Ireland’s Top Catholic Cleric Attacks Israel for ‘Merciless,’ ‘Disproportionate’ Gaza War in New Year’s Message

Irish Archbishop Eamon Martin at the Oxford Union, Oxford, England, May 2022. Photo: Screenshot

Ireland’s most senior Catholic figure has lambasted Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as “merciless” and a “disproportionate” response to the Palestinian terror group Hamas’s invasion of the Jewish state last Oct. 7.

The New Year’s message by Archbishop Eamon Martin came amid deteriorating relations between Israel and Ireland, the latter of which has been accused of normalizing antisemitism in daily life.