Sick Irish Joke

                                                         Not even Kim got 100%

The most depressing thing about the modern world is not the threat level from enemies of freedom like Kim Jong-un. They’ve always been around, and compared to the shadow of annihilation from Nazi Germany and then the Soviet Union our parents lived under, we’ve got it pretty easy so far as external threats are concerned.

To adapt Lloyd Bentsen’s devastating put down of presidential hopeful Dan Quayle:

“We knew Hitler, Hitler was an enemy of ours. Kim Jong-un, you’re no Hitler.”

No. The really depressing thing is to find the enemies of freedom comfortably bedded in to the foundation institutions of our free democracies. Those who should be the guardians of civilization are instead flirting with the barbarians.

Such an example was in the news yesterday. The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) voted to endorse a motion calling for an academic boycott of Israel at their annual conference.  
            
The full text of the motion is:

TUI demand that ICTU step up its campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against the apartheid state of Israel until it lifts its illegal siege of Gaza and its illegal occupation of the West Bank, and agrees to abide by international law and all UN resolutions against it.

Congress instructs the Executive Committee to:

(a) Conduct an awareness campaign amongst TUI members on the need for BDS

(b) Request all members to cease all cultural and academic collaboration with Israel, including the exchange of scientists, students and academic personalities, as well as all co-operation in research programmes.

The awareness campaign seems unnecessary, this motion was passed unanimously.

                                   

You don’t have to be a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew. You don’t need to be a genius. You don’t have to be particularly well read on the background and history of the Middle East. And, finally, you don’t even need to be very bright to detect the breath-taking smugness and hypocrisy behind the motion.

But if you are not in any of the categories outlined above or are an Irish teacher here’s a little homework assignment that may make you fit to return to the classroom.

After the state of Israel was founded, between 800,000 and a million Jews were forced out of their homes across the Middle East, very often having to leave everything they possessed as they fled. The Arabs have been more thorough than the Nazis ever were in almost entirely expunging their ancient Jewish communities, which often pre-dated the appearance of Islam.

Conversely, the “occupied” West Bank is 83% Arab. And in Israel itself 17% of the population is Muslim. So whatever the Israeli attempts at “apartheid”, one thing is obvious. Compared to their Arab neighbours’ success in ethnic cleansing the Israeli efforts are so pathetic as to even suggest that the Jews aren’t even trying.

In fact, far from being an apartheid state, it has often been noted that the only Arabs living free of the arbitrary law of despots are those living in the State of Israel.

Those teaching professionals of the TUI might also like to consider the fate of their co-religionists in the Middle East. The Christian population of the region has fallen from 20% of the total to just 4% in a century. And with the pogroms currently underway in Egypt, Iraq and Syria in the wake of the “Arab Spring” it is clear that the Christian communities of the Middle East are headed for extinction in this part of the world, just like the Jews before them.

Why is it that the discrimination suffered by Egypt’s Copts and the hundreds who have been murdered in the last year or so attracts so little sympathy from Irish teachers?

Then the ignorant educators might like to think about the plight of women in their sainted Palestine. In recent years two separate reports have indicated that two thirds of all murders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are the so called “honour” killings.

If those 36 to 48 honour murders a year from the West Bank and Gaza's 4m people are extrapolated for population size they would amount to between 600 and 800 honour murders in Britain annually.

Last year there was a total of 640 murders in Britain (including around 12 of the honour variety).
   
What about some sympathy for these helpless women?

One last thing for the Irish dunces of the TUI to consider is:

Which country is likely to suffer more from the boycott of Israel, the “Zionist entity” or Ireland?

Israel and Jews have won at least 20% of all the Nobel prizes ever awarded, whereas the Irish have won just 7 and including only one for science.

So it’s not the Israelis who will shaking in their boots at being deprived of the finest Irish minds.

The only people who should be worried by this ignorant, puerile and loathsome boycott is anyone with children being taught by these dumb ideologues at an Irish school.

One last point. The unanimous vote quite strongly suggests that teachers of any intelligence or character have been rigorously excluded from a teaching career in Ireland. Perhaps all right thinking people should think about this prejudice against the intelligent and consider a boycott of all academic contacts with the obviously “apartheid” state of Ireland?