Antisemites sad Iran might not get nukes

No place to hide.

The good thing about the Israeli and US strikes against Iran is that it has smoked out all the antisemites. You see them now, with their Jew hating pants down, displaying their Hitler Wasn’t That Bad t – shirt. They are on the left and on the right.

For a while there they could hide behind ‘international law’ and genocide accusations but now that Iran may have had their nuclear capability degraded, the weeping and gnashing of teeth is everywhere. The antisemites spent all of Monday devastated that Israel had taken out the so-called 'countdown clock to Israel’s destruction' located in Palestine Square, Tehran. I’m surprised there wasn’t a run on Kleenex, like the toilet paper in Covid.

First disclaimers. I accept that you can oppose the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza on some legitimate grounds including it being disproportionate. I don’t agree with the arguments but it doesn’t make you an antisemite. Hating Prime Minister Netanyahu doesn’t make you an antisemite either.

But if you want the country that has said that once it gets a nuclear bomb, it will drop that bomb on the only Jewish state in the world then you are an antisemite. And not just any old antisemite like the crazy grandfather in your living room who says Jews are all money lending Christ killers, but actual genocidal antisemites. What these people want, is a Holocaust 2.

And they are everywhere now – especially the gays and the trannies. In fact a good rule of thumb is that group of people who would be hurled off a tall building in Tehran first, should they ever move there, are the most pro – Iranian of all. Even typing those words – pro – Iranian seems bonkers. It is like saying there are people out there who pro – Hitler.

You don’t have to be pro regime change or a neo – con to know that being pro – Iranian in this fight makes you not only a genocidal antisemite but a bit dim. The fact that the west has been infected with this stupidly and has permitted it to grow like a cancer is a problem.

Speaking of antisemitism I was in Dublin city last week meeting an old friend. Thankfully I didn’t have to negotiate with one of the pro – Hamas/Palestine marches and the weather was good. I don’t get into ‘town’ much and I’ve been told the northside is a virtual no – go area. But even the southside, the nice part, is a little edgy.

The main attraction, Trinity College Dublin (built by the British obviously) has put up lots of buildings that look more like a place where you would incarcerate students rather than fill their noggins with knowledge. The building below could also pass for a facility that burns books, not publishes them or stores them. Maybe that’s why Trinity have ended all co - operation with universities in Israel, a rancid and shameful move from Irelands best known university.

(What is this hideous building?)

At the front, the obligatory Pride Flag was flying although overall there were not that many in the city.

One of my complaints about Ireland and its town and cities is that they are not as green as you would imagine. My local town Drogheda has a serious deficit of trees and so does Dublin. But Dublin does have St Stephen’s Green which is a nice place to take your lunch.

Anyway I ended up having three glasses of white wine for lunch in an actual restaurant but don’t worry my eldest daughter saw me safely home. A good day out in the end.

(St Stephen’s Green.)

Finally, I have two blogs over at Gript worth reading. One is on Labour and the culture of death here and I take down Rory Stewart here.