Jon Ihle

who later went on to be president of Israel.

This is somebody who came from this country, who was born in this country, was raised here, immigrated somewhere else, and started a political dynasty, right?

And I compare them to the Kennedys in the U.S., who Irish people are rightly proud of.

for their contributions to American political culture.

Now, the idea that we'd rename this without ever consulting the Jewish community and find out, well, why are we honoring this person in the first place?

What does he mean to you?

And then to consider replacing that person's name.

I mean, it really felt like such an attack.

It felt like an act of erasure that we want to cram down the history that Irish Jews are proud of because we're angry about how this other country behaves.

That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.

I'm not talking about a march in O'Connell Street that says, stop the killing.

Like, fine.

That's okay.

But this, to me, was much more personalized, the Herzog Park thing.

And I think that's an example of where it has bled over, that the blast radius of anger about Israel has become so wide that...

Jewish people who have nothing to do with the decisions being made in Jerusalem are becoming collateral damage.