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Mick Clifford: The Herzog Park debacle is what happens when symbolism replaces sense

The attempt to rename Herzog Park shows how exaggerated gestures and extreme rhetoric can hinder Ireland’s credibility on Israel–Palestine
Mick Clifford: The Herzog Park debacle is what happens when symbolism replaces sense

As Palestinians live in the rubble of Gaza, Irish gesture politics does nothing to ease their plight.  Picture: Majdi Fathi/Getty

If the Israeli government was looking for “useful idiots”, it could hardly have found better than People Before Profit.

Think about it. You are engaged in propaganda on behalf of a state that is perpetrating wholesale murder of Palestinians. You need to deflect criticism by claiming it is self-defence and portraying objections as antisemitism. And along comes this outfit in Ireland which is just what you’re looking for.

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