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Thread #159827   Message #3804712
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
12-Aug-16 - 09:52 AM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Jim, here is another silly antisemitic song for you, as you consider them historically relevant.
It was sung by Irish Republicans during WW2.

In an article in History Ireland, Brian Hanley of Queen's University quotes a poetic tribute to Hitler from the Sinn Fein publication War News.
'Oh here's to Adolf Hitler,

Who made the Britons squeal,

Sure before the fight is ended
They will dance an Irish reel.'

As Hanley notes, in July 1940 the IRA leadership issued a statement outlining its position on the war. The statement made it clear that if "German forces should land in Ireland, they will land. . . as friends and liberators of the Irish people".

Apologists for the republican pro-Nazi line suggest that they were simply following a time-honoured strategy of "England's difficulty being Ireland's opportunity".
But it is clear that some of the republicans embraced Nazi ideology as well.

The Third Reich was praised as the "energising force" of European politics and the "guardian" of national freedom.

War News condemned the arrival in Ireland of "so-called Jewish refugees". "The Jews," the paper warned, were "like the English, when they are strong they bully and rule."
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/jig-heil-the-freeborn-irish-who-saluted-the-fhrer-26631832.html