About 2,500 Jewish people live in Ireland.<\/p>\n
One of them is Oliver Sears, who has been in the country about 40 years and is the founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. <\/p>\n
He said he has always been opposed to cultural boycott.<\/p>\n
“[Jewish people in Ireland] have no power and we don’t really count in retail politics and don’t really count at all. That very much feeds into how we are feeling as a community, we feel dismissed, our concerns disbelieved and it’s been horribly isolating,” he told BBC News NI.<\/p>\n
He questioned why any broadcaster would take “collective punishment”.<\/p>\n
“You are saying to a whole country, 20% of whom are Arab Muslims, that you are not good enough. <\/p>\n
“I don’t agree with it, it’s not going to save a single Palestinian life.”<\/p>\n
Asked if he thinks Ireland is antisemitic, Sears said Jewish people have experienced a “whole plethora of antisemitic incidents, language” which represents “a chronic lack of knowledge and ignorance about Jews, about antisemitism itself, about Zionism”.<\/p>\n
“Those three words, Jews, antisemitism and Zionism have all been weaponised and distorted.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 2,500 Jewish people live in Ireland. One of them is Oliver Sears, who has been in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}