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The potato joke is also a joke about a genocide.
Oh, then what's the problem?
The Irish genocide is far enough in the past to have become sort of "folklore".
No one who experienced it is still alive or in living memory.
That makes it better suited for small talk, and not equivalent to the Israeli genocide.
Also, unlike the Shoa/Holocaust, it's not that commonly known that the potato famine was a genocide, inflicted by the english.
That doesn't make the Iseraeli's comment ok. Just that they probably didn't know how much their comment was in bad taste.