AIBU to be having nightmares over friends visit?

Based on?? An objective peer reviewed study from the University of Edinburgh?

It's unbelievable that people are allowed to make such sweeping statements about Ireland without any evidence whatsoever and anybody who questions them gets deleted. What has happened to the moderation of this site?

I'm struggling not to be angry at this narrative. There is no significant anti-Jewish sentiment in Ireland. There just isn't.

There is support for the people of Gaza currently which is the only humane position in my opinion, because I don't buy the narrative that Israel have no choice other than to wipe out civilians including children. And I accept that Hamas has significant support in Gaza.

That is not the same thing at all as being anti-Jewish and/or pro-Hamas.

When people were leaving Ukraine there were widespread media reports of non-white college students experiencing discrimination at borders. My perception of Eastern Europe is that it isn't a utopia for many including Jewish people based mainly on history books and media reports. Are Jewish people never discriminated against in Russia?

You and your friends are talking an interpretation of conversations when you are speaking in your second language, in another culture, in a country whose history you don't instinctively understand. And making all kinds of assumptions.

You are conflating things you don't fully understand.

You are writing on a UK website, a country that not too long ago had signs in pubs "no Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs."

I take huge issue with this, it is not far off saying - those ignorant Irish anti-Jewish Paddys, they make us so sad.

"Give her a chance".
"Death to the Jews"
"Not enough Jews killed in the Holocaust".
Mate. Read those again. "Weird over social media" and "overtly wishing death on an ethnic group" are not quite the same thing.
I wouldn't allow a person with these racist and violent views within a mile of my Jewish children.

@Liv999
If you know any non Irish, non British, but continental European people living in Ireland, please ask them about their view on this.

Obviously I can't convince you over the internet but this has been my experience in Ireland as an immigrant, and the experience of my non Irish friends.

The majority of Jewish people are in Dublin and it’s a small number. No idea if OP is part of that community
Whilst I can’t speak for all of Ireland and I don’t live in Dublin there has been news in The Times of Israel and the Jewish News about anti Semitism going unchecked.
Boys doing the Nazi salute in school dismissed as boys will be boys, for example.

It wasn’t relevant to your post, all you’ve done is doubled down on it, by saying a lot of people, which is massively generalising and that’s why it keeps coming up and even now you’re saying this is true, you’re not speaking on behalf of all people, that’s why posters are commenting, this is your opinion.There’s so much irony in what you’ve said, because you’re unable to see what you’ve said in prejudicial and divisive, not fact and your post is about extreme views!

Please provide evidence of Ireland being anti- Jew, otherwise you're coming across as very ignorant and misinformed

I don't know why this thread is still up. Claiming that many Irish people support terrorist organisations is wrong.
Also acknowledging that OPs friends comments are also wrong.

@Allinarow48 I'd be telling her I'm not keen to meet based on what you've seen of her views recently, you don't need to be Jewish to be offended by what you're saying she's posted. If she argues she's right I think I'd have to discontinue the friendship. Block if you have to. It's a shame but neither of you are the same people you were during the childhood/college years which you say were when you were closest.
And remember that her mental health isn't your responsibility.

OP has been quite confrontational while defending her opinions about Irish people - even saying that she ‘doesn’t care!’

Absolutely.

Any terrorism is wrong and the vast vast majority of people in Ireland would be of this opinion.

It's the younger people who support Sinn Fein. Older people cannot get last their ties with the IRA.

In the 1980s only about 1 - 2 % voted for them in ROI. Showing clearly that the vast majority were not pro-IRA.

D’oh! Jesus was a descendant of King David. My point was that Irish people do not have a problem with this symbol.

Yes Sinn Fein has a huge young vote

Not everyone can be confrontational, it that works for the OP let her be.

No, I think it’s the older generation in ROI who are less likely to support. It’s the youngsters who have forgotten.

Sinn Fein has now embraced peace but many older people still don’t trust them and wouldn’t ever vote for them. Look at the recent election stats by age. You’ll be very surprised by those if you think it’s the older generation who support Sinn Fein.

I’m assuming You do know that has nothing to do with the Jewish faith if they are in a Christian church.

Your friend is an apologist for terrorists of the absolute worst kind. And she has said she wishes more Jews were dead...that includes you, your children, your family. Her mask has slipped.

There is nothing to debate here, you remind her you are Jewish and tell her the friendship is over. You cannot be friends with such a disgusting human being. And if there is an equivalent of Prevent in Ireland, you report her to that.

As for the IRA, I have lived in Ireland and know what you mean. I sympathise with the basic cause and what the British did, but the moment anybody crosses the line into terrorism they have lost all of my sympathy, as well as that of any right minded person. I am also Jewish and have had to disconnect from an entire side of my family in Ireland over antisemitism and support for what Hamas did, some lines once crossed can never be returned from.

Both, she said.