After facing criticism, Dublin tables proposal to rename Herzog Park -- for now

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : His son, Isaac Herzog, is the president of Israel today.
56% : "We hope that the legacy of a figure at the forefront of establishing the relations between Israel and Ireland, and the fight against antisemitism and tyranny, will still get the respect it deserves today.
48% : The park was renamed in 1995 for Chaim Herzog, the son of the first Irish chief rabbi who became Israel's sixth president in 1983, seven years after famously ripping up a United Nations resolution that declared "Zionism as Racism."
42% : The campaign came amid staunch pro-Palestinian sentiment in Ireland, where Israel recently shuttered its Dublin embassy, citing "antisemitic rhetoric of the Irish government," including its recognition of an independent Palestinian state and its support for anti-Israel resolutions in international bodies during the war in Gaza.
35% : Pro-Palestinian activists called for the park to be stripped of the Herzog name during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, citing Chaim Herzog's role as a prominent defender of Zionism.

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