If you are disturbed, as I am, by the rising tide of anti-Semitism, you can send an email to [email protected] Paul is the publisher of a pretentious Irish literary magazine who published an anti-Semitic screed in his November issue.
Paul published a piece by Justin Keating that announces Israel is illegitimate because the father of the Jews, Abraham, didn’t live in Israel, that the Balfour Declaration did not create a Jewish state, and the 1947 UN resolution was illegal.
All of which are true but nonsense. Abraham lived in Syria, but his descendents lived in Israel for thousands of years, non-stop. The Balfour Declaration was a policy paper for the British mandate. Just policy. The U.N. didn’t create Israel. The U.N. ratified the British partition and the U.S gave diplomatic recognition to the new State. For Israel to exist, it fought for its very life for over a year against all the well-funded well-armed invading Goliath Arab neighbors who were defeated and forced to sign a peace treaty to accept the creation of Israel. (Israel did this twice.)
Bloodshed and military victory created Israel. 93% of all other nations in the world were created with peace treaties. The rest are islands.
What you can email Paul about is to ask whether he published anti-Protestant libels as encouragement for the IRA when the IRA was blowing up civilian Protestants in Belfast. Paul’s anti-Semitic brain blows a fuse when you ask that question.
(I keep saying: anti-Semitism is a brain poison.)