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category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Tuesday December 18, 2012 16:23author by maolcholann - noneauthor address Dublin Report this post to the editors

A response to the latest in a series of provocative, offensive, and frankly fratboyish Facebook posts coming from Israel’s embassy in Ireland.

There’s Something Rotten in Ireland
a post by Haroon Moghul on the RELIGION DISPATCHES website, 18 December 2012

The New York Times’ blog, The Lede, reports on the latest in a series of provocative, offensive, and frankly fratboyish Facebook posts coming from Israel’s embassy in Ireland. They go from digs at Ireland (“naďve”) for joining Europe and much of the world in voting for an upgrade in Palestine’s status at the United Nations, to the most recent—an allegation that, if Jesus were alive today, he would probably be lynched by hostile Palestinians.

Nobody at the embassy seems to know who’s writing and posting these very ugly statements—and they’d prefer it stay that way; a spokesperson notes that in addition to government staff, everyday Israelis can post, too. (Which sounds like a disaster for any governmental institution, and predictably enough it seems the page has now been taken down, having failed to advance a positive image of the country.)

That the New York Times is reporting on the story indicates how much negative press has been generated; some of the postings are stunningly offensive—and the embassy might be better off looking more seriously into them. Certainly, they do not help the current Israeli government’s declining popularity in the eastern half of the West. More worryingly, the deliberate provocations seem to have emerged from the embassy’s public relations strategy, which includes wondering if pro-Palestinian Israeli activists are motivated less by ideology and more by “sexual identity problems.”

Seriously.......

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Related Link: http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/haroonmoghul/6711/there_s_something_rotten_in_ireland

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   If Jesus were alive today, both he and Mary would probably be murdered trying to by-pass the ZIo-Nazi Wall around Bethlehem     Zionism=Nazism    Wed Dec 19, 2012 13:26 
   Joseph and Mary can’t make it to Bethlehem, on Banksy’s Christmas card     Zionism=Nazism    Wed Dec 19, 2012 13:33 
   Rich Baby Jesus.     Biblical wise Man.    Thu Dec 20, 2012 15:13 
   Analysis of the Israeli embassy's racist comments.     Anto    Fri Dec 21, 2012 14:06 
   MOSES WAS THE FIRST ZIONIST.     BUTSeriously    Thu Dec 27, 2012 01:13 
   Ranting while treating the Bible as an historical source can be detrimental to the little that remains of your sanity     @ The Troll    Thu Dec 27, 2012 19:36 


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