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    Israele ha collaborato con il Fine Gael per respingere la mozione del consiglio

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    2. FeistyPromise6576 on

      It was a county council motion to not buy military equipment from Israel, What a pointless waste of time posturing from 2015. County councils dont buy military anything.

    3. Entire-Gas-7651 on

      Interesting to see targetted social media brigading operation like this by Israel (in Ireland) going back to 2015. Make you wonder about what other campaigns have been conducted since.

    4. grotham on

      >“The vote was preceded by concentrated and intensive activity by ‘Facebook soldiers’ (operated by the embassy) led by B. Williams in cooperation with the ambassador, who was in constant contact with the council representative from the ruling FG party and assisted him in drafting a different resolution, contradicting that of Sinn Féin,” he added. 

      There’s plenty of these “soldiers” around r/ireland the last couple of years. 

    5. im_on_the_case on

      Well this is unexpected. I would have thought the Kremlin would have directed their goons at The Ditch to post something Ukraine corruption related to mark Zelenskiy’s visit.

    7. Wompish66 on

      Mental that Israel is lobbying such low levels of government. A decent editor would make it clear that this was a decade ago.

    8. asdrunkasdrunkcanbe on

      Wow, this is the weakest shit in a while. Read the article lads.

      Sinn Féin proposed a motion a decade ago (2015), that *Kildare County Council* should “urge” the government to boycott Israeli miltary weapons.

      Let’s ignore the futility of this for a second and that county councils shouldn’t be wasting their time on this crap.

      The vote was defeated 21 to 7. Presumably with 12 absentions, because there were 40 council members at that time.

      At the time, KCC had 5 Sinn Féin members. Presumably they all voted for it. And 2 others voted for it. Which means that there were 33 other council members – FG, FF, Labour & independents – who either voted against or abstained on this motion.

      However, the Ditch has decided that it was definitely defeated because of two FG members of this council. Because the IDF put in a strong social media campaign at that time, and had been in contact with someone from FG. So it was definitely the 9 members of FG who managed to defeat this motion 21-7.

      Oh no wait, those FG members just went on to be TDs. That means it was definitely just the two of them.

      I’m not a FG supporter by a long shot. I highlight this because the Ditch has clearly dropped any pretence of being independent journalism and is now just the “We hate Fine Gael” media, supporting by Paddy Cosgrave.

      And anyone who uses the Ditch as a primary source of anything, cannot be taken seriously. You may as well rely on *An Phoblact* for your news.

    9. micosoft on

      Let me get this right.

      A resolution on armaments by (checks notes) a county council in the midlands in 2015 long before current events in Gaza?

      This resolution was overwhelmingly rejected 21-7 mainly because the purchase of armaments don’t fall under a county council? (always a wonder at the hypocrisy when Sinn Fein had no problems buying armaments from Libya for example).

      The Israeli embassy whose job is to represent Israel’s political position in Ireland contacted a Councillor and gave him the Israeli line. Remember now we are in 2015 – eight years before the start of the current Gaza war. Something something about the Israeli embassy having two social media lads in Dublin posting pro-Israel narratives on social media.

      This is the greatest codswallop of a non-story even if all the facts are true by Putin’s “news agency” in Ireland. When is the ditch going to come clean on its funding rather than checking the tax disks on politicians partners and other “hard hitting” reportage. They should at least let Chay write his letter from Moscow weekly to let us know how he’s getting on.

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