Colin Sheridan: Demanding accountability from a government or a society is not racism

If every expression of outrage at the destruction of Gaza and the annihilation of the Palestinian people is redefined as anti-Jewish hatred, then the word has completely lost its meaning

Our instinctive identification with occupied or dispossessed people does not emerge from racial animus, but from muscle memory.

Am I antisemitic? The current discourse in Ireland would suggest that, yes — as someone outspoken against the genocide in Gaza and the Israeli occupation of Lebanon — I am. I say this confidently knowing that I am not. 

But, things being the way they are, the truth matters little. What matters is noise, and the noise of the moment dictates that Irish people publicly
opposed to genocide in Palestine are probably antisemitic.