Mick Hartley

Meanwhile, in Ireland:

The head of the Jewish community in Dublin has blasted an Irish politician for her tweets comparing Israelis to Nazis and monkeys, saying it showed the need for education.

Maurice Cohen, chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, took issue with “inaccurate, antisemitic and racist” social media posts from Réada Cronin, the newly-elected Sinn Fein parliamentarian for Kildare North.

In the posts, she said Israel had “taken Nazism to a new level” and suggested that a picture of monkeys working on computers reminded her of the Israeli embassy.

She apologised “unreservedly and wholeheartedly,” saying the tweets were “glib” and “off-the-cuff,” but Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said her comments, which she made before she was elected, should “trouble us all”.

Speaking to Jewish News, Cohen said: “It is disappointing that her offensive comments have neither been criticised nor condemned by Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.

More at the JC:

Réada Cronin, 46, who was elected to represent Kildare North in Dáil following the Irish general election on February 8, was found to have made a string of offensive tweets between 2012 and 2015.

The messages included comparing Israeli embassy staff to monkeys, alleging that Jeremy Corbyn had been targeted by Mossad, and retweeting a post saying that Hitler was a pawn of a Rothschild-owned bank.

A bit more than “glib” and “off-the-cuff", I'd say.