“Ireland is not anti-Israel but Ireland is absolutely anti-the starvation of children, is absolutely anti-the killing of civilians, and is absolutely pro-peace, pro-international law and pro-human rights.” This is how the outgoing Taoiseach Simon Harris responded on Sunday evening to the Israeli government’s announcement that it would shut its embassy in Dublin because of what the country’s foreign minister Gideon Saar described as “extreme anti-Israel policies”. The move followed the Government’s decision to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This was the final straw for Israel, which had already withdrawn its…

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