mania.

‘Virtuous’ Ireland now defines itself almost wholly by its opposition to the Jewish State. It is the most tragic, envious, bitter and bigoted style of politics imaginable, and it flings open the door to outright anti-Jewish prejudice. ‘Are you linked to the IDF?’ Imagine asking that of people fighting anti-Semitism. What are we doing here, Ireland?