Mick Hartley

This will do little to dispel Ireland's reputation as the most antisemitic country in Europe:

An Anglican cleric accused Israel of deploying a “master race” theory in a sermon to a high-profile audience that included the Irish president.

Canon David Oxley was accused of “hijacking” the solemn Remembrance Sunday event at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin with a diatribe in which he also suggested Israelis believe themselves to be intrinsically more valuable than “other” groups.

“Then the elimination of others follows as a matter of course because they don’t count,” Oxley said.

Israel had committed the “horrible blasphemy of the master race in action”, he added.

"The master race in action". Lovely. Classic Holocaust inversion: where Jews are the new Nazis.

In addition to Irish President Michael Higgins, dignitaries at the service included the Lord Mayor of Dublin James Geoghegan, Minister Darragh O’Brien, and representatives of the main political parties, as well as former and current service men and women….

The Israeli embassy spokesperson said that Oxley’s comments should be seen in the context of growing anti-Israel activism and antisemitism in Ireland: “In the past year, we have seen a troubling rise in anti-Israel discourse in Ireland, which has often mutated into antisemitism and the delegitimisation of Israel.

“Antisemitism is being permitted to manifest openly now, largely in part due to vitriolic rhetoric against Israel which is, to an astonishing degree, based on disinformation, misinformation and deliberate distortion of facts and truth,” the spokesperson added, referring to a recent report into Irish school textbooks which were found to have demonised Israel and Jews.