A Letter To The Palestinian Ambassador

Addressed to Dr. Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid

Date: 12-05-2025

To Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid

Palestinian Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland

RE: The Far Right, counter protests and Recognition of a 32 county Republic

Dear Ambassador Wahba Abdalmajid,

My name is Stephen J. Delaney. I am writing to convey a response to you regarding a recent statement by yourself where you addressed an issue that is dear to my heart. The ownership of Ireland by the Irish people. Your words, “Ireland is for the Irish people, Palestine is for Palestinians” struck a nerve with more people in Ireland than you may be aware of. Maybe it was your intent to do so, maybe it was a vacuous statement however I am going to go with my gut and assume you knew exactly who you were speaking to. I am pleased to inform you that your words landed flush with the Nationalist movement here which is predominantly right wing as it currently stands and is going from strength to strength. Cllr. Patrick Quinlan, leader of the National Party responded positively to your statement and other Nationalist leaders like Malachy Steenson have a decorated history of supporting Palestinian self-determination. Unfortunately, although the more politically aware entities in our movement see the struggle of your native people as similar to our own, there are newer, well funded individuals being pushed by the hidden hand of Zionism that represent a threat to our movement here and also your relationship with the Irish people. I want to address this with you along with a few other points.

I will make no bones with you about where the Irish Nationalist movement stands on the Middle East. We see your conflict as disruptive to our political situation here. Large swathes of our activist class are preoccupied with Gaza while our own people are displaced and planted. We also see both the Zionist movement and Islamic expansionism as imperialist forces attempting to seize political power and alter cultural values here. As a predominantly right wing and nativist movement, also known as “the far right”, we are acutely aware of the strategy to infiltrate our ranks by Zionists as they have done in other western Nations in order to use the right/left political paradigm in their favour. The left wing of most countries is militantly Free Palestine while the right is abandoned, typically becoming an Israeli neo-conservative cesspit. In the case of Ireland this is not true. We are lucky enough to have a working class right wing movement here that airs on the side of Palestinian self-determination due to the similarities between Gaza/West Bank and Northern Ireland. It was Zionist Lloyd George who had a hand in the creation of both territorial dilemas after all. It is for this reason I want to warn you of a critical juncture on the horizon of the Irish politics.

The Irish Nationalist movement has resisted, far more than other nations, the Zionist inward creep. Our leadership is barren of its influence. Yet, when we gather to protest domestic issues such as replacement migration, we are met with counter protestors bizarrely carrying Palestinian flags and roaring abuse at the top of their lungs in your peoples name. Your cause is being used as a shield by UN and state funded NGO’s to further their own political aims here and it has caused a deepening sour taste in our mouths. Although we are trying to lead our people against our own Government, they cannot all resist the Israeli overtures in the face of undue hostility from behind the Alam Filasṭīn. What I am telling you Mrs. ambassador is that the Palestinian cause in my country is behaving so badly, so petulantly that it is pushing people towards pro-Israel stances by creating a reason for people to side with your oppressor. It is time you recognise that appealing only to left wing groups and allowing them to drape themselves in your cause while engaging in domestic culture wars is no longer a viable strategy for your mission here. You must appeal to us all and in that regard I ask this of you. Make a statement against the use of the Palestinian flag at counter protests against the Irish people in our own land, on our own streets. Preserve your good will with the Gael and it will be repaid in spades.

There is also the matter of the nature of the Palestinian mission on this island. It seems to me that you and your people have accepted and recognised the UK’s claim to the north east of this island. Why is it that your mission demands Palestinian recognition, from the river to the sea, but in return you send an alternative ambassador to the six counties in the North? I believe it is an insult to us as a people for you to expect our race to go so far for you and for yours to do so little in return in terms of mutual recognition of territory. This needs to change. Nothing less than an all island consulate, embassy or mission with you as the singular ambassador for all 32 counties will meet, mine, and I am sure many others expectations. Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot should never set foot on this island again. Instead, you should demand that Sinn Fein deal with you and you alone in the North. You are essentially a Deity to them as much of their political and financial well being is built off the back of the Palestinian cause. They couldn’t say no if they wanted to.

I am sure you are aware by now of the exodus of the working class away from globalist Sinn Fein. The large demonstration in Dublin two weeks ago caught the eyes of the world and I am sure yours too. This is the new politics, or rather the old politics again, of Ireland and her people. We will no longer tolerate the destructive policy of replacement migration or parallel societies within our territory. This means we will not open our doors and our hearts to a horde of Palestinians nor will we bend the knee to Israel. We will not incessantly wave your flags 24/7. We will however do something for you. We will refuse to stay silent as they try to genocide you but they will try to silence all of us through hate speech laws, just like on the campuses and streets of America, the UK and Germany. This brings me to my final point.

You must defend the right of the Irish people to free expression. With this expression, we can fight our corner here on our own issues but we can also criticise Israel too. If the EU succeeds in implementing hate speech laws in Ireland, your supporters here, many of whom are wealthy liberals driven by selfish motivations, will vanish back into their comfort zones. Their abandonment of you will be immediate. Our Nationalist movement will not evaporate so easily. In order to cement our peoples common cause I ask you to make it publicly known that you decry the Orwellian EU speech laws and their potential to destroy debate and make Zionism, among other groups, untouchable. This would be a political hammer blow to the EU and the Irish government and would endear the entire nation to you as an individual.

I do not speak for all of my movement but certainly the lions share of it. Most of us want your conflict out of our lives so we can focus on ourselves. What began in 1948 in Palestine is beginning to happen here in Ireland. We have our own long road ahead. Mass inward floods of people who want what we have signal the total erosion of our franchise and claim to the land. Our paradises are intrinsically linked in this respect. Uphold that link. Ireland is for Irish People, Palestine is for Palestinians.

Sincerely,

Stephen J. Delaney

Irish Nationalist