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NEWS OF THE WORLD - Marketers Struggle to Use Irish Jew Hate to Market Guinness.

Not totally true, but pretty close.

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Oct 10, 2025
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A bold effort to sell more beer, famed Irish brewer Guinness is trying to tap into the country’s newly discovered natural resource: anti-Semitism.

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