Ireland must recognise Palestinian statehood

Criticism of its ‘apartheid-like’ Palestinian policy is shouted down as anti-Semitism by Israel’s right-wing government and by the Jewish lobby in the US, says TP O’Mahony.

In November, 2006, former US president, Jimmy Carter (1977-1981), published a book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and although it quickly became a New York Times bestseller, it drew vitriolic criticism, not only from right-wing quarters in Israel, but also from the powerful Israeli lobby in the US.