Page 35 | Is the renaming of Dublin’s Herzog Park antisemitic?

OpheliaIsntMad · 2025-11-30T00:19:59+00:00

I think it is . Why make this decision at a time when anti semitism is increasing?

SharonEllis · 10/01/2026 21:43

Oh, I don't know!

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OpheliaIsntMad · 10/01/2026 21:56

This thread has been a bit of an eye opener.
Thanks Sharon for not giving up in the face of some very obtuse pushback.

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SharonEllis · 10/01/2026 22:04

@OpheliaIsntMad its been revealing!

Jewishcraic · 15/01/2026 14:59

OpheliaIsntMad · 08/01/2026 10:48

I’d also like to point out there are substantial differences between the Jewish and Muslim communities in Ireland.
The Jewish community in Ireland is much smaller but also much older and more well established. They often can speak Irish, have an Irish accent (obviously) and are comfortable with Irish culture. The reason they are experiencing higher levels of abuse is to do with the war in Gaza - a situation they are not responsible for and have no control over.

The abuse received by the more newly arrived and immigrant communities is also terrible- but it comes from a different cause -there are some genuine concerns about housing/ welfare/ crime but these are being exploited and amplified by racists .

Any Form of racial abuse is abhorrent and I’m not saying one type is worse . I am saying that the Jewish community is not newly arrived in Ireland… but the level of abuse they are facing IS new .

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Sorry, haven't been on this thread for a while. Just want to correct you about the demographics of the Jewish community in Ireland. Many (I would say a vast majority now) are recent immigrants, often from Israel but from other countries too. Mostly educated people working in tech jobs so they speak english as well as Hebrew or other languages.

Jewishcraic · 15/01/2026 15:16

DaisyDenise · 10/01/2026 11:47

Just to mention that most people I know did not support what President Higgins did that day. There is a time and a place and he very much spoke out of turn imho. He shouldn’t have accepted the invitation. So please don’t think he wasn’t criticised for that here.

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Really? So please explain to me, a Jewish person who walked out of that event, why no one in the Jewish community has received an apology from anyone in the Irish government about it. Or the board of the HMD for that matter. They should apologise for MDH and the overreaction of the security guards.

Nothing.

Still debating if I should attend this years HMD. My dh refused to attend last year and this year.

No, we don't get people physically attacking us for being Jews. But its sad that many of us don't feel comfortable attending HMD.

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OpheliaIsntMad · 15/01/2026 15:18

Jewishcraic · 15/01/2026 14:59

Sorry, haven't been on this thread for a while. Just want to correct you about the demographics of the Jewish community in Ireland. Many (I would say a vast majority now) are recent immigrants, often from Israel but from other countries too. Mostly educated people working in tech jobs so they speak english as well as Hebrew or other languages.

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Thank you. I didn’t know that. Apologies

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DaisyDenise · 15/01/2026 18:07

Jewishcraic · 15/01/2026 15:16

Really? So please explain to me, a Jewish person who walked out of that event, why no one in the Jewish community has received an apology from anyone in the Irish government about it. Or the board of the HMD for that matter. They should apologise for MDH and the overreaction of the security guards.

Nothing.

Still debating if I should attend this years HMD. My dh refused to attend last year and this year.

No, we don't get people physically attacking us for being Jews. But its sad that many of us don't feel comfortable attending HMD.

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I am very sorry about what happened. I know lots of people who were very unhappy about the speech, but they’re not in government of course.

I find the government refrains from public criticism of the president.
It would be like the British government officially apologising for a speech given by King Charles. (Maybe they do that? I don’t know.)

President Higgins should have apologised. Well, he should have refused the invitation/kept his mouth shut actually imho.
I’m sorry.