Continued from "Are you from Simeon"??
Contents:
1. The Tribes of Ireland.
2. Ireland and Anti-Semitism.
3. The Irish and New Age Values.
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Dr. Clifford Smyth of Belfast, Ulster, is a supporter of Brit-Am. Some decades back he visited us here in Israel together with members of his family. Clifford was a veteran member of the BIWF and had authored articles on the subject of British Israel. He supplied us with valuable rare British Israel research documents. This helped us in our researches and writings.
Clifford was also active in local Ulster politics. We had seen a video clip of a talk he gave. He said that the Protestants in Ulster represented descendants of Joseph. The Catholics on the other hand had mostly come from the south of Ireland and were descended from the Israelite Tribe of Simeon. This was shortly after the publication of our work "The Tribes" (1993) in which, in our 1st edition, we identified the southern Irish with Simeon. The tensions and ongoing conflct between Protestants and Catholics in Ulser could be attribted to that between Simeon and Joseph in which according to tradition Simeon had initiated the plot against Joseph (see Are You from Simeon?).
According to Irish Chronicles, the first inhabitants of Ireland had been the Fomorians and the People of Dana descended from the Tribe of Dan. Then came the Sons of Bolg descended in part from Semuen son of Isru, i.e. Simeon son of Israel.These were overcome by the Gaels also referred to as Milesians and/or Hiberni. We identify these as descended primarily from the Tribe of Asher with input from other Israelite Tribes. The next invaders were Viking settlers mainly from Denmark descendants of Dan, then came the Normans and the English descendants of Joseph. In Northern Ireland we also find descendants of Jethro (see Jethro in Ireland, this based on information brought to our attention by TubalCain). Jethro the father-in-law of Moses. In addition to this we also find according to Jewish Legend the Children of Moses who was himself from the Tribe of Levi.
Vincenzo Galilei (1520 - 1592) father of the astronomer Galileo Gelilei, of Florence, Italy, reported that the Irish claimed to be descended from King David of Judah.
This is supported by Bible Codes https://www.britam.org/codesarticles/CodesIreland.html concerning both Ulster and Ireland. It had been prophesied that the descendants of David and of Levi would be extremely numerous:
Jeremiah (NKJV) 33:
22 AS THE HOST OF HEAVEN CANNOT BE NUMBERED, NOR THE SAND OF THE SEA MEASURED, SO WILL I MULTIPLY THE DESCENDANTS OF DAVID MY SERVANT AND THE LEVITES WHO MINISTER TO ME.
At all events today we tend to identify the present-day inhabitants of Ireland mainly with the Israelite Tribe of Asher. In Northern Ireland (Ulster) we find more from Joseph as well as from Judah.
Despite all this the Tribe of Simeon at some stage did leave its imprint on the Irish. The national color of Ireland is green and the green emerald was the precious stone associated with Simeon on the breastplate of the High Priest in the Holy Temple. Red hair was associated with the Ancient Israelites, as it is with many Jews today. King David had hair. The Midrash says that the Tribes of Simeon and Levi were marked by a high incidence of "bohakanim," meaning very white complexions and fair or reddish hair. In Ireland too, we find many with red hair.
Today (2023), Ireland has the second highest income per capita in the world after Singapore in the 1st place. The ranking of Ireland in recent decades has gone up and down but on the whole has remained high. Sound economic and fiscal polices are credited for this.
In addition a contributory factor has been the Irish character. The Irish today have a reputation for being reasonably well educated, informed, friendly, honest, reliable, and consistent. Simeon is only one of several constituents in the ethnos of Ireland but we may use Simeon as a model for describing the rest.
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2. Ireland and Anti-Semitism.
Adapted from the QUORA article by Yair Davidiy, "Is Ireland Anti-Semitic?" https://www.quora.com/Is-Ireland-anti-Semitic-1/answer/Yair-Davidiy
Most of the Irish during WW2 were in favor of the Allies. Many fought for them. Others crossed the sea to work in British factories. Nevertheless the Irish Government included elements that were pro-Nazi and who made anti-Jewish statements.
They REFUSED to accept little Jewish children from Germany even on a temporary basis. They did not want Jews. They said so. The small number of Jews they already had from before the War were treated fairly but could not do much concerning their kinfolk on the Continent who were crying out for help. The Irish did not take in ANY Jewish refugees during the War. After the War the Irish did give refuge to NAZI WAR CRIMINALS and Croatian Nazi affiliates from the Ustasha who had murdered Jews and Serbs. The Irish after the War were also against the State of Israel from the beginning. They still are. Nowadays they make protests about alleged Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians and Jewish settlement in the Ancestral Israelite Homelands of Judah and Samaria. Now some of them in government circles want to boycott Jewish goods from the West Bank. They claim to be doing this for humanitarian reasons. The Irish are using the Palestinians as an excuse to continue badgering the Jews!
The Irish have a negative track record.
For the sake of balance it is worth nothing that it is not all black and white. In the past individuals of Irish descent helped the Jews and the State of Israel. There were Irishmen who fought for the Jews in the Israeli war of Independence in 1948. Similarly in the USA we had Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) who was the son of an Irish story-teller. When he became President of the USA (1981-1989) Reagan did much to enable Jews in Russia to leave and many of them came to Israel. He believed this was what was needed to help them keep the Jewish Religion. The USA under President Reagan also extended protection to Ethiopian Jewish refugees in the Sudan and oversaw their transfer to the Israeli domain.
An ADL survey (2014) showed that ca. 20% of Irish people harbored what were considered anti-Semitic views. This compares with Germany (27%), Greece (69%), Italy (20%), Portugal (21%), Spain (29%), France (37%), UK (8%), Netherlands (5%), Norway (15%), Sweden (4%), Ukraine (49%), Poland (45%), Russia (30%), and so on. Some of the more anti-Semitic countries also support the Palestinians but none of them seem as virulent as Ireland does.
So here we have the Southern Irish in Ireland being been negative towards the Jews in WW2 and antagonistic bigots today in regards to the State of Israel.
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3. The Irish and New Age Values.
We also have the phenomenon that many people in Ireland and among descendants of the Irish in the USA have Third World New Age type attitudes.
A Prototype for this mode of behavior is found in the incident of Zimri and the Midianite Princess Cozbi.
The Bible (Numbers 25) tells us that the Israelites in their wandering through the Wilderness had come to a place known as "Shittim" meaning "Acacia Tree Grove." This was near the borders of Moab and Midian both of whom were antagonistic to Israel. The Moabites sent their women to fornicate with the Hebrews and entice them to participate in ceremonies in honor of the god Baal of Peor. Moses ordered the Leaders of the People to execute by hanging all such participants. Midianite women also had joined up with the others. A prince of Simeon defied Moses and in public took a Midanite Princess in front of everyone. The Almighty was angry and a plague started among the people. Pinchas (Phinehas) the Priest took a spear and skewered the guilty couple in the midst of their coupling. The plague was stopped.
Numbers (NKJV) 25:
7 NOW WHEN PHINEHAS THE SON OF ELEAZAR, THE SON OF AARON THE PRIEST, SAW IT, HE ROSE FROM AMONG THE CONGREGATION AND TOOK A JAVELIN IN HIS HAND; 8 AND HE WENT AFTER THE MAN OF ISRAEL INTO THE TENT AND THRUST BOTH OF THEM THROUGH, THE MAN OF ISRAEL, AND THE WOMAN THROUGH HER BODY. SO THE PLAGUE WAS STOPPED AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. 9 AND THOSE WHO DIED IN THE PLAGUE WERE TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND.
14 NOW THE NAME OF THE ISRAELITE WHO WAS KILLED, WHO WAS KILLED WITH THE MIDIANITE WOMAN, WAS ZIMRI THE SON OF SALU, A LEADER OF A FATHER'S HOUSE AMONG THE SIMEONITES. 15 AND THE NAME OF THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WAS KILLED WAS COZBI THE DAUGHTER OF ZUR; HE WAS HEAD OF THE PEOPLE OF A FATHER'S HOUSE IN MIDIAN.
So we have here a prominent member of the Tribe of Simeon, Zimri son of Salu, making an indecent exhibition of himself with a foreign woman in public in order to defy Moses and undermine the authority of the Torah. This is similar to what might happen today at certain left-wing social poilitical demonstrations.