Dublin’s councillors have seen sense – for now. They were due to vote today on a proposal to rename the city’s Herzog Park. Chaim Herzog – the Belfast-born, Dublin-raised, British officer who helped liberate Bergen-Belsen, and became the sixth president of Israel – was set to be be airbrushed away in a ritual of performative righteousness. Some even proposed ‘Free Palestine Park’, a slogan as empty as it is vicious, as its new name. But late last night, Dublin City Council boss Richard Shakespeare said he was proposing to withdraw the report that could have led to the renaming of Herzog Park, on a point of legislative technicality. He apologised for ‘administrative oversight’. This will offer little reassurance to Dublin’s worried Jews.

This is not about a park. It is about whether Ireland still believes its Jewish citizens belong

The motion to erase Herzog’s name, which began last December with a Labour councillor, was turbo-charged by Sinn Féin and People Before Profit, and was steaming towards a vote today. Those who wanted the park’s name changed spoke blandly of Herzog’s........

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