Is the renaming of Dublin’s Herzog Park antisemitic?

[OpheliaIsntMad]

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

"tinpot paramilitary groups" can also cause a lot of harm, as evidenced by 7/10.

Is it? There are an awful lot of potentially terrible ramifications with that.

Ireland has had a good reputation in the past for treating people from minority groups fairly

Does it? Maybe have a think about why so many Irish travellers choose to relocate to the UK.

Yes - it’s an appalling thing to say - it implies that each country can treat minorities however badly they wish

Yes, when they get lucky, and benefit from the element of surprise. But that’s not a tactic you can repeat all that frequently - made clear from the fact that it has been 50 years since we saw the Arab states do the same thing in the Yom Kippur War.

And it only worked because the Israeli government had got lazy about the Gaza border. Netanyahu had arrogantly convinced himself that he had successfully bought Hamas off, and was therefore happy to transfer countless IDF units to defend the illegal settlements in the West Bank - in accordance with the wishes of his far-right coalition partners - leaving the kibbutzim in the Gaza envelope, and their left-leaning populations who don’t vote for him, undefended.

Quick! We better rename everything named after a white Christian man, as Vladimir Putin is one of those and he’s committed horrific war crimes.

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Yes its antisemitic.

And heartening to see that while there's the usual vocal antisemites on here thinking its appropriate to hold a long dead Jew accountable for the crimes of the current Israeli administration- 70% of people can see the truth.

Or just maybe Irish people don’t like to hear about tens of thousands of innocent people being killed.

That’s not a justification for erasing Jewish names from Dublin’s public spaces.

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Herzog is not just a long-dead Jewish person though is he?

He left Ireland aged 18 and became Israel's president!

For some reason a park was named after him, and just as other 'great and the good' his history has been re-visited.

The topic of this thread is the renaming of the park in Dublin .

Context is everything-
This is a time of increasing antisemitism across Europe.
Jewish people have been threatened and attacked across Europe. It sends a message that Jewish people living outside Israel can/ should be held responsible for Gaza.

Ireland has always seemed to have a problem with antisemitism. I assume the dominance of the Catholic Church goes some way to explain it.

Yes but I was replying to a specific post and I didn’t mention the park at all

So what is your view of the thread question?

?! Its literally the point of this thread 😅

What is?

I don’t know why they want to do it

What do you mean, "what is"? You see the big black bolded title at the top kf the page love? Those are thread subjects. They're used to give you a pointer as to what a threads discussion is about X

Well if you had bothered to read the thread you might get some clues … ( the answer is antisemitism by the way )

So you mean I can only talk to the OP and not reply to someone else then lovey? Ok bye then

Unfortunately, there is indeed increased antisemitism across Europe but that doesn't mean we can't criticise Israel - is it beyond reproach?

If Jewish people in Europe support the current Netanyahu government then yes they can be held responsible for Gaza. Many young European Jews do military service in Israel, often in the Occupied Territories - is that OK?

It is antisemitic, no ifs or buts please. The erasure of the Irish Jewish community and their contribution to Irish life is well underway. As an Irish citizen I am deeply concerned at how antisemitic Ireland is. It seems to me to be a perfect storm of several things:

1. A hangover from Catholic antisemitism
2. The unhistorical and inaccurate conflation of Irish insuregency with the Palestinian/Israeli conflict
3. A weird cultural/national belief that we are the best and most moral people in the world.
4. Left-wing antisemtism which is baked into Sinn Fein/IRA politics.