Yanky Fachler
Israel and Ireland: Descent into the Antisemitic Cesspool
Summary
It has been seven months since Israel made the dramatic decision to close its embassy in Dublin. It has been seven months since Yanky Fachler, an Anglo-Israeli broadcaster and writer based in Ireland, told a Lockdown University audience that matters could hardly get any worse. In this talk, Yanky shows how wrong he was. Through the prism of an Irish Jewess making her first trip to Israel, and a London-based non-Jewish Irish journalist making a visit home to his parents in Ireland–not to mention a London mohel (circumciser) kept in solitary confinement in Dublin for 21 days–we get a taste of how much the situation has deteriorated further since the embassy closed.
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.