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Irish Chief rabbi slams 'shameful' bid to rename Dublin's Herzog Park

Ireland's chief rabbi has described a proposal to rename a south Dublin park as a potential "shameful erasure" of Irish-Jewish heritage. Rabbi Yoni Weider praised the anticipated rejection of the Dublin City Council motion to change Herzog Park's name, though he questioned how such a proposal gained traction in the first place.

"The idea of removing the Herzog name from the park would have been a shameful erasure of a central part of Irish-Jewish history," he said on RTE Radio. The park received its name in 1995 in honor of Chaim Herzog, Israel's sixth president from 1983 to 1993, who was born in Belfast and grew up in Dublin.

His son Isaac Herzog currently serves as Israel's president, while his father held the position of Ireland's first chief rabbi, reports the Irish Mirror.

The renaming proposal drew criticism from prominent Irish leaders including Taoiseach Micheal Martin, Tánaiste Simon Harris, and Foreign Affairs Minister Helen McEntee, along with the Office of the President of Israel.

Officials expect the proposal to be withdrawn during Monday evening's Dublin City Council meeting.

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Awww...poor widdle anti-Semites got shut down...for now. :eys: