Is the renaming of Dublin’s Herzog Park antisemitic?

I wasn't talking to you on this point, unless you have two accounts?

I asked if you'd been on a FOREIGN government sponsored trip.

I've been on trips that were sponsored by my own government. Never by a foreign government though, and definitely not a foreign government that I write a lot of articles about.

Why? She has been very explicicit on numerous occasions about the nature of her heritage and identity. Why are you fixated on that and not the substance?

Im personally far, far more concerned about the rise of antisemitism in Ireland than one person who has, by any measure made a useful contribution to the debate and exposed a lot of the nature of antisemitism along the way.

Sure. I just think she should make it clear in her published pieces that she is identifying with Judaism or an ally rather than being Jewish.

Says the person who hasn’t read the article!!

From another piece, the Sunday Independent, the text not the headline —

“On the second night of Hanukkah, the Irish Jewish community gathered at Herzog Park to light the Hanukkah menorah and we were honoured to have Chaim’s granddaughter, Dr Alexandra Herzog, with us for the ceremony…
Speaking to Alexandra, I told her something I have had to say to myself many times over the past two years: “You’re Irish, too.” Irish history and identity belongs to us just as much as it belongs to the councillors who sought to erase Irish-Jewish memory.”

I don’t know. It’s odd to me anyway.
It seems a misrepresentation. Most of her readers (and publishers!) seem to think she’s Jewish. Whoever wrote that headline clearly did.

How do you know she didn't? Anyway, she's converting I believe and despite what some weirdo on twitter says she does have some paternal Irish heritage so she has every right to identify with Judaism if that is meaningful to her.

I haven't seen the article, so my point is only about the headline quote you cited. As a general rule, if you want to argue someone has lied about something important, do your due diligence.

Okay, it’s not just the headline though. It’s throughout. And she could have objected to the misrepresentation I guess?

She 100% did not write the headline. Even very well established journalists don't write their headlines.

The obsessive desire to find fault with this young woman is very peculiar. I know a lot of people, Jewish and not Jewish who know her and I have never heard a bad word about her. She is admired and respected in my experience, even when people don't agree with her.

If you go back and read the articles again it seems very strange, very discordant…’Listen to Jewish people when we tell you we are being betrayed’ (the Sunday Independent’s headline at the end Dec).

I was today years old when I learned about Rachel Moiselle, and have no idea whether she's claimed to be Jewish elsewhere or not, but she probably didn't write the headline. That's not how newspapers work.

You said she is a Catholic. She has not been a catholic for a decade. You said her motivations are 'very, very murky' without explanation which is certainly an insinuation and you haven't provided robust evidence of the details of this trip and why its a problem.

Yes, I have been on a government funded travel. Its not unusual. What were the circumstances of her trip - please link a reputable source about the details.

What? I don't follow. What have I said that's not true?

I hope they get prosecuted too. I think all acts of racism need to be swiftly and very aggressively dealt with.

Too many people who kept their racist crap to themselves in the past have now been emboldened by Trump.

I don’t know about her social media, but she has very clearly portrayed herself as a member of the Jewish community, rather than as an ally, when writing her newspaper articles.

If you go back and read the articles again it seems very strange, very discordant…’Listen to Jewish people when we tell you we are being betrayed’ (the Sunday Independent’s headline at the end Dec).

I don’t understand why she’s done this. It’s misleading and there was no need for it. Okay, it’s the message that is important but it’s just really odd.

The two very unpleasant items of graffiti in Louth were a thing that had not happened before. No one knows who painted them or why. I hope they are identified and prosecuted. But one isolated loon (or a few of them) writing random hateful comments on a rural road is not actually all that horrific.

Inappropriate yes.

The message is extremely important, I agree.

What I'm disagreeing with is you portraying people with extremely valid concerns about Rachel as "weird".

What's actually weird is the claims that Rachel makes up about Ireland on a regular basis.

https://x.com/A_New_Ireland/status/2008620713528217613
https://x.com/One_Advaita/status/1994772582587846877
https://x.com/dlLambo/status/2006894212122554746?s=20
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/letters-scrutiny-of-horror-in-gaza-and-empathy-for-its-people-is-political-not-antisemitic/a492964835.html

Do you have foreign governments funding trips for you? Really?