We’ve recently been treated to the spectacle of Aengus Ó Snodaigh, a member of the lower house of Ireland’s parliament, comparing both Alan Shatter, the only Jewish member of the same legislature, and Zion Evrony, the Israeli ambassador to Ireland, to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

Writing in the Irish Independent, Kevin Myers points out that coming from the source that it does, this comparison is pretty rich.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh belongs to an organisation which once proclaimed Goebbels an ally, and which backed the Nazis against both Britain and Ireland. Furthermore, in 1941, IRA men lit fires on the Black Mountain to guide Luftwaffe bombers to Belfast. (The Luftwaffe didn’t notice. Among the target-markers was the latter-day IRA hero, Joe Cahill). Moreover, Aengus Ó Snodaigh has participated in rallies at the (now-destroyed) Dublin statue of Sean Russell, the Nazi collaborator, who might even have met Goebbels during his war-time trips to Berlin.

Read the rest of Myers characteristically exuberant column here. It’s interesting that he - a sworn enemy of all forms of political correctness - feels the need to end it with the clarificication that he is not a Zionist. Come on now, Kevin, being a Zionist just means that you think Jews have the same rights as the Uzbeks, Czechs and erm… Irish.