Mick Clifford: Time to park the gesture politics about Palestine
Attempting to rename Herzog Park was the kind of gesture that insults Ireland’s Jewish community, playing into Israeli state propagandists' hands, and so does nothing for the plight of the Palestinians
As Palestinians live in the rubble of Gaza, Irish gesture politics does nothing to ease their plight. Picture: Majdi Fathi/Getty
If the Israeli government was looking for “useful idiots”, it could hardly have found better than People Before Profit.
Think about it. You are engaged in propaganda on behalf of a state that is perpetrating wholesale murder of Palestinians. You need to deflect criticism by claiming it is self-defence and portraying objections as antisemitism. And along comes this outfit in Ireland which is just what you’re looking for.
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