Move amounts to ‘rewarding of a terrorist organisation’, says chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland
Jewish Representative Council of Ireland chairman Maurice Cohen: Recognition of a Palestinian state was “an act of pure folly”. Photograph: JRCIamounted to the “rewarding of a terrorist organisation for committing the single greatest atrocity on the Jewish people since the Shoah, the Holocaust”, and was “an act of pure folly”, the chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland has said.
During the installation ceremony on Tuesday, President of Israel Isaac Hertzog said Ireland was not immune to the growth in anti-Semitism since the October 7th Hamas massacre and kidnapping of hostages.
Mr Weider , whose grandfather is a survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, said he was “distressed by the ongoing pain since October 7th”. Senior members of the Jewish community in Ireland, “once so proud in their Judaism and their place in Irish society”, had told him “that never before have they felt such a tension between those two identities, never before have they thought that their viewpoint as Jewish people to be so delegitimised”, he added.
Noting Mr Weider’s grandfather was a survivor of the Holocaust, he said this showed “not only the triumph of Jewish people but also of Jewish faith and it announces to the world the Jewish people will forever live and thrive”.
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