Veteran Irish broadcaster Mike Murphy compares Tel Aviv Eurovision to Nazi Germany’s Berlin Olympics

Irish National broadcaster RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live Show on Monday 8th October 2018.
Mike Murphy, a Machiavellian figure, paints Israel negatively, while using cunning and unscrupulous outside rewards of prestige within the U.N., as a motivation for the Irish people, were they to punish Israel.
Former RTÉ TV host Mike Murphy v Christian Friends of Israel’s Patrick Monaghan on the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s (IPSC) call to boycott the 2019 Eurovision in Israel.
Mike Murphy, who is a supporter of the IPSC, spoke first in a pre-recorded slot with Claire Byrne for two-thirds of the allotted interview time. The time allotted to Mike Murphy slot was 0 - 7.21 minutes. Paddy Monaghan, who was speaking from a position in the audience, came on afterwards, at 7.36 - 10.40 minutes.
Mike Murphy started off by saying that it was a shame the “Israeli and Jewish people, who have gone through what they have gone through in the Holocaust are now doing what they are doing to the Palestinian people”. He then made a further two references to the Holocaust, erroneously claiming it was Claire Byrne who brought the subject up.
It’s quite obvious that Mike Murphy is no impartial observer here. He completely dismissed the opinion of the “settler” he was introduced to while in Israel, who had expressed his own historical claims to the land of Israel. Murphy then quickly went on to make another reference to the Holocaust, making the outrageous claim that the “abused had become the abuser”.
Murphy said that Israel would use the Eurovision for its own “propaganda” purposes and labeled Israel an “apartheid regime”. Completely dismissing Claire Byrnes’s suggestions of hypocrisy in not calling for boycotts of other countries who have human rights records we might not agree with, Murphy suggests that Israelis will hide Palestinian suffering from the Eurovision fans, just like the Nazis hid their antisemitism from Olympic fans in Berlin in 1936.
Knowing full well that RTÉ is not going to boycott Eurovision 2019, he then took the onus off RTÉ boycotting the event and suggested it should be an Irish State “inspired” boycott.
Murphy doesn’t like the nasty word “boycott” by the way. He would prefer that the Irish State “take a pass this year and gracefully sit it out”.
For Murphy and the IPSC, the coup d'état of this particular discussion is the suggestion that the Irish State, via foreign minister, Simon Coveney, should boycott (sorry, gracefully sit out) the 2019 Eurovision so that Ireland might be better disposed to gaining a coveted seat on the UN Security Council. Those countries who have the vote would, Murphy suggests, would “be very positively disposed towards us”.
This is a very disturbing, but hardly surprising development. Murphy is saying that Ireland's interests should rise and be furthered, within the community of nations, by (wrongfully) standing on Israel; that the agenda and incentive to do so, should be that of Irish nationalism and esteem. Instead of focusing just on the rights and wrongs of the matter under discussion. By doing this, Murphy is in a Machiavellian manner, tempting the Irish mind with a carrot, which is cunning, scheming and unscrupulous.
Paddy Monaghan did an admirable job in defending Israel, making three points explaining why Israel cannot be considered an apartheid state. He then made the equally valid point that Ireland adheres to the internationally recognised definition of anti-Semitism (IHRA), and that to single Israel out over other states and their internal affairs, is considered anti-Semitism.
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[@bubbasmoleyay9799]

I don't like how the Israeli government behaves. But America, France, Germany and England have done far worse. It's hypocritical. It's up to the Israelis to clean up their own government. Mike Murphy should focus on criticising the Irish government making Irish families homeless. That's something he could actually affect

[@tomerila1]

Mike Murphy is a joke... Calling for a boycott "without using the word boycott"...