When an openly pro-Hamas Palestinian journalist in Ireland publicly threatened me with violence, I received no goodwill or support from the thousands of Irish people defending the Irish Nazi in France. They largely took the journalist’s side. When that same journalist harassed and incited against the only kosher restaurant in the country, there was no outrage on Irish Twitter about the fact that a non-Irish extremist threatened an Irish business and Irish livelihoods. When that same journalist grotesquely insulted and defamed one of our own Holocaust survivors, a man who spent decades educating young Irish children about the Shoah, mere days after his death, there was no anger on Irish Twitter that someone who had contributed so much to Irish society was being so disrespected. The fact that Irish Twitter has largely come out to excuse, diminish, and defend the man in France is remarkably telling. This man threatened on camera to ‘put a f*cking bullet’ in the head of a Jewish woman. Also on camera he called two Jews ‘f*cking pigs’ repeatedly. He said ‘come back Hitler’ on camera after allegedly saying he was ‘sorry Hitler didn’t finish the job’ before he was filmed. …And yet he is given all the benefit of the doubt in the world. Every conceivable grace is afforded to him. He was the offended party, he was provoked, we must protect this Irishman. Where was the benefit of the doubt for those of us whose only crime was speaking openly about our observations of prejudice in Irish society and bias in the Irish establishment? There was none. From the beginning we were smeared as having an agenda, of being paid, even of being foreign intelligence. Where was the urge to protect Irish people when it came to an Irish woman being openly threatened by a non-Irish extremists who subsequently denigrated an Irish Holocaust survivor? It did not exist, I was the one attacked for merely speaking openly about the fact that he had threatened me. This double standard in who is afforded grace of benefit of the doubt and compatriot solidarity, is far more damning on Irish society than a lone Irishman going on a Nazi tirade. A man who speaks for no one but himself and brings shame to our country. A shame that none of us who have been combatting antisemitism in Ireland would ever dream of doing, despite all the vitriol and abuse we have faced from our own Irish brethren.