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,...

A survey on Holocaust awareness in Ireland shows that 9% of adults between 18 and 29 believe the calamity to be a myth. Photograph: Michael Dalder/Reuters Repair and restoration can only be achieved with meaning by embracing the children and grandchildren of the perpetrators. A survey on Holocaust awareness in Ireland shows that 9% of adults between 18 and 29 believe the calamity to be a myth. Photograph: Michael Dalder/Reuters Holocaust Remembrance Day holds special significance for me this...

People in Australia pay their respects to the victims of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Photograph: Audrey Richardson/Getty Images A number of years ago, I visited the old ghetto in Venice, Europe’s oldest, established at the beginning of the 16th century. It still retains the original five synagogues that catered for both Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditions that had settled in Venice. Our guide was passionate about his Venetian, Jewish heritage and proud of the multiculturalism of...