若要证明反犹主义会毁掉一切，只需看看爱尔兰共和国便知。曾经以热情好客著称的爱尔兰，总是对每一位访客说“热烈欢迎”；如今却充斥着对以色列的厌恶与敌意。究竟出了什么问题？
For proof that antisemitism destroys everything it touches, look no further than the Republic of Ireland. Once a famously friendly country, wishing "A hundred thousand welcomes" to every visitor, Ireland now seethes with Israelophobia. What went wrong?
爱尔兰国家足球队拒绝与以色列球员握手，实在可耻。周日，爱尔兰与以色列进行了一场足球对决，这场比赛充分暴露了爱尔兰人对这个犹太国家的恐惧与憎恶。
IRISH NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM SHOULD BE ASHAMED FOR NOT SHAKING HANDS WITH ISRAELI OPPONENTS The extent of Ireland’s fear and loathing of the Jewish state was apparent in its soccer clash against Israel on Sunday.
这场比赛是欧洲国家联赛的一部分。从赛程公布那一刻起，爱尔兰国内便群情激愤。都柏林那些戴着头巾的知识分子们质问道：“我们为何要和那些犯下种族灭绝罪行的疯子比赛？”
The two teams met as part of the UEFA Nations League. From the minute the fixture was announced, Ireland was gripped by rage. "Why would we want to play against those genocidal lunatics?", asked Dublin’s keffiyeh-adorned chattering class.
一股极端的排外情绪席卷了整个爱尔兰。人们发起了名为“阻止比赛”的倡议，试图让“我们的球员”免于蒙受与以色列人同场竞技的“耻辱”。
A Maoist fury descended on the Emerald Isle. A campaign was launched – "Stop The Game" – to try to save "our boys" from the shame of sharing a pitch with Israelis.
运动员、政客、媒体以及都柏林的左翼势力联合起来，要求取消这场比赛。他们叫嚷着，爱尔兰球员绝不应与“种族灭绝的凶手”打交道，甚至脑补出爱尔兰球员被狂怒的以色列球员围攻的荒诞场景。
Sportspeople, politicians, the media and the Dublin left clubbed together to demand the match be called off. Irish soccer players should not be made to mingle with "genocidal murderers", they cried, conjuring up a demented vision of the boys in green being set upon by wild-eyed Israeli players.
一度，那些戴着头巾的激进分子聚集在爱尔兰队下榻的都柏林酒店外，用扩音器叫嚷着要求取消比赛。
At one point, the keffiyeh mob gathered outside the Dublin hotel the Irish soccer team was staying in, barking through megaphones for the game to be stopped.
最终比赛还是如期举行。出于安全考虑，比赛在中立国匈牙利闭门进行。
In the end it went ahead. For security reasons, it had to be played behind closed doors in a neutral country – Hungary.
最新全球报告显示：反犹暴力已升至1994年以来的最高水平。即便在比赛中，爱尔兰人仍不忘对以色列冷嘲热讽。当以色列国歌响起时，爱尔兰球员纷纷低头；他们还佩戴黑色臂章，悼念所谓“在种族灭绝中丧生的人”。
ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE REACHES DEADLIEST LEVEL SINCE 1994, NEW GLOBAL REPORT FINDS Yet even at the game, the Irish couldn’t resist landing a smug blow on Israel. The Irish players bowed their heads during the Israeli national anthem. They wore black arm bands for those killed in Israel’s "genocide".
更恶劣的是，他们拒绝与以色列球员握手，仿佛对方沾染了道德上的“病毒”；仿佛只要触碰这些人就会染上“种族灭绝病”。这种行为既粗鲁又自私，完全违背了体育精神。
Worse, they refused to shake the Israeli players’ hands, as if they were morally diseased; as if you might catch the genocide bug simply by touching Those People. It was churlish, narcissistic and profoundly unsporting.
如今，整个爱尔兰都深陷反以色列的狂热之中。憎恶以色列已然成为爱尔兰文化界的道德准则。人们通过表达对这个犹太人家园的敌意来彰显自身的“高尚品德”；你越痛恨以色列，就越显得“道德高尚”。
Ireland has been consumed, head to toe, by the anti-Israel frenzy. Hating Israel is now the moral glue of the cultural establishment. They define their "virtue" through their animus for the Jewish homeland. The more you hate Israel, the more virtuous you become.
这种狂热情绪无处不在。媒体痴迷于大肆渲染他们所谓的以色列“战争罪行”。
The mania is everywhere. The media is obsessed with what it falsely calls Israel’s "war crimes".
最近一项分析显示，今年1月至5月期间，包括国家广播公司RTE在内的爱尔兰四家主要媒体共发布了3007篇有关巴以问题的报道，平均每天20篇，数量远超其他任何话题。
A recent analysis found that between January and May this year, four of Ireland’s main media outlets, including state broadcaster RTE, published 3,007 reports about Israel-Palestine. That’s 20 a day. More than on any other topic.
政治圈内同样充斥着这种仇恨情绪。政客们公然称以色列为“令人作呕的犹太复国主义政权”。
The hate is rife in political circles, too. Politicians openly refer to the "disgusting Zionist regime" .
爱尔兰政府甚至试图淡化“种族灭绝”的定义，只为能借此给以色列定罪。简而言之：就是要陷害犹太人。
The Irish government has even agitated for a watering down of the meaning of "genocide" in order that we might finally find Israel guilty of it. Shorter version: Let’s stitch up the Jews.
爱尔兰最具影响力的文化代表——从说唱组合Kneecap到畅销书作家莎莉·鲁尼——谈论的话题也几乎全是关于以色列的。
Ireland’s biggest cultural exports – from rap outfit Kneecap to bestselling author Sally Rooney – speak of little else besides Israel.
反以色列的敌意随处可见：不仅在欧洲公认的“恐以之都”都柏林如此，在乡村地区也不例外。最近我在爱尔兰西部骑车时，竟在一片羊群所在的田野里看到了巴勒斯坦旗帜。羊群也成了巴勒斯坦的“支持者”？真是绝妙啊。
You can feel the anti-Israel animus everywhere. Not only in Dublin, Europe’s undisputed capital of Israelophobia. Also in the countryside. I was cycling in the West recently when I saw a Palestine flag in a random field of sheep. Sheep for Palestine? How fitting.
情况恶劣到如此地步，以至于以色列于2024年做出了关闭驻都柏林大使馆这一极为罕见的决定，理由就是爱尔兰“恶意妖魔化这个犹太国家”。
Things got so bad that Israel took the extraordinary decision to shut its embassy in Dublin in 2024, citing Ireland’s "demonization of the Jewish state".
爱尔兰人会辩称自己只是在“批评以色列”。可现在肯定没人会相信这种说辞了吧？“对以色列的批评”一旦变得过度且偏执，就已然演变为反犹太主义的偏执狂行为了；更糟糕的是，这种批评还助长了当今最恶劣的错误论调——即把以色列描述成一个极其野蛮的国家，甚至与20世纪30年代的纳粹无异。
The Irish will say they are just "criticizing Israel". Surely no one’s buying this anymore? "Criticism of Israel" crosses the line into antisemitic bigotry when it becomes disproportionate and obsessive. When it promotes the great, toxic falsehood of our age – namely that Israel is a uniquely barbarous nation not unlike the Nazis of the 1930s.
爱尔兰境内的犹太人仅约3000人而已。至于那个犹太国家，则远在距离都柏林2500英里之外，是个爱尔兰人根本无法施加任何影响的国家。
There are only around 3,000 Jews in Ireland. As for the Jewish state – it is 2,500 miles from Dublin, a distant nation over which the Irish have no influence whatsoever.
那么，为何爱尔兰的精英阶层会对那个小国如此痴迷呢？
So why have Ireland’s elites become so feverishly obsessed with that tiny country?
我认为这源于爱尔兰自身的道德混乱。自天主教会逐渐走向衰落以来，爱尔兰一直在寻求一套新的道德体系，寻找关于善恶的全新叙事方式。
I think it stems from Ireland’s own moral disarray. Ever since the slow-motion collapse of the Catholic Church, Ireland has been on the hunt for a new system of morality, for a new narrative of Good and Evil.
爱尔兰总理对抵制以色列赛事的激烈争论中出现的反犹主义担忧予以驳斥。而如今，爱尔兰在以色列-加沙危机中找到了这种新道德体系。对后天主教时代的爱尔兰而言，以色列俨然成了撒旦的代名词，是一个可供爱尔兰人用来衡量自身“美德”的邪恶化身。
IRISH PM REJECTS ANTISEMITISM CONCERNS IN IRELAND AMID DRAMATIC VOTE OVER BOYCOTTING ISRAEL GAME And it has found it in the Israel-Gaza crisis. Israel has become a kind of Satan substitute for post-Catholic Ireland, a demonic entity against which the Irish might measure their virtue.
如今，爱尔兰人的身份认同几乎完全建立在反以色列的立场之上。自称“具有爱尔兰文化血统”的艾德·希兰就因麦克莱莫尔事件深刻体会到了这一点。由于对以色列的抨击力度不够，希兰在爱尔兰几乎被彻底边缘化。一位专栏作家怒斥道：他“今后永远都不该再被爱尔兰接纳”。
Irishness is now defined almost entirely by its antipathy to Israel. Ed Sheeran, who calls himself "culturally Irish", found this out following the Macklemore scandal. Sheeran was virtually unpersoned in Ireland for failing to be sufficiently venomous about the Jewish state. He should "never feel welcome in Ireland ever again", fumed one columnist.
由此可见：身为爱尔兰人就意味着必须憎恶以色列。反犹主义向来是一种极具破坏力的思想病毒，是一种令人丧失理智的阴谋论，在这种论调下犹太人被视作世间一切弊病的根源。而眼下，爱尔兰正深陷这种病毒的影响之中。
There you have it: to be Irish is to hate Israel. Antisemitism has always been an all-consuming mind virus, a blinding conspiracy theory where the Jews come to be seen as the source of every earthly ill. And right now, Ireland has got this virus bad.