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Victor Davis Hanson: Ireland’s Anti-Israel Double Standard

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Victor Davis Hanson:  So I was one-quarter Irish and one-quarter Welsh and one-half Swedish—and  

Jack Fowler: I think that’s 100% there.  

Victor Davis Hanson: Yeah. But I know I have Mongol blood in there somewhere.  

Jack Fowler: Sorry. Well, let’s do a 23andMe test someday. My great-grandfather was the Grand Marshal of the New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade, so that kind of makes me Irish royalty. 

But I have no tolerance for Irish antisemitism, and we’ve got it by the boatload.  

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Victor Davis Hanson: Brendan O’Neill, did you see him, his little video? Brendan O’Neill. You know, he writes for Spiked.  

Jack Fowler: Yeah. I have him in my newsletter this week.  

Victor Davis Hanson: Yeah, it was really good. He said he, he was good. 

And then, the other British, you know, our friend that was on the cruises.  

Jack Fowler: What? Douglas Murray?  

Victor Davis Hanson: Yes. Douglas wrote or did a very good interview about Ireland, and it was full of passion. And he was really angry about it, given their moralistic lectures to everybody about—  

Jack Fowler: And their history …  

Victor Davis Hanson: And their history as an oppressed people. 

And I was really shocked by it. And they wouldn’t even shake the hands of the Israeli athletes after a soccer match. And it’s gonna hurt the—Wearing armbands. It’s gonna hurt the Israeli economy. It’s in a wartime footing to begin with, and then if all these countries boycott it in various ways.

If you say you’re boycotting products that were produced by settlement, many industries—it doesn’t really… They’re just gonna boycott anything Israeli. And what I don’t understand is they—There’s a lot of new videos coming out on October 7th.  

So there’s 1,200 people that went in there that were killed and slaughtered by 5,000 Hamas, but there was also 2,000 civilians that came onward. There were people to rape, people to kill, people to mutilate. 

They had planned it. The 20,000 workers were in on it. Many of them, they were giving surveillance to Hamas. They were hiding weapons in advance. And they committed atrocities. And then nobody… The Irish don’t, the Spanish don’t, the Germans don’t. They don’t. The American Left doesn’t. They never say, “What would you do?” 

All they say is, “Well, this was earned,” or “This was inevitable.” But there hadn’t been a Jewish person or an Israeli person in Gaza since 2006. But the UN had poured in $20-plus billion, most of it from Americans and Europeans. And remember the greenhouses, Jack, where that American philanthropist gave $50 million worth of very lucrative high-tech greenhouses to ship winter vegetables to a very—in a very profitable fashion? 

And what did they do as soon as they got it? They looted it, destroyed it. They’d rather have nothing than have Jewish fingerprints on it. And then they had an........

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