A Palestine necklace being removed from a TV show has thus far generated infinitely more Irish press coverage and media discussion than a prestigious Dublin hotel cancelling a booking of 70 attendees when they learned they were there for a conference on antisemitism. I’m not saying the below doesn’t warrant discussion, it does and I actually disagree with the necklace being removed. But we’ve been inundated with this necklace story for days now. Unlawful discrimination by one of the fanciest hotels in the country is objectively the far bigger story here and it didn’t gain a fraction of the coverage. Indeed, it was widely covered internationally, including by the New York Times, yet to my knowledge there were two articles (RTÉ and Irish Times) on the subject here. Sin é/that’s it. When we talk about media bias, that doesn’t merely encompass content of coverage, but level of coverage as well. What the Irish media chooses to focus on (and in the case of the UEFA fixture against Israel, obsess about for months) is telling in and of itself. A necklace being removed from a show warrants a national discussion, but antisemitic discrimination by a top Dublin hotel does not. The question must be asked: why?