Jews in Eire reported over 100 antisemitic incidents by means of a communal reporting system inside six months after it launched, based on a brand new report.
The findings revealed early Monday by the Jewish Consultant Council of Eire represent the primary try and doc antisemitic incidents in Eire.
Irish Jews, a small group of about 2,200, reported 143 incidents between July 2025 and January 2026. These have been dominated by verbal abuse, vandalism, threats, exclusion or discrimination and direct digital hate messages. Bodily assault was much less frequent, with solely three situations reported.
All incidents have been self-reported to the JRCI, which can not independently examine or adjudicate them. Eire doesn’t have an official state mechanism for recording antisemitic incidents, the group stated. And whereas the police report hate crimes based mostly on nationality, ethnicity or faith, they don’t isolate crimes motivated by antisemitism.
The JRCI stated that 30% of incidents have been triggered by cues of Jewish identification or Israeli origin, akin to a Jewish image, an accent or talking Hebrew in public. Such patterns typically crossed the boundaries of hate pushed by nationality, ethnicity and faith.
“These dynamics can’t be adequately addressed by means of generalized anti-racism frameworks alone,” JRCI chair Maurice Cohen stated in an announcement. “Antisemitism presents distinct traits requiring focused coverage responses.”
Cohen referred to as for “a devoted, standalone nationwide plan to fight antisemitism in Eire.”
Of the reported incidents, 25 included “Holocaust distortion” or antisemitic conspiracy theories. These findings add to a Claims Convention survey in January, which stated that 9% of Irish adults believed the Holocaust was a fable, whereas one other 17% believed the variety of Jews killed had been tremendously exaggerated. Half of Irish adults didn’t know that 6 million Jews have been killed within the Holocaust.
On the identical time, a November 2025 survey by the European Fee surfaced broad recognition of antisemitism in Eire. 41% of respondents stated that antisemitism was an issue within the nation and 47% stated it had elevated over the previous 5 years.
At a ceremony for Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day in January, Eire’s taoiseach (or prime minister) Micheál Martin stated, “I’m acutely aware that our Jewish group right here in Eire is experiencing a rising degree of antisemitism. I do know that components of our public discourse has coarsened.”
Martin has strenuously criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza, saying on the United Nations final 12 months that Israel dedicated genocide and demonstrated “an abandonment of all norms, all worldwide guidelines and regulation.” Catherine Connolly, a socialist politician who has confronted backlash for saying Hamas is “a part of the material of the Palestinian individuals,” was elected as Eire’s president in October.
Eire has traditionally supported the Palestinians, a stance typically linked to the nation’s personal historical past of British imperial rule, and formally acknowledged a Palestinian state in 2024.
In Martin’s Holocaust commemoration speech, he additionally condemned the newest occasion to inflame the Irish Jewish group. Late final 12 months, a proposal to rename Herzog Park in Dublin — named for Chaim Herzog, the son of the primary Irish chief rabbi who grew to become Israel’s sixth president in 1983 — was decried by Irish Jews who stated it might erase Irish Jewish historical past. The proposal was later tabled.
Martin, who additionally denounced the proposal when it was lively, stated the Jewish group “has each proper to be deeply involved and to specific that concern.”
Gideon Taylor, president of the World Jewish Restitution Group and an Irish Jew who grew up in Dublin, stated the JRCI report confirmed an image of antisemitic incidents that have been separate from “a debate in regards to the insurance policies of Israel or a debate in regards to the Palestinian state.”
“When you will have discontinuation of service as a result of someone is heard talking Hebrew, or has a Jewish-identifying image on them, that’s not a few political place on the spectrum in direction of Israel,” stated Taylor. “That’s one thing that crosses into antisemitism.”
Eire’s chief rabbi Yoni Wieder stated the report mirrored experiences he already heard from his congregants.
“The report doesn’t declare that antisemitism has turn into a every day actuality for all Jewish individuals in Eire — it has not,” stated Wieder. “What it does present is that antisemitism surfaces typically sufficient, and in abnormal sufficient settings, that it can’t be dismissed as uncommon or confined to the margins of society. Which means that for a lot of, Jewish belonging in Eire feels extra fragile than it ought to.”
