Is the renaming of Dublin’s Herzog Park antisemitic?

I don’t think too many on this thread live in Ireland or NI, do they?
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding unfortunately.

I thought there were economic objections to unification. People I have spoken to on this topic don't seem over excited about unification at all.

The reason independence is dangerous is because of loyalist terrorists, not republican terrorists, you do realise that? They’re the ones who’d object violently.
Although the IRA would respond of course and back to square one…

Nobody wants that, or very, very few at least.
Not Kneecap anyway. I don’t see that. They’re playing.

its lovely to be a pacifist when you are hiding behind another countries/continents army. And you aren't worried that you will be murdered for being Jewish by someone who was inspired by the likes of Kneecap, one of whom "...draped in a Hizballah flag, shouted to the crowd, “Up Hamas, up Hizballah.”

I'm not overly concerned about my safety in Ireland, (although plenty of my fellow Irish Jews are) but I bet little Matildas parents weren't either. Or the others who got murdered on sunday (I went to school with one of the victims so this has hit me very hard)

People supporting Hamas are not moderates or pacifists.

I wish Kneecap would stop being so yellow and disingenuous and just proudly out themselves as strong republicans and supporters of ‘resistance’. It’s so clear for anyone to see and the fannying around pretending they’re ’against all conflict’ while signalling the opposite is just cowardly.

I have no feelings about Irish independence or what happens on the island of Ireland in general, I’m English but see it as none of my business and whatever they decide good luck to them. If the majority want to completely cut ties that’s a matter for them and they should be free to hold that referendum and get on with it. But I hold nothing but contempt for mealy mouthed losers like Kneecap who know ultimately they can agitate to their heart’s content and will be surrounded by security, cheering crowds and a legion of blue haired yobbos online.

Kneecap are not the PIRA, though they are republican. They say their name is ironic as they are singing about things that would have got them kneecapped where they live (Belfast). There is also an Irish language pun involved in the name. They say they support peace, for Ireland and Palestine, though they are undoubtedly controversial.

The president, Catherine Connolly, is a pacifist so probably does represent a lot of Irish people. She has vowed to use her presidency as a “voice for peace”. She greeted the band member at a 10km charity run they had organised to raise funds for “the Gaza Food and Play project, which provides emergency food, water and crucial psychosocial support for children in Gaza”.

thats just not true. I think radical Islamists get very encouraged by leftists shouting globalise the intafada on their weekly marches.

And if your teenager was being bullied in school for being Jewish by his Irish Catholic classmates, you might feel a teeny bit differently about this.

Can you explain why a member of a band called kneecap was greeted by the President of Ireland yesterday then?

Or does she not represent the average people of Ireland?

This fantasy that ‘Ireland knows what it’s like for Palestinians’ is laughable

You’re not in Ireland I think @OpheliaIsntMad? Or you’d realise how much the average Irish person abhorred the actions of the provisional IRA. They did not stand for me, or the people I know. I’d run miles from any known IRA associates so I’m not sure what point you’re making here.

With the exception of the US, where a violent white supremacist antisemitic threat exists, the violent threat to Jewish communities across the West comes from a single group - radicalised Islamists - who are not paying any attention to the spouting platitudes of Irish nationalists or lefty uni students. They hate them too.

There are a lot of Irish nationalists who identify very strongly with Palestine (just like there are lots of Ulster Unionists who identify very strongly with Israel), but Irish nationalists have never committed violent antisemitic attacks and I don’t think any reasonable person would foresee that as something that is likely to happen. Their words do not make Irish Jews less safe.

The Taoiseach’s words echo those of other elected officials, a rare example of Ireland’s political class collectively agreeing to tone down the old Jew-baiting just this once.

I mean, the above is the sort of absolute rubbish the Spectator has seen fit to publish on the matter. More fool the people who believe it. All you can do is ignore.

Surely whether it’s true or not should matter?
I don’t think Ireland is worse than anywhere else, there’s no evidence of that. Not that that’s good enough of course, I’m not saying that! It’s not. But singling Ireland out seems like a defence mechanism because of their criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza.

I agree. My point was that word is spreading, whatever the source.

The Spectator is not exactly an unbiased source!

100 per cent. I think this is partially why I feel more comfortable in NI. I used to take pride in being Irish but I don’t really care any more and I can see the likes of RTE and the Times from a different angle now and how massively biased they are.

The narrative around antisemitism in Ireland is spreading like wildfire (see the Spectator for instance). Our reputation as the land of 1000 welcomes is dwindling rapidly.