Barry Andrews

So...

There's obviously a double standard there.

But that is obviously a clear question.

I mean, I know people who have worked in the Commission, for example, where countries have said to Irish staff, why are the Irish so anti-Semitic?

Because there is a sort of a propaganda that this is about anti-Semitism.

And you hear things like, well, I mean, De Valera, you know, gave his...

condolences when Hitler died, all this sort of stuff about Ireland, this propaganda that this is about anti-Semitism and not about humanity.

And it's just pure propaganda and it's quite a lot of it is ignorance, but it is something that does emerge.

It's also from an Eastern European perspective, because you see a lot of the Eastern European countries are either silent on this or defend Israel.

And for example, countries like Lithuania and them, they receive a lot of important intelligence from Israel in

in relation to Russian and Belarusian hybrid attacks against those countries.

So they feel like they are sort of obliged to defend Israel or at least stay silent.

So there are other sort of issues at play here as well, given the ongoing situation in Ukraine and the Russian aggression as well.