Not all Jews are Zionists — Alan Shatter does not speak for me
As the granddaughter of a Holocaust escapee who fled to Ireland, I am horrified by former justice minister Alan Shatter’s comparison of the Occupied Territories Bill with boycotts against Jews in 1930/40s Germany. File picture: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos
As I watched Tuesday’s committee hearing on the Occupied Territories Bill before the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee, I was once again dismayed by the representation of Jews in Ireland, and the speeches delivered in our name on Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and the illegal occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
As a non-Zionist Jew from Dublin, my Irish identity has always been just as important to me as my faith and ethnicity. The past 21 months have caused increasing tensions between those in my community who stand in solidarity with Palestine and those whose loyalties remain with Israel, no matter how many red lines they cross.
