Demand RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst Resign Over Antisemitic Eurovision Boycott
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Michael McSweeney
4 months ago
The whole political and media establishment is complicit in Jew-hatred from top to bottom.
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Helen Serafinowicz
4 months ago
It is vital that people know that I didn’t leave Graham because I was hounded. I left him because he abandoned me, and unforgivably, our children, to a profound Twitter addiction. The man we loved deeply missed birthdays, exams, parents evenings and mealtimes to an addiction that saw him manage over 20 Twitter accounts, with our house taken over by monitors and equipment allowing him to keep on top of so many accounts. The Trump loving man lost in rabbit hole of JD Vance love is not who he really is.
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Bernadette Donelon
4 months ago
I support Israel,Irish born and I can date my ancestors back to 1756.
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Matthew Pryor
4 months ago
The war in Gaza was initiated by the Gaza regime itself when it slaughtered ~1,200 innocent Israeli civilians in an orgy of sadistic violence, and kidnapped 241 people, many of whom were subsequently murdered in captivity. The violence was both unimaginably cruel and indiscriminate, targeting anyone from tiny infants to the elderly. This was enthusiastically cheered on by the Palestinian population. To hold Israel - the world's only Jewish state - responsible for the ensuing war is both perverse and evidence of RTE's disgusting, vile Jew-hatred.
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Ronald Woods
4 months ago
The God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob/part of his covenant with Abraham/those who bless you I will bless/those who curse you I will curse/Ireland is on very shaky ground with God /cursing Israel/and aborting their sons and daughters
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Shahaneh Paronakian
4 months ago
Absolutely disgraceful to use Father Ted as a prop in an antisemitic political gesture.
RTÉ has chosen to boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest solely because Israel is participating. This is not a principled humanitarian stand. It is antisemitism — the oldest hatred — dressed up in the language of human rights.
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Shachar Erez
4 months ago
Only bigots would blame and boycott singers, academics, and business leaders who don't make military decisions for the decisions made by the military to stop an ACTUAL genocidal army.
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Ros Goldfarb
4 months ago
Shame on you
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John Hanson
4 months ago
Shame on Ireland.
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Rosemary Hanson
4 months ago
Shame on RTE.
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Z Walden
4 months ago
The Irish elite can't have it all their own, antisemitic way.
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Anonymous
4 months ago
Say no to hate!
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Eddie Bird
4 months ago
There is absolutely no justification for this despicable act. No defence to the charge of blatant antisemitism. It is so appalling it cannot be legal. Such racism makes me very frightened.
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Anne Arundale
4 months ago
This man should be sacked for his disgusting attitude to the Jews and Israel. He would fit into Grman society in the 1940 s. This is so pathetic. Where is the banning of terrorist nations who house Hamas and their Islamist. Ireland showing stupidity and lack of knowledge regarding World affairs. No wonder the Irish are classed as thick. Thankfully I left it years ago and looking in from outside it is sill full of ignorant people. Embarrassing.
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Chele Marmet
4 months ago
Resign!
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Penelope Lee
4 months ago
I completely agree with Graham Linehan.
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Mark irwin
4 months ago
There is no place in RTE for racist bigoted pigs like him!
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Dermot Cassidy
4 months ago
Should be no room for anti semitism racism or any other type of racism in a state funded broadcaster like RTE
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Anonymous
4 months ago
All anti semetic people are disgraceful. Good luck to them when their families are brutally tortured and slaughtered.
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Sharon Yoninah Ritt
4 months ago
Look in the mirror and realize you are a puppet of Hamas.
The whole political and media establishment is complicit in Jew-hatred from top to bottom.
It is vital that people know that I didn’t leave Graham because I was hounded. I left him because he abandoned me, and unforgivably, our children, to a profound Twitter addiction. The man we loved deeply missed birthdays, exams, parents evenings and mealtimes to an addiction that saw him manage over 20 Twitter accounts, with our house taken over by monitors and equipment allowing him to keep on top of so many accounts. The Trump loving man lost in rabbit hole of JD Vance love is not who he really is.
I support Israel,Irish born and I can date my ancestors back to 1756.
The war in Gaza was initiated by the Gaza regime itself when it slaughtered ~1,200 innocent Israeli civilians in an orgy of sadistic violence, and kidnapped 241 people, many of whom were subsequently murdered in captivity. The violence was both unimaginably cruel and indiscriminate, targeting anyone from tiny infants to the elderly. This was enthusiastically cheered on by the Palestinian population. To hold Israel - the world's only Jewish state - responsible for the ensuing war is both perverse and evidence of RTE's disgusting, vile Jew-hatred.
The God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob/part of his covenant with Abraham/those who bless you I will bless/those who curse you I will curse/Ireland is on very shaky ground with God /cursing Israel/and aborting their sons and daughters
Absolutely disgraceful to use Father Ted as a prop in an antisemitic political gesture. RTÉ has chosen to boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest solely because Israel is participating. This is not a principled humanitarian stand. It is antisemitism — the oldest hatred — dressed up in the language of human rights.
Only bigots would blame and boycott singers, academics, and business leaders who don't make military decisions for the decisions made by the military to stop an ACTUAL genocidal army.
Shame on you
Shame on Ireland.
Shame on RTE.
The Irish elite can't have it all their own, antisemitic way.
Say no to hate!
There is absolutely no justification for this despicable act. No defence to the charge of blatant antisemitism. It is so appalling it cannot be legal. Such racism makes me very frightened.
This man should be sacked for his disgusting attitude to the Jews and Israel. He would fit into Grman society in the 1940 s. This is so pathetic. Where is the banning of terrorist nations who house Hamas and their Islamist. Ireland showing stupidity and lack of knowledge regarding World affairs. No wonder the Irish are classed as thick. Thankfully I left it years ago and looking in from outside it is sill full of ignorant people. Embarrassing.
Resign!
I completely agree with Graham Linehan.
There is no place in RTE for racist bigoted pigs like him!
Should be no room for anti semitism racism or any other type of racism in a state funded broadcaster like RTE
All anti semetic people are disgraceful. Good luck to them when their families are brutally tortured and slaughtered.
Look in the mirror and realize you are a puppet of Hamas.