Noam Bettan representing Israel celebrates during the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 at Wiener Stadthalle on May 12, 2026 in Vienna, Austria. Photo by Christian Bruna/Getty Images As Boy George said: ‘If you don’t know any Jewish people, maybe that’s the problem.’ In the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 7,318 Poles are named as Righteous Among the Nations, an award given to gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. There were 32 million Catholic Poles in...

Oliver Sears, founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland, joins Hugh Linehan to talk about his growing alarm at the rise of anti-Semitism in Ireland and what he sees as the failure to take it seriously. They discuss whether the political response to Israel’s actions since October 7th 2023 has complicated that debate. The conversation covers questions such as where legitimate criticism of Israel ends and anti-Semitism begins, whether anti-Zionism can be distinguished from antisemitism, and what...

Only after the name-changing debacle of Herzog Park and Bondi beach attack, Government realised the Jewish community were not paranoid. A report on anti-Semitism in Ireland, released last week by the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, had some deeply distressing findings: 143 incidents were recorded over a six-month period ending in January 2026. If this were the UK, with 120 times more Jews, that would represent 17,000 incidents. The actual figure from the UK for the whole of 2025,...