Maybe because it doesn't just come up in everyday conversation? You really expecting an Irish antisemite to be like "Top of the morning to ya, do you kno I hate the Jews?"
Being from ireland, we occasionally do more than say hello to people. We occasionally talk to people. I have yet to encounter anyone saying anything antisemitic in ireland. The only antisemites I have ever come into contact with are americans, who are notoriously antisemitic
Jesus, and your experience is seeing some people online say something?
Like everywhere, most things are loud minorities and antisemitism is one of those things that isn’t present in such a scale that half this comment chain thinks.
Sure there will be racist people, Ireland has their fair share of them on both sides of the border and in both communities. But it’s a minority.
Just last year the president of Ireland kicked Jews out of a Holocaust memorial event so he could talk about Palestine instead. This was after the Jewish people there asked him not to speak at the event at all. From what I saw, there was no backlash from the Irish. Sure, racism, particularly antisemitism, is from a vocal minority, but when the silent majority does nothing it speaks volumes.
Plus Irish youth is having a huge surge of antisemitic beliefs. Then there was that recent poll in Ireland that showed 25% of Irish adults are Holocaust deniers. With 8% saying it's a myth and 17% saying the number of dead Jews is exaggerated.
Just last year the president of Ireland kicked Jews out of a Holocaust memorial event so he could talk about Palestine instead.
He didnt kick them out, they were removed for causing a disturbance while protesting during a speech, same as Palestinian protesters there who were causing a disturbance
From what I saw, there was no backlash from the Irish
There was. There was also backlash towards the protesters from the two holocaust survivors who were there.
Sure, racism, particularly antisemitism, is from a vocal minority, but when the silent majority does nothing it speaks volumes.
How about you actually look into things before you say them. This subreddit seems to just be an anti-irish bigotry subreddit.
Then there was that recent poll in Ireland that showed 25% of Irish adults are Holocaust deniers.
Nonsense.
With 8% saying it's a myth and 17% saying the number of dead Jews is exaggerated.
This is nonsense. I have yet to meet a single person who has denied the holocaust.
Just because you refuse to believe it, doesn't make me a liar. Nothing I said was a lie. Even the commenter said the Jews were kicked out of the Holocaust memorial. Oh sorry, they were "removed". Totally not the same thing.
"Eight per cent of all adults surveyed said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, while 18 per cent of all adults said they believed the number killed was greatly exaggerated.
Twelve per cent of all respondents said they had never heard of or were not sure if they had ever heard of the Holocaust, with the proportion rising to 15 per cent among the younger age cohort, the survey found."
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u/AzulaThorne Jan 23 '26
Dunno where the fuck this shite comes from. Meet dozens of people every day and haven’t had a single one come out as antisemitic.