The Dublin city council is set to vote to rename a park named after Israel’s Irish-born sixth president, Chaim Herzog, following a campaign by anti-Israel groups amid a swell in anti-Israel sentiment in Ireland since the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre that sparked the war in Gaza.

A city council report dated Monday said the council approved a report on “Herzog Park — removal of existing name and consultation on a new name,” which has referred the decision to the city council after Dublin’s 11-member Commemorations and Naming Committee “agreed, with one objection, that the name ‘Herzog’ should be removed.”

The report did not say what the new name might be or when the 63-member city council will vote on the motion. Herzog’s son Isaac, Israel’s current, expressing concern over the move, indicated he understood that the park could be renamed “Free Palestine” park.

Sharing a copy of the report on X, Irish Jewish pro-Israel activist Rachel Moiselle said the city council “has made an antisemitic decision to change the name of Herzog park, a blatant attempt to erase Irish-Jewish history.”

“Ireland is an institutionally antisemitic country,” she said. “To deny it in the face of such overwhelming evidence is pure folly.”

The south Dublin park, which houses a tennis club and 10 tennis courts, was named in Herzog’s honor in a 1995 ceremony marking the tri-millennium of Jerusalem, according to the Dublin City Council website. It was previously called Orwell Quarry Park, according to the website.

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