Sean Gannon (journalist)

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 [ [http://www.changingworldviews.com/GuestCommentaries/Seangannoncom.htm Changing Worldviews website: Profile] ] .

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" [ [http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=6/c/archives/121120021 Exchange between Sean Gannon and Raymond Deane] ] .

In addition, Gannon has criticised aspects of Catholicism, particularly the policy of John Paul II towards Jews [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=703666] 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. [cite web|url=http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Views&enPage=ViewsPage&enDisplay=view&enInfolet=authorArchive.jsp&enDispWhat=Zone&enZone=Views&authorId=364 |publisher=israelinsider|title=Bio|accessdate=2008-06-30|date=]

References

Articles by Sean Gannon

* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={2124E243-7360-4A15-8222-A44879E625C4} Robert Fisk's Secrets and Lies]
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7DE6D5A0-F198-4EB5-9AB5-7A40D0254FB8 Israel's Right to the Land]
* [http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/1579.htm An Uncomfortable Kernel of Truth]
* [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/850715.html Boycotting the Boycotters]
* [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760481.html One Hundred Years of Hostility]
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9FA45715-273C-4C31-9590-45F6B1F9748A The Strategics of Suicide Terrorism]
* [http://www.aijac.org.au/review/2004/294/fodder.html Camera Fodder: Indoctrinating Palestinian Children]
* [http://www.peace-security-council.org/articles.asp?id=495 Hamas and the Irish Model]
* [http://www.changingworldviews.com/GuestCommentaries/Seangannonarticle8.htm The Iranian Root of the Problem]
* [http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/archives/040820042 The Law that Dares Not Speak its Name]
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID=B2FA09DF-F014-4F5B-83E6-9859A6EB1C44 A Concession Too Far]
* [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/0313/1205104697887.html Rockets not Settlements the Real Obstacle to Middle East Peace]
* [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/0815/1218747921606.html Role of Hamas in 'collective punishment']