The Irish government has urged Dublin city to drop plans to rename a park currently named after a former Israeli president, a move described by local Jewish leaders and the Israeli government as “antisemitism”. A city committee proposed changing the name of Herzog Park, named after Chaim Hertzog, the sixth president of Israel who was born in Ireland, to Hind Rajab Park. The small park is located near the city’s only Jewish school. The committee did not explain its reasons, while Ireland has been among the most critical European countries of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over the war in Gaza, which...
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