Sean Gannon (journalist)

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Sean Gannon is an Irish journalist. As a freelance writer and researcher, he writes primarily on Irish and Middle Eastern affairs.

A prominent advocate of Israel, he contributes to numerous magazines and newspapers such as FrontPage Magazine, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Report, The Irish Times, Magill and the Israel Hasbara Committee. He is chairman of 'Irish Friends of Israel', a group which devotes its work to challenging and correcting what it perceives as anti-Israel bias and general misconceptions about the Middle East in Irish and British media^[1].

Gannon frequently exposes what he views as Arab culpability in the Middle Eastern conflict, criticising the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria, among others. He is also critical of Western perceptions of Israel, and has most notably challenged assertions made by Raymond Deane, the chairman of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in an exchange which took place in the letters pages of the Irish Times^[2].

In addition, Gannon has criticised aspects of Catholicism, particularly the policy of John Paul II towards Jews[1] and the Catholic Church's attitude to homosexuality. Most controversially, he has questioned the much-lauded reputation of Mother Theresa.

He is currently preparing a book on the relationship between Ireland and Israel since 1948^[3].

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[edit] Articles by Sean Gannon

• Robert Fisk's Secrets and Lies
• Israel's Right to the Land
• An Uncomfortable Kernel of Truth
• Boycotting the Boycotters
• One Hundred Years of Hostility
• The Strategics of Suicide Terrorism
• Camera Fodder: Indoctrinating Palestinian Children
• Hamas and the Irish Model
• The Iranian Root of the Problem
• The Law that Dares Not Speak its Name
• A Concession Too Far
• The Reddest of Palestinian Red Herrings