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Fergie Chambers Fled Ireland Fearing Surveillance After Pro-palestinian Activism
The night before Fergie Chambers left Ireland in June, the US-born multimillionaire-turned-communist was nervous. He had told a friend it felt as if he was being followed. He said his car had been broken into outside the €7 million Dublin home he had purchased when he relocated with his family, but nothing of value was stolen.
Ireland was supposed to be a safe haven for Chambers, once an heir to one of the largest family fortunes in the US, but more recently a prodigal son. By the age of 41, he had transformed from a New York private school kid, who was relatively unaware of the scale of his family’s wealth, to a self-described “professional revolutionary” tattooed with portraits of Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong. He claimed he wanted to see the fall of America.
But it was his pro-Palestinian activism that was making him paranoid on that summer night in Dublin. Chambers had left the US three years earlier after a series of Palestine Action protests. The factories of an Israeli weapons supplier were vandalised and four young women, Chambers’s comrades from a commune he funded in rural Massachusetts, had been jailed.
Source: The Irish Times World
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