Posted: 25 Jul 2014 07:32 PM PDT
Israel’s embassy in Dublin posted this on its Facebook and Twitter pages
Sweet Molly Malone has become a Taliban woman in chador. Mona Lisa wears a hijab and totes a Qassam. Hans Christian Anderson’s Little Mermaid carries a Kalashnikov and Michaelangelo’s David is a suicide shahid.
Oh I know what you may say: this is hasbara of the crudest sort. Meant not to persuade anyone, but rather to reinforce the prejudices of those who publish it. To reassure the Faithful and True Believers of the righeousness of the cause. For this you don’t need Madison Avenue chops. Just a few Pavlovian bells ringing at appropriate moments to make the pro-Israel dogs salivate. Red meat, that’s what’s called for. Not so much is required in the thought or ideas department.
Like repeat offenders or serial murderers, the Israeli embassy in Dublin and Ambassador Boaz Modai, are serial offenders when it comes to its hatred of Arabs. In the past, I’ve posted several times about different offenses its perpetrated. Usually, the foreign ministry issues a bland apology, but privately it pats the ambassador on the head and tells him what a great job he’s doing puffing up hatred and paranoia against Europe’s Muslims. This is the sort of attack-dog mentality Avigdor Lieberman loves. In one tweet, the embassy called the venerable Irish Times, the “Palestinian” Times. Subtlety is not the embassy’s strong suit.
In the meantime, some members of the Irish Dail (parliament) are calling for the expulsion of Ambassador Modai, as Brazil has done.
So the next time you read about European anti-Semitism in France or elsewhere, keep in mind that’s precisely the meme the foreign ministry and its happy warriors in Dublin want you to believe. H/t to John Horne.
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