Daniel O'Dowd, at The Blogs

Jul 2, 2024, 8:39 PM

Creches, Classrooms & Campuses: The Palestinian Infiltration of Irish Education

Preceding October 7th, Ireland’s status as a stalwart proponent of the Palestinian cause and an insatiable critic of Israel was well known. Following the Hamas terror attacks, that support and criticism has plunged to new depths. Hebrew speakers are...

Feb 20, 2024, 2:06 PM

Relations Between Ireland & Israel Hit Unprecedented Low

Relations between Dublin and Jerusalem have been on an arrestable decline for years – relations maintained more so out of necessity, than anything else. October 7th and Ireland’s response has accelerated that decline – potentially to the point of...

May 4, 2022, 6:39 PM

Abortion is Many Things, But Not the Holocaust.

With the fires of the abortion debate in the United States inflamed with the wrongfully leaked draft opinion of the Supreme Court striking down Roe v Wade (1973), the rhetoric of both camps reaches fever pitch. Fingers pointed at...

Apr 8, 2022, 2:39 PM

People Before Profit: A Long History of Antisemitism Worsened By The Day

"We can't applaud calls for more sanctions which are hurting ordinary Russians and only bolstering the Putin regime at home." Statement from PBP (6/4/22) (Sean Defoe: Yesterday, President of Volodymyr Zelensky addressed both Houses of the Oireachtas - joining a select...

May 13, 2021, 12:28 AM

Never forget, Israeli lives don’t matter

Israeli security forces at the scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelom, on May 11, 2021. Photo by Flash90
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At the time of writing, thousands of Israelis are underground with their families and loved ones sheltered from Hamas rockets. Above, the rockets can be heard and all these Israelis can think is “Thank G-D for the Iron Dome...

Mar 4, 2021, 3:51 PM

Ireland needs an EHRC-Style report Into Anti-Semitism

"The history of Jews in Europe has not always been a happy one. Europe’s treatment of the Jews added certain words to the human vocabulary: disputation, forced conversion, inquisition, expulsion, auto da fe, ghetto, pogrom and Holocaust, words written...

Dec 16, 2020, 1:44 AM

Sinn Féin’s Anti-Semitism Comes At No Political Cost

To be frank, anti-Semitism is not a political issue in Ireland. It's not that it is not an issue. Rather, it's that there is no political cost to being anti-Semitic in this country. There is a small and dwindling Jewish...

Nov 6, 2020, 6:24 PM

“Give us the future, we’ve had enough of your past. Give us back our country, to live in, to grow in, to love.” (General Michael Collins during the Treaty Negotiations) Albeit, these words could so easily be those of Theodor Herzl...

Oct 29, 2020, 6:32 PM

The Book Is Now Closed On Jeremy Corbyn’s Anti-Semitic Legacy

Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech in London, England, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019, ahead of the general election on Dec. 12. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Today was one of those rare universally-good days in politics and in the pursuit of justice. Today was not a Brexit upset, a Sinn Féin wave, or a Red-to-Blue flip. Today was the vindication of the suffering of a...

Aug 4, 2020, 9:29 PM

Acceptable Hatred: The Acceptance of Anti-Semitism

It is often said that Jews are like the canary in the coal mine: that the hatred they suffer is a warning for others, and a call to arms to combat its spread. Perhaps that was once true. Presently,...

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Government Relations & Public Affairs Professional | Former Political Advisor in the Irish Parliament, and to both local and national election campaigns in the Republic of Ireland, and United Kingdom | Former CAMERA Fellow (2018/2019)