If by "they" you mean just Jews you are sorely mistaken. Alan Shatter had influence but not THAT much influence.
The Irish have been worshipping the black man (and occasionally Australian Aborigines and American Indians) for a couple of generations now.
- In the 1960s the Northern Ireland Civli Rights Association was based on the black movement in the US - usually marching singing the same song too (We Shall Overcome).
- Throughout the years Catholic Belfast has been the site of many wall murals dedicated to everyone from Frederick Douglas to Nelson Mandela. (The image below is typical).
- Irish pop singers have led the anti-racism movement in the British Isles. U2 started the Artists United Against Apartheid (with Steve Van Zandt), were the first to boycott Arizona over MLK Day, and their biggest hit, Pride (In the Name of Love), is about MLK. There were many more including Sinead O'Connor who sang:
England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses
It's the home of police who kill blacks boys on mopeds
- When Irish Americans in Boston protested against forced integration of schools it was Irish activists like the IRA's Bernadette Devlin who were first on their moral high horses condemning them.
- It was the Irish who to this day take great pride in their claim to have suffered with blacks because (supposedly) English pubs and hotels 9used to have signs saying "No Dogs, Blacks, or Irish allowed". You see, they were victims of racism and colonialism just like the Africans and Aborigines so solidarity with the Mandelas, Mugabes, and MLKs of the world gives them moral superiority over all other whites, especially Anglo-Saxons.
Now that they've got a large Nigerian population I think they are going to learn a few things in the years ahead.