by RuthDE | May 11, 2026 | 2026, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
I’m wearing my badge again – the one that says “I stand with Israel”. I mislaid it for a while because I’m untidy, and being rather unhappy with aspects of Israeli government policy I wasn’t feeling an urgent need to find it. Published: 7 May 2026...
by RuthDE | Jun 6, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
I was at a party in London on Tuesday where Israel and Ireland came up in conversation several times. There was curiosity about why the Irish appeared to loathe Jews. Published: 5 June 2025 What beats me, said one, who knows the Republic well, is how my friends in...
by RuthDE | Dec 19, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, December, Journalism
As befits someone so often called a “Jew-lover”, I’ve been thinking a lot about Jews in Ireland since Israel announced the closure of its embassy in Dublin. Published: 19 December 2024 “Ireland’s antisemitic actions and rhetoric against Israel are rooted in...
by RuthDE | Feb 27, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
British Members of Parliament are scared. And with good reason. Have look first at murdered MPs in the last couple of centuries. Published: 27 February 2024 Two were murdered in the 19th century, respectively by a lunatic and an Irish extremist; five in the twentieth...
by RuthDE | Feb 10, 2024 | 2024, Daily Telegraph, February, Journalism
Its image is changing fast thanks to its cheap shots against countries like Israel, Britain and Taiwan Published: 9 February 2024 Ireland, which loves to be loved, is seeing its reputation transformed into one defined by a sullen, mean-spirited pettiness. Every week...
by RuthDE | Dec 5, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, December, Journalism
There are, sadly, innumerable Irish Israel-haters, among whom the permanently angry hard-line socialist and top-notch hater Richard Boyd Barrett of People Before Profit-Solidarity is particularly vicious. Published: 5 December 2023 AHamas supporter, these days he’s...
by RuthDE | Nov 28, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November
I’ve written a few times recently about the intimidatory pro-Palestinian marches in my neighbourhood with their aggressive thinly-disguised slogans calling for the annihilation of Israel. Published: 28 November 2023 It’s deeply disturbing in England, that bastion of...
by RuthDE | Oct 17, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, October
Journalist Andrew Neil summarised my feelings in a tweet on Sunday. “Looking at these shameful pro-Hamas demonstrations in London and elsewhere yesterday it struck me that Israel must be the only country in the world that is attacked for being attacked by a...
by RuthDE | Mar 16, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, March
Blatantly anti-Israel organisation has long ceased to be a positive force in world Published: 15 March 2020 Last week, because of the health crisis at home, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar had to pull out of an event in New York marking the 25th anniversary of Riverdance....
by RuthDE | Mar 2, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, March
I’m pleased to report yet another victory for the right to tell the truth about this party, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 March 2020 I didn’t know until last week that there had been three complaints to the Independent Press Standards...
