Louis Hemmings

Critiquing Ireland's "anti-Zionist" mindset

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Apr 21, 2025, 4:23 PM

‘Provocation Is Ideal Fuel for Creativity…’

Irish band Kneecap recently led Coachella crowds in chanting “F*ck Israel” and “Free Palestine.” Why did they do that? And just who are Kneecap anyway? That Irish hip hop trio originate from West Belfast, an Irish republican stronghold. Their sinister...

Apr 16, 2025, 9:31 PM

‘The Cross Was Not Yet Heavy Enough’

Christians mark Good Friday & Easter Sunday as important liturgical dates in their spiritual lives. In Nazi history, Aryans tried to subvert those faith festival events. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi leadership viewed Christianity with a mixture of pragmatism and...

Apr 11, 2025, 6:39 PM

Richard Boyd-Barrett’s Sectarian Split-infinitives

Richard Boyd Barrett - the dogged, pro-Palestinian leader of the socialist political party - People Before Profit - announced that he has been diagnosed with cancer. He will step aside from public appearances for the time being. Boyd Barrett has...

Apr 3, 2025, 11:37 PM

Irish fascist boycott of Israeli medical industry

Ireland introduced compulsory generic medicines substitution in 2013, leading to significant changes in medicine usage here. Much American branded medication was replaced by the more affordable, but equally effective, generic type. Most Irish people getting prescription medicines these days will...

Mar 29, 2025, 9:56 PM

Irish political eccentrics at Houthi conference.

Many in Ireland were astounded to see online videos of two Irish leftist eccentrics presenting at a four-day “conference” in Yemen, hosted by the Houthis. That Irish duo were Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, onetime members of the Dáil (Irish...

Mar 29, 2025, 12:04 AM

Rev. Hechler’s Discovery of Der Judenstaat, 1896.

Have you heard of the surprising and critical role that a Christian Zionist played in the earliest stages of Herzl’s modern Zionism? Reverend William Henry Hechler was that man. Hechler was a Christian who cherished a deep love for the...

Mar 21, 2025, 4:49 PM

A Political Punch & Judy show with Irish-Arab Bias

Have Irish government attitudes towards the Middle East been unduly influenced by its huge export trade to Arab Islamic states? In the light of many / most Irish politicians’ ambivalence towards Israel, it’s a question worth asking. In the first...

Mar 15, 2025, 11:39 PM

The Irish / Palestinian political revolutionary romance.

Rising of the Sinn Feiners in Ireland. O'Connell bridge with Dublin city, 1916 (public domain)Why is Ireland so willing to believe the false-narrative about Palestine? That is the existential question of most Jews and concerned pro-Israel Christians. Ireland’s uncritical support...

Feb 28, 2025, 4:01 PM

Did Gaza Hostages encounter any ‘Good Samaritans’?

The Good Samaritan by Aime Corot (public domain) Were any Palestinian Christian, Samaritan, or Muslim citizens enacting secret mercy missions towards hostages in Gaza? Did any secretly succor and help those victims, as many people did for Jews during...

Feb 25, 2025, 6:40 PM

What does the Irish tricolour flag now represent?

Something very odd happened at Nasrallah’s memorial on Saturday, February 23rd 2025. Amid a sea of people were quite a few flags. These were mainly representing Hizbollah, a terrorist organization. There were also a few Palestinian flags…and then one...

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About Me

Louis Hemmings has been writing prose and poetry since 1972. Some of his verse has been published in Poetry Ireland, The Irish Catholic, Forward (USA) and Books Ireland. He is a late-life student of journalism in Dublin, Ireland. He is married 38 years, has two boys, buried a stillborn and holds an ecumenical Christian point-of-view.

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