Teva Pharmaceuticals is the Israeli company that is the largest producer of money-saving generics in the world. Now some people in Ireland want its products to be boycotted. If successful, and Teva is no longer a supplier, that will cost the people of Ireland close to $400 million a year. More on this folly can be found here: “Irish Medical Association Pushes Boycott of Israeli Drugmaker Teva, Raising Concerns Over Patient Access to Medicines,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, November 6, 2026:
An Irish medical association’s campaign to boycott Teva Pharmaceuticals, one of Israel’s largest drugmakers, could have consequences for patients across Ireland, where the company’s medicines account for one in every eight prescriptions.
The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA), a representative body for hospital-based medical specialists and consultants, passed a motion this week calling on its members to avoid prescribing, administering, or using products made by Teva Pharmaceuticals when clinically suitable alternatives are available, provided doing so does not endanger patients, disrupt ongoing treatment, or compromise medical outcomes. The Irish Examiner first reported the story.
Under the newly adopted motion, the association also pledged to stand behind clinicians who refuse to use Teva products for ethical reasons, insisting they should not face professional repercussions, intimidation, or disciplinary measures for making such decisions in good faith.
IHCA pointed to “significant ethical concern and international scrutiny” surrounding Teva Pharmaceuticals amid the ongoing war in Gaza, placing its decision within broader anti-Israel boycott efforts and international campaigns to isolate the Jewish state.
Ireland has been one of the most anti-Israel countries in all of Europe, denouncing the “genocide” in Gaza and in 2024, alongside Spain and Norway, recognizing the “state of Palestine.”
Teva’s pharmaceutical products have been bought by the Irish for one reason: it produces the highest quality generics at the lowest price. Buying from Teva is an economic decision. But the decision to boycott it is not an economic decision. It is, rather, a case of virtue-signaling that will cost Teva a small amount of its $18 billion a year in revenues, but make an enormous difference to Irish patients who will now pay more for generics that are of lower quality.
Right now, Teva saves the Irish consumers close to $400 million a year on their pharmaceuticals. Are the Irish willing to trust the quality control of generics produced in India and China? Or perhaps are willing to do without generics altogether and buy brand-name drugs costing 85% more than their generic version? And all that, just to make clear to everyone just how very much the Irish disapprove of the Jewish state?
somehistory says
Good idea. refuse to buy the meds which keep life going, help one to feel better and be able to get along.
Stupid hate. Now if they hated the evils of islime, that would be the smart thing and wouldn’t make them give up meds they or their families might need.
Evidently the modern Irish don’t really understand “ethics” At least some of them are clueless.
Wellington says
Ass backwards thinking, one of many traits that Leftists and Muslims have in common. No wonder they’re allies (temporarily of course).
Huh!?! says
Ireland, like the UK has lost its mind.
Rob Porter says
It’s not that the Irish are merely antisemitic, they are stupid, Islam-ignorant and too cowardly to take action against the Muslim world for all the cruelty, by Muslims, in Africa in particular, against non-Muslims, Christians in particular. Their leniency in Ireland toward Muslims after rapes, indecent exposure by a migrant on a bus and the antagonistic treatment by female police officers of the female victims while these disgusting officers treated the Muslim criminal as ‘the victim’, tells us how morals have sunk in Ireland to lower than shark dung resting on the ocean floor.
My one grandmother was born in Dublin where she grew up, through that my mother visited Ireland when 13 and kissed the Blarney stone. I felt some attachment toward Ireland, but now I feel nothing but disgust and contempt for stupid, morals-destitute people whose government allows the country to be invaded by Muslim filth, useless parasites who mostly live on government hand-outs . Today I wouldn’t visit Ireland if you paid. me – and I hope the South African Springbok rugby team mangles Ireland.
Siddhi Nasranni says
I agree with you, it is so sad that they take this attitude. I don’t think the Catholics likes the Jews,
because they killed Jesus. The Irish seem to like the Nazis.
” Ireland and the Nazis: a troubled history
As a neutral leader, de Valera trod a fine line between Nazi Germany and Britain, not helped by a pro-Nazi envoy in Berlin and his controversial condolences on Hitler’s death.
See the connection?
carpediadem says
The Jews did not kill Jesus. Stop spreading this antisemitic crap that has cost so many Jewish lives.
Sentinel says
Correct, the Jews did not kill Jesus. Maybe people should read the Bible again. My husband is Jewish and he has a historical book noting that it was mostly a combination of Politics, the Roman’s and the Jewish leaders playing politics so they would be left alone by the occupation of the Romans at that time. Politics is still playing divisive division throughout the world and history. Wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t have politicians.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Carpediadem.
Siddhi Nasranni says
The Catholic Church spread this antisemitic crap, they did not do their homework
& read the Old Testaments to find out about Jesus the Jew.
Isaiah 53, the classic messianic prophecy known as the “Suffering Servant” prophecy, also details the death of Messiah for the sins of His people. More than 700 years before Jesus was even born, Isaiah provides details of His life and death. The Messiah will be rejected (Isaiah 53:3; Luke 13:34). The Messiah will be killed as a vicarious sacrifice for the sins of His people (Isaiah 53:5–9; 2 Corinthians 5:21). The Messiah will be silent in front of His accusers (Isaiah 53:7; 1 Peter 2:23). The Messiah will be buried with the rich (Isaiah 53:9; Matthew 27:57–60). The Messiah will be with criminals in His death (Isaiah 53:12; Mark 15:27).
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Wellington says
Both accurate and sobering, Rob Porter. So much for cutesy leprechauns and Saint Patrick’s Day.
Sentinel says
No surprise here. Why not, the world has gone crazy. Now they are doing the WOKE (with out knowledge or an education) thing. Lets be WOKE and hate the Jews (for no intelligent reason) but we have to go along to get along. Sure, we can hate but don’t know why.
crown says
I can’t wait until Ireland is completely submerged in the Muslim storm-surge they are bringing in.
You hate Jews? Well I wish you joy of all those lovely Muslim grooming lads you are bringing in!
And when you complain later on? I will not give one minuscule flying f*ck! Ireland can sink into the Atlantic for all I care.
MEL says
Well said.
They will pay like the rest of Europe who fell for the stupidity of OPEN DOORS
to the lowlifes of the world.
The raging of the left and the Muslims will if it is allowed to continue will take
down the countries that still talk about Islamophobia to protect the people who
are going to take over and dominate as it says in the Koran.
The natives are too stupid to see the light of day. They will go down before they
realize who it is that will dominate.
Someone should teach them what “HiJRA” means,
Jihad by immigration.
And they’re worried about Israeli generic drugs. UTTER STUPIDITY!
Sentinel says
You can say that again. What the heck happened to Europe. You would think that they would have learned their lesson during WWII. Apparently, their schools are doing the same thing that we have done. Don’t teach World history let alone their countries history. A shameful and painful way to destroy countries but this what the Communist want.
Taffy says
Somehow I don’t think boycotting Teva products will get the boycotters’ virtue signal across to the Irish public or anyone else. Most people don’t look at the pill bottle to see who manufactured the medication. They usually take it as prescribed, oblivious to any tangential political controversy with respect to the manufacturer.
By the way, it’s important to read the markings on the pill and run it through one of the many pill identifier programs on the Internet to ensure that you are getting the correct meds. It is rare that the pharmacy dispenses the wrong medication or the wrong dose, but it does happen.
gravenimage says
In Ireland, a Push to Boycott Israeli Pharmaceutical Company Teva
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Jihad against affordible medications. What clueless dhimmis!
Donovan Nuera says
Wait for an Multiple Sclerosis patient who has been stable without relapses for years on Copaxone (Teva) to be forced to switch to a generic (glatimer acetate) or more expensive new one (That the Irish health system won’t have on formulary due to cost) and then suffer a relapse with a plaque in the upper spinal cord causing quadriplegia and incontinence. I would hate to be in the courtroom trying to explain the clinical indication to change the medication that was working well for years…… that’s what happens. Even in California, where insurance companies forces patients off of brand name drugs for cheaper generics even when stable (in violation of the 1994 Gallegos State Law that forbids this very dooshy practice). The doctor is still on the dock for anything that goes wrong as insurance companies cannot be sued.
Rick Gordon says
I don’t understand what has happened to Ireland. I know that the government is anti-Semitic but don’t know why.
To escape the famine of the 19th century many Irish immigrated to the US. After a prolonged period of discrimination the Irish assimilated and became part of our melting pot.
Why do they hate the Jews?
Sentinel says
Ignorance is bliss. If it weren’t for the Torah, we wouldn’t have the Bible which has been abandoned.