In nine days, the streets of Dublin will be adorned with fairy lights. From Galway to Cork, nativity scenes will appear in town squares, and children will sing of a Jewish child born in Bethlehem, proclaimed the “King of the Jews.” But as Ireland prepares to celebrate the Jewish roots of its most sacred holiday, its government and institutions are working tirelessly to delegitimize and destroy the living Jewish people.

The irony is as stark as it is tragic. The Irish leadership is leading a global movement to criminalize the presence of Jews in Judea—the very land that provides the setting for the Christmas story. If the Irish government’s current legislative definitions were applied to the Nativity, the “King of the Jews” would be labeled an “illegal settler.”

As a Jew, I find this hypocrisy no longer sustainable. Ireland has emerged not merely as a critic, but as an implacable institutional enemy of the Jewish people.

A Systematic Campaign of Hostility

Ireland’s campaign is not a series of isolated disagreements; it is a systematic, state-sponsored effort to isolate and pariah-ize Jews everywhere.

In January 2025, Ireland formally intervened in South Africa’s libelous, false, disingenuous, and maliciously fabricated ICJ case against Israel. By joining this legal blood libel, Ireland sought to........

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