Eamon Martin, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, has a spittle-flecked message for Israel:”Irish Catholic Archbishop: Israeli response to Hamas ‘merciless and disproportionate,’” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, January 2, 2025: “I highlight Gaza not only because of the severe impact of this conflict but because it is emblematic of the failure […]
The Primate of Ireland Has a Message of Hate for the Jewish State
Eamon Martin, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, has come out with a message of hate for the Jewish state: “Irish Catholic Archbishop: Israeli response to Hamas ‘merciless and disproportionate,’” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, January 2, 2025: “International Humanitarian Law says that parties to a conflict cannot use disproportionate measures to […]
Another Grotesque Attack on Israel from Ireland
A straight line can be drawn from Irish President Éamon de Valera, who paid a visit to the senior German diplomat in Dublin to express his condolences to Nazi Germany on the death of Adolf Hitler, to the deep anti-Israel animus, grading into outright antisemitism, expressed recently by Ireland’s current president Michael Higgins, its prime […]
Israeli Diaspora Minister Chikli Pushes Back at Anti-Israel Libels
For Amichai Chikli, the Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs, there is no turning of the other cheek when the Pope spreads blood libels against the Jewish state. The Pope has accused Israel of “cruelty,” of “machine-gunning children,” and of possibly committing “genocide.” Chikli’s furious response can be found here: “‘The Vatican was silent during the […]
Israel Accuses Pope Francis of ‘Genocide Blood Libel Against the Jewish State’
Minister for combating antisemitism gives pontiff a robust history lesson on the Jewishness of Jesus. Israel is rebuking Pope Francis for committing a “genocide blood libel against the Jewish state” and reminding the pontiff of the Vatican’s silence during the Nazi Holocaust amid an escalating diplomatic row between the Holy See and Israel. In a […]
Why the Pope is Wrong About Israel
The pope recently gave vent once again to his anti-Israel animus: “Pope Doubles Down on Criticism of Israel,” JNS, December 22, 2024: The Pope, as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, is usually careful about taking sides in conflicts, but he has recently been more outspoken about Israel’s military campaign against Palestinian terrorist group […]
Pope Francis Again Maligns Israel for What He Calls Its ‘Cruelty’
Pope Francis has repeatedly defended Islam, claiming that “Islam is a religion of peace.” He has called on Muslims to proselytize for what he has described as the “peaceful religion of Islam,” and in his 2023 book Non Sei Solo: Sfide, Risposte, Speranze (“You Are Not Alone: Challenges, Answers, Hopes”), Francis asks Europeans to be more open to […]
Vatican ambassador to Israel summoned by Israeli Foreign Ministry over pope’s anti-Israel Gaza comments
The pope’s rhetoric is dangerous in that it emboldens and encourages terrorists who systematically spread manipulative propaganda as they take aim at Israeli civilians. While Pope Francis is playing into Hamas’ hands, nothing is more disturbing and cruel than Hamas using Palestinian children and civilians as human shields in the way of jihad. The pope […]
Pope reveals that in Iraq in 2021, two ‘kamikazes’ tried to blow themselves up and take him with them
What’s this? Japanese pilots mounted suicide attacks against the pope in Iraq? They weren’t really kamikazes, of course. They were jihadis, motivated by this Qur’an verse: “Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill […]
Pope Francis Embraces Holocaust Denier Who Rewards Jihad Terrorist ‘Martyrs’
Pontiff trusts Islamic jihadists to provide stability and protect Christians in post-Assad Syria Pope Francis warmly embraced Palestinian holocaust denier and terrorism sponsor Mahmoud Abbas to Rome last Thursday, a day after the Vatican was forced to remove its politicized nativity scene portraying a “Palestinian” Jesus lying on a swaddling “terrorism” scarf. While in Rome, Abbas also […]