Edomite/Jewish actions hostile to Irish people: 12th century Jews were directly involved in financing the Norman conquest of Ireland which led to the destruction of the Gaelic High Kingship of Ireland and the enslavement of the nation for 800 years. Specifically, there are records of a Jew by the name of Josce of Gloucester funding the main leader of the first wave of the Norman invasion, Richard Strongbow de Clare in 1170: this fact is openly admitted in the Jewish Enclyclopedia. Jewish Encyclopedia The first authentic mention of Jews in Ireland is a record, dating from 1079, that "five Jews came over the sea bearing gifts to Fairdelbach [Hua Brian], and were sent back over the sea." No further reference is found until nearly a century later, in the reign of Henry II. of England. That monarch, fearful lest an independent kingdom should be established in Ireland, prohibited a proposed expedition thither. Strongbow, however, went in defiance of the king's orders; and, as a result, his estates were confiscated. In his venture Strongbow seems to have been assisted financially by a Jew; for under date of 1170 the following record occurs: "Josce Jew of Gloucester owes 100 shillings for an amerciament for the moneys which he lent to those who against the king's prohibition went over to Ireland" (Jacobs, "Jews of Angevin England," p. 51). The Jews of Angevin England; documents and records, from the Latin and Hebres sources, printed and manuscript by Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916 https://archive.org/details/jewsangevinengl00jacogoog
Edomite/Jewish actions hostile to Irish people: 12th century Jews were directly involved in financing the Norman conquest of Ireland which led to the destruction of the Gaelic High Kingship of Ireland and the enslavement of the nation for 800 years. Specifically, there are records of a Jew by the name of Josce of Gloucester funding the main leader of the first wave of the Norman invasion, Richard Strongbow de Clare in 1170: this fact is openly admitted in the Jewish Enclyclopedia. Jewish Encyclopedia The first authentic mention of Jews in Ireland is a record, dating from 1079, that "five Jews came over the sea bearing gifts to Fairdelbach [Hua Brian], and were sent back over the sea." No further reference is found until nearly a century later, in the reign of Henry II. of England. That monarch, fearful lest an independent kingdom should be established in Ireland, prohibited a proposed expedition thither. Strongbow, however, went in defiance of the king's orders; and, as a result, his estates were confiscated. In his venture Strongbow seems to have been assisted financially by a Jew; for under date of 1170 the following record occurs: "Josce Jew of Gloucester owes 100 shillings for an amerciament for the moneys which he lent to those who against the king's prohibition went over to Ireland" (Jacobs, "Jews of Angevin England," p. 51). The Jews of Angevin England; documents and records, from the Latin and Hebres sources, printed and manuscript by Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916 https://archive.org/details/jewsangevinengl00jacogoog
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