DCC wants to rename Herzog Park

Pure MAGA type distraction from the fact they’re incapable dimwits- it’s a complete load of b0ll0x-

Solving real world problems within their remit (let alone making a dent in a massive conflict) requires hard work, alternatively you can engage in some sappy back clapping and fart huffing.

Renaming it makes us look petty, and has been gleefully jumped on by pro-Israeli commentators as evidence that Ireland is indeed anti-semitic; or at least venomously anti-Israeli.

I don't think it makes us "look" anti-semitic. It is anti-semitic. Does make us look petty alright, and hypocritical, given that the Sean Russell statue is still up in Fairview Park. A genuine Nazi collaborator.

Herzog's father was known as the Sinn Féin Rabbi because of his support for Irish independence. Chaim Herzog was the only Israeli President who was fluent in Irish. He is not to blame for Netanyahu's genocide in Gaza.

However I do support renaming somewhere after the Palestinian girl who was killed by Israel which is what the councillors want to do. I dont think we should give the impression to the Jewish minority here that we are erasing their contribution to the founding of this state.

It could be argued, a bit like criticising Israel's actions in Gaxa, that it's anti-Israel, based on him being a former Israeli President as opposed to based on his religion. Saying Israel was wrong in Gaza was also about Israeli actions, not the jewish religion.

But the pettiness of this does make that argument harder to make and define, especially when there's online commentators shouting this is evidence of Anti-Semitism.

It's an own goal, that you can be damn sure will make more headlines in Israel annd America than in Ireland, and people here will be surprised when its thrown back at us for years to come

you know not every one is a attention seeking hate filled bigot like you .

the eraser of history that you dont like is a key tactic of a fascist. but you already knew that right ?

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It could be argued, but it's a p1ss-poor argument. Because why didn't they remove the Sean Russell statue?

Or Dan Breen, who has the Tipperary hurling championship named after him, was interviewed in his home in about 1948, where the reporter was shocked to see a portrait of Hitler on the wall. But nobody renamed the championship. I'm sure there are other dodgy people who are still honoured around the country - but they're part of our history. As is Chaim Herzog.

By focusing on one man, who has nothing to do with Gaza anyway - certainly not the events since Oct 2023, it can only be taken as yet another example of Ireland's obsession with the Palestinian "cause". Apparently they want to rename it Free Palestine. Or Hind Rajab - a child whose parents had no doubt never heard of Ireland, much less the child herself. Unlike Chaim Herzog.

Shades of Bobby Sands Street in Tehran. Same level of spitting in the big boys' faces and running away. It's embarrassing.

(ETA: I forgot Roger Casement - not a Nazi, obviously, but a paedophile, and yet we have several places named after him, not just Casement Park in Belfast. Ireland doesn't care much about children when there are no political brownie points in it though. We've seen enough evidence of that.)

That won’t achieve what the attention seekers want

No, but when it comes to Israel and the Middle East the crazy is just around the corner.

We are an institutionally anti semitic country no doubt about it. It's getting beyond criticising Israel and it's military actions, this is full on endemic and institutional hatred of Israelis and Jewish people now, but Dublin City Council and any other city council for that matter, can rename as many parks buildings and streets etc as they like, the country of Israel and the Jewish people are going nowhere!

Anyway here is what the Israeli foreign minister has to say about this on X and i agree with him.

There is no decision more accurate and just than my decision to close our embassy in Dublin, shortly after I took office as Foreign Minister.Dublin has become the capital of antisemitism in the world.The Irish antisemitic and anti-Israeli obsession is sickening.The Dublin Municipality has decided to remove the name of Chaim Herzog - the sixth president of the State of Israel, who grew up in Dublin and whose father was the Chief Rabbi of Ireland - from a park in the city.What cannot be removed is the disgrace of the Irish antisemitic and anti-Israeli obsession.

Well they were handed control of Gaza in 2005. The reward for that the local populance putting Hamas into power and October 7th. Some people do a pretty good job at dehumanizing themselves without needing others to do it for them.

If you dont devoutly criticise Israel and call them genocidal child killers from a failed terrorist state then you are obviously an Islamophobe!

I bet you dont even own that fashionable Palestinian scarf that name escapes me.