During the broadcast, the conservative commentator encouraged viewers to read a notorious 19th-century antisemitic text and made sweeping claims about Jewish involvement in historical atrocities ... “Jewish people were the ones who were trading with us.
Former Irish justice minister Alan Shatter harshly criticized the vote, charging that “Dublin City Council has now gone full on Nazi & a committee of the Council has determined it should erase Jewish/Irish history.
Now Ireland is erasing its Jewish history ... The Reith lectures are a new low in BBC history ... To eradicate the name of one of Ireland’s most influential Jewish sons is a moral outrage ... Jewish memory is no longer safe in Ireland.
The book profiles Brandeis, the first Jewish justice on the U.S ...Taft later wrote a letter to a Jewish journalist saying that Brandeis ... he grew up in Brooklyn, which was majority-Jewish when he was born.