Yanky Fachler
Ireland’s State-Sponsored Human Rights Abuses
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Summary
The flipside of Ireland’s rent-a-crowd, anti-Israel, and BDS activism is the country’s pride in its own human rights record. To quote a former chief commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, “Ireland has a strong international reputation as a champion of civil society.” In this talk, Yanky Fachler catalogues Ireland’s systematic state-sponsored human rights abuses against its most vulnerable citizens, calling into question the nation’s reputation as a champion of civil society.
Yanky Fachler
Yanky Fachler is chair of the Jewish Historical Society of Ireland. He has a regular slot, Word in Edgeways, on early-morning Irish radio. He delivered 250 Zoom lectures during COVID and is the author of several books, including Kaleidoscope: 100 Characters Who Helped Shape the Irish Jewish Community; Jewish Letchworth: A Microcosm of the Jewish Communal Experience; The Vow: Rebuilding the Fachler Tribe After the Holocaust; and 6 Officers, 2 Lions and 750 Mules.