Irish PM rejects anti­semitism con­cerns in Ire­land amid dra­mat­ic vote over boy­cotting Israel game

Irish Prime Min­is­ter Micheál Mar­tin reject­ed claims that Ire­land’s sharp crit­i­cism of Israel has crossed into anti­semitism as ten­sions flared around a polit­i­cal­ly charged soc­cer match between the coun­tries Sun­day, with Irish play­ers hold­ing a last-minute vote over whether to boy­cott the game.Martin, in an exclu­sive inter­view with Fox News Dig­i­tal this week in New York, out­lined why Ire­land has tak­en such a staunch posi­tion against the Israeli gov­ern­men­t’s con­duct of the war in Gaza, call­ing its mil­i­tary response “absolute­ly dis­pro­por­tion­ate” while press­ing Israel to “change strat­e­gy” and call­ing for increased human­i­tar­i­an aid to Gaza.Martin argued that Ire­land’s own his­to­ry — par­tic­u­lar­ly its expe­ri­ence end­ing decades of con­flict in N …