Letters to the Editor: Ireland needs a national campaign to tackle racism

Racism, including antisemitism and islamophobia, is an assault on human dignity that we can no longer tolerate

'Racism is in a noxious little category of its own. We should be giving it the red card before the match even starts.' Picture: iStock 

There’s a crying need for a nationwide anti-racism awareness campaign to counteract the tidal wave of hate unleashed by those who target people because of their colour, ethnicity, or country of origin.

Much of it is aimed at refugees and asylum seekers, on social media, in street graffiti, and in direct verbal, and sometimes physical, attacks on people.