On Sunday 15th December Israel announced that in response to the Irish government’s criticism of its conduct in waging war on the Palestinians it would close its embassy in Dublin. Following this, social media has seen wave after wave of anti-Irish sentiments from sources as varied Israeli journalists and British Jews – what business is it of theirs, anyway? – from high ranking ambassadors and lowly internet trolls. All choose to lazily repeat baseless allegations of anti-semitism in a ...
