Outrage over push to rename Dublin's Herzog Park | The National

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : " "We hope that the legacy of a figure at the forefront of establishing the relations between Israel and Ireland, and the fight against anti-Semitism and tyranny, will still get the respect it deserves today," the Israeli presidency said.
47% : In July, the committee agreed that a motion to remove the Herzog name would be put to councillors. Ireland has been among Israel's most vocal critics in Europe, and relations between the two countries are strained.
45% : He said that while local government laws give the council the authority to change the name, it requires them to do so using "a secret ballot of qualified electors" - but that regulations for such a ballot were "not yet in place".
41% : "The government has been openly critical of the policies and actions of the government of Israel in Gaza and the West Bank, and rightly so," said Irish Foreign Minister Helen McEntee.
32% : Ireland has been preparing to sanction trade with illegal Israel settlements for over a year.
31% : "The park was named after former Israeli president and Irishman Chaim Herzog in 1995, a few years after agreement of the Oslo Accords when the then Israeli government appeared to be serious about the two-state solution," he wrote on X. "That is the version of Israel that we want, not the vicious and criminal nationalism of

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