Posted on 12/03/2025 12:36:06 AM PST by Olog-hai
Dublin councilors halted plans to rename a park currently honoring a past Israeli president that had drawn criticism from the Irish and Israeli governments, the city council said on Sunday.
The park, located near Dublin’s sole Jewish school, is named after Ireland-born Chaim Herzog, Israel’s sixth president.
Ireland, home to about 3,000 Jewish people, has been among the most outspoken critics of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, and the move to rename “Herzog Park” followed a campaign by anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activists, but official council documents did not disclose a reason for the proposal.
The proposal had been scheduled for a city council vote in the near future.
But after it drew accusations of antisemitism, Dublin City Council Chief Executive Richard Shakespeare announced he was “proposing to withdraw the report from the Agenda,” citing procedural reasons. […]
Earlier Sunday, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin had argued in a statement on X that the proposal “should be withdrawn in its entirety.”
“The proposal is a denial of our history and will without any doubt be seen as antisemitic,” Martin said, calling it “overtly divisive and wrong.” …
Herzog, who died in 1997, was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland and grew up in Dublin before serving as Israeli president between 1983 and 1993. His father was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland after it gained independence from Britain in 1922, while his son, Isaac Herzog, is the current Israeli president. …
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Why do the Irish hate Israel and Jews now? Soon enough they will be battling the Muslim hoards in their streets in a bloody war. They will then be sorry when the PLO/HAMAS/Islamic Jihad take away their pints of Guinness, their pubs and pork products.
Then they will cry on the floor of the 200 new Mosques built in their cities. You dumb sh*ts, the Jews are you friends not the people in Kaffiyas.
There are lots of parks in Dublin.
Renaming one makes a huge statement.
In this case, huge a statement of antisemitism!
Shame to even consider this!
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