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Commemorating The Holocaust In A Fraught Political Environment

A new survey shows Holocaust denial among young people in Ireland is rising — and it’s happ...

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02.00 27 Jan 2026


Commemorating The Holocaust In A Fraught Political Environment


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A new survey shows Holocaust denial among young people in Ireland is rising — and it’s happening at a moment of extreme political tension globally.   

 For many Jewish people, including those here in Ireland, there’s a growing fear of being forced into this binary: that remembering the Holocaust somehow means endorsing the actions of the Israeli state — or that criticising Israel erases Jewish trauma. 

 On Holocaust Commemoration Day, remembering history has become harder and more emotionally charged. But how has it come to this? 

To talk about that complexity, Tara Duggan is joined by Ria Czerniak-LeBov — a Jewish woman living in Ireland, the granddaughter of a Holocaust escapee, and a vocal critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza


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