A report on anti-Semitism in Ireland, released last week by the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, had some deeply distressing findings: 143 incidents were recorded over a six-month period ending in January 2026.
If this were the UK, with 120 times more Jews, that would represent 17,000 incidents.
The actual figure from the UK for the whole of 2025, according to the Community Security Trust, which uses professional monitoring, was 3,700 incidents.
However, in Ireland, there is no Government mechanism or NGO to monitor anti-Semitism. The community had to compile the report itself, despite raising the issue of a parabolic rise in anti-Semitism, privately and publicly, with the Government for more than two years. In my view, the report only captures a fraction of the truth.
Most Jews are afraid to bring attention to themselves (only 24 per cent of incidents were reported to An An Garda Síochána). Since the current atmosphere dismisses or minimises the experiences of Jews, confidence to report an
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