Now Ireland is erasing its Jewish history. This week Dublin City Council will vote on a proposal to change the name of Herzog Park in the south of Dublin. The park was named for Chaim Herzog, the Belfast-born, Dublin-raised Jew who later became the sixth president of Israel. ‘Following consideration, the Committee agreed… that the name “Herzog” should be removed from the park’, says the council’s chilling proposal. Scrubbing the name of a Jew from a public park? Tell me that isn’t anti-Semitism.

For two years now, Herzog Park has been the focal point of that spittle-flecked Israelophobic fury that is so commonplace in modern Ireland. Last year an online petition demanded that its name be changed to ‘Hind Rajab Park’, after the five-year-old Palestinian girl tragically killed in the Gaza war. Some anti-Israel agitators took it upon themselves to rechristen the park with this new name – they put up a sign and festooned it with Palestinian flags.

His name was Chaim Herzog. Memorise it before they erase it from the historical record. He was the son of Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, who was Chief Rabbi of Ireland from 1921 until 1936. Rabbi Herzog was a passionate supporter of........

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