That sentiment faces a test at Dublin City Council on Monday evening when Dublin City Council meets over a proposal to rename a small park in Rathgar named after Chaim Herzog, the Irish-born former president of Israel. Herzog Park is in an area that has long been at the centre of Jewish life in Dublin, close to the only Jewish school in the country. Among the parties represented on Dublin City Council, it is the official position of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Sinn Féin, Labour and the Social Democrats that there should be a two-state solution. Many will see the proposal to rename Herzog Park as an act of erasure that would write the Jewish community out of Ireland’s story. This gesture is the wrong one and Dublin City Council should reject it.
