There’s nothing wrong with Ireland nor Scotland. What unites them is not their unabashed public antisemitism, vile as it is. It’s the politicians and public figures in them who seek to use that antisemitism for their own fame, and in both states those people received a public slap in the face today.

Let’s start with mediocrity

In Ireland there’s a park; it’s in Dublin’s southern suburb Rathgar and few outside the city would know is there. Fewer still would know the names of the Dublin City Council members who control it. Over in Scotland where the Saint Andrews Cross flies in the UK, more would know the name of its most recent former first minister, Hamza Yousaf.

This “small woodlands area” as the Dublin City Council calls it is Herzog Park. It’s named after Chaim Herzog. He was Israel’s 6th president. Ordinarily one’s religion shouldn’t matter in public political life, but not for Hamza Yousaf. In 2017 Yousaf went on the record in the Crescent International advertising at length his ethnicity. At one point he said, “Since my religion is Islam, and I submit to the will of the Creator, I am a Muslim.” He wasn’t yet Scotland’s first minister but even then he wanted to leverage Islam for future personal gain.

Dublin City Council and Yousaf are mediocrities in the game of using antisemitism for shock and notoriety. When it came to Herzog, however, there was no game. He was just Jewish.

A park in Dublin

Herzog’s term as president (1983-1993) was historical. It spanned the birth of Hezbollah in Lebanon, past the downfall of the Soviet Union. It ended just prior to Yeltsin’s coup against a communist resurgence in Russia that signalled the birth of quasi-dictatorship there later taken up by Vladimir Putin.

In the world, this is the period that brought defeat to Yasser Arafat’s PLO in Lebanon and Tunisia, saw the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza under the name “Hamas”, Gulf War 1 and Israel’s saga against Sadaam’s Scuds, and the beginning of suicide bombings that went with the insertion of the jihadist term “intifada” in the pro-Palestinian propaganda lexicon.

Ironically, were it not for the ramp up in Irish official antisemitic rhetoric since Hamas’s attack on Israel in 2023 in the guise of anti-Zionism, many today wouldn’t have known that Chaim Herzog was also Irish.

Even more ironic for the the current Irish parliament, Chaim Herzog’s father Yitzhak was Ireland’s Chief Rabbi, a staunch nationalist and “affectionately known as the ‘Sinn Féin Rabbi’” according to a quote by the Irish Times.

Yet, that didn’t stop the removal of a plaque in 2014 showing Chaim’s birthplace in Belfast after antisemitic vandalism against it.

So, on Saturday November 29, fate hit the fan when the Dublin City Council tabled a motion to de-name Herzog Park and re-name it “Hind Rajab Park” that the council said would serve, “to commemorate a five-year-old girl, Hind, killed by the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) on January 29th, 2024, along with six of her relatives”, in the same Irish Times piece.

Since 2023 Ireland had been riding a wave of antisemitism contradictory to the country’s Emerald Isle image sending its tourism plummeting. It baffled the world. Its Israeli embassy had closed. Alongside Spain it was rattling sabres over Israel’s participation in Eurovision and UEFA. It called for an anti-Israel boycott. It had joined a weak South Africa in the ICJ alleging Israeli genocide in Gaza. Now this new effort to erase Jewish history was being seen as a test of it becoming a pariah state.

To the West’s relief, both Ireland’s foreign minister and its prime minister yesterday voiced anger at the Dublin City Council’s upcoming Herzog vote.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee said, “Renaming a Dublin park in this way, to remove the name of an Irish Jewish man, has nothing to do with this and has no place in our inclusive republic.”

Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Michel Martin issued a statement that was even stronger:

The proposal to rename Herzog Park should be withdrawn in its entirety and not proceeded with. The proposal would erase the distinctive and rich contribution to Irish life of the Jewish community over many decades, including actual participation in the Irish War of Independence and the emerging State. The proposal is a denial of our history and will without any doubt be seen as antisemitic. It is overtly divisive and wrong. Our Irish Jewish community’s contribution to our country’s evolution in its many forms should always be cherished and generously acknowledged. This motion must be withdrawn and I ask all on Dublin City Council to seriously reflect on the implications of this move.

The ball had finally dropped in Ireland: Antisemitism was putting it on a path to a new Jewish Holocaust.

And hours ago, the Dublin City Council’s vote was withdrawn. Herzog Park remains. One day Ireland might be a nice holiday spot again—once it drops its genocide claim—and Herzog will be there to see you.

A foul mouth in Scotland

After a career on the public purse in politics, Hamza Yousaf carved dishonour for himself as Scotland’s second shortest-serving first minister. With a record of race baiting, he will leave politics in 2026.

As justice secretary in 2020 Yousaf notably accused the Scottish Parliament of “structural racism” saying, “At 99% of the meetings that I go to, I am the only non-white person in the room.” Just today he warned Gen Z Scotts that they were at risk of being overrun by “the right wing”, but that was obfuscation. For only yesterday he posted his future intent as an antisemitic grifter.

On social media platform X Yousaf filmed himself saying:

Keep talking about Palestine. A ceasefire doesn’t mean the killing has stopped. It just means the world has stopped looking.

He deliberately didn’t acknowledge Hamas’s breaches of the ceasefire agreement: its refusal to release Israel’s last two hostages, its murderous vendetta against Palestinian clans opposing it, its filmed public torture of dissidents, its return to a strategy of human shields to protect its military operations.

Rather, with peace in the air, Yousaf called for war.

That’s when what some have called “the greatest takedown on X” occured. A man the world knows through his story as the “Son of Hamas”, Mosab Hassan Yousef, once indeed on the road to seniority in Hamas then a Muslim, now a Christian, cut Yousaf’s feet away with this measured reply:

Yes! Keep screeching about Palestine until you’ve torn the West apart and burned it to f*cking ashes.

Keep bleating like the pathetic sheep you are—because without your precious victimhood, you’d actually have to do something useful for once in your miserable lives.

Fourteen centuries of seething hatred toward the Jewish people, and you’ve got the f*cking nerve to play the victim.

Your entire religion wouldn’t even exist without Judaism. Israel was there long before Rome, long before your backwards Mecca, and it’ll still be standing long after your kind are dust.

Keep talking, coward. Let’s hear it loud and clear: is it “human rights” you want, or the total erasure of every last Jew?

Why don’t you grow a f*cking spine and just admit it: you believe Israel is Muslim land and must be wiped off the map. Stop hiding behind Roman names and fake Western values you never believed in for a single second.

F*cking coward.

The future for Ireland, Scotland, Europe and the West

The Trump Peace Plan for Israel and Gaza is in motion. It has been approved by the UN.

Its first step required the release of all Israeli hostages dead and alive, followed by the disarmament and dissolution of Hamas militarily, socially and politically. Hamas is holding back on all.

An International Stabilization Force will take control of the Strip. It may or may not wait for Hamas to comply. This operation is currently headquartered in Southern Israel.

Ireland now needs to cool off the steam feeding its grifters. There has never been a finding of genocide in Gaza. There has never been a finding of famine. It must withdraw its support for South Africa in the ICJ.

Spain, once a racist country propped up by Nazi Germany, must do likewise with its rhetoric. Eurovision is a public love. It is not a bargaining chip for grifters.

Australia and Canada with Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and others, the US states of Michigan, New York and Illinois particularly must stamp out the grift of Antifa, BDS, CAIR, SJP, Muslim Brotherhood and Free-Palestine.

The Son of Hamas knows it. The world knows it too. We all remember the Holocaust.

If you’re a grifter leveraging antisemitism for wealth and fame, and you’re not prepared to say you are antisemitic, just go away or face the consequences of the public backlash that will catch up with you either way.

Take a cue from Guy Pearce who last week nuked his social media after apologising for antisemitism taken from the nineteenth century Czarist playbook.

Take a cue from John Cleese who also last week apologised for exponential Jew baiting claiming he didn’t understand that what he read on the internet might not be true.

The world needs a laugh. Go to Israel once the dust settles. John Cleese will be there.

He told the media that after cancelling his shows there he’ll now be performing for free. Always look on the bright side of life.

Update December 1 2025 Irish Standard Time – Dublin City Councillors “frothing at the mouth” during meeting

Dublin City Council met today split on the decision to continue the process to remove the Herzog name from Herzog Park.

According to posts on X from those who watched proceedings, council members showed “literal frothing at the mouth and Jew hatred”.

The Irish Times reported that the council: “also condemned ‘the highly inflammatory and politically motivated implication by the Taoiseach that any member supporting the motion to change the park’s name is in any way motivated by or promoting anti-Semitism.’”

Talk about the cowardice of those who foment hate but run as soon as exposed.

Times provided interesting context on the controversy too. It said that the call to remove Chaim Herzog’s name was the work of: “Irish Sport for Palestine, which initiated the campaign … and set up a petition signed by more than 5,600 people”. Times said that Irish Sport for Palestine was “surprised by the ‘sudden outcry and opposition given its campaign has been ongoing for almost two years’”.

What was most embarrassing for the council, Times said, was that had a vote gone ahead and succeeded, it didn’t have the legal authority to proceed due to a failure to comply with “ministerial regulations”.

Dublin Live, which ran live commentary on the meeting, recorded that the issue concluded as follows:

“Lord Mayor McAdam proposed that the both renaming agenda items be referred to the Commemorations and Naming Committee. With a tally of 35 in favour and 25 against this motion was passed. There was one abstention.”

It was not unanimous but the antisemitic shadow remains.

© 2025 Adam Parker.
Picture credit: Chaim Herzog’s birthplace plaque in Belfast, Ireland, removed in 2014 due to antisemitism. Source: Keresaspa via Wikipedia under CC BY 3.0 licence.