{"id":395145,"date":"2026-04-12T19:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395145\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:13:10","slug":"former-minister-alan-shatter-hits-out-at-antisemitism-after-national-concert-hall-cancels-october-7-play-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395145\/","title":{"rendered":"Former minister Alan Shatter hits out at \u2018antisemitism\u2019 after National Concert Hall cancels October 7 play for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Fine Gael justice minister Alan Shatter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776021190_690_de58fa18-5149-4fd9-b5b3-f41fdb620d53.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former Fine Gael justice minister Alan Shatter<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Former justice minister Alan Shatter has hit out after the National Concert Hall (NCH) cancelled a private fundraising event for an Israeli ambulance service that was set to take place next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A \u201cstaged reading\u201d of a play about the October 7 massacre was scheduled to take place at the NCH\u2019s John Field Room on May 11 as part of the event, with Mr Shatter, who was due to host the event, describing the decision as \u201cshocking\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Fine Gael justice minister Alan Shatter Former justice minister Alan Shatter has hit out after the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[97,61,60,3410,43,4268,31620],"class_list":{"0":"post-395145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-gaza","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-palestine","14":"tag-robin-schiller"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}