Jonny Gould’s Jewish State
179: Rachel Moiselle: the huge price of defending Israel and the Jewish people in Ireland
Published: 11 March 2025 at 20:30 Europe/London
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Episode notes
“I can’t align with Palestinian protests and they say I’m less Irish because of it”.
Rachel Moiselle is a young woman born and bred in Dublin.
She’s a PhD student who calls herself a city girl. She loves the place she grew up in - but the feeling among her people isn’t much reciprocated
Brought up as a Roman Catholic, her father’s family were Jewish - and in standing up for Ireland’s community of just 3,000 or so
since October 7th, Rachel’s found out the hard way about antisemitism, she’s been shunned, cancelled and lost friends.
But she wouldn’t change a thing - oh except one, that is, she’s fully converting to Judaism to honour Halacha in full, she says.
If you’re on X, you’ll have see how uncompromising and prolific she’s been in challenging antisemitism - and knows full well that if she’d been a so-called good Jew and backed the Palestinians, she’d have been put on a pedestal by the haters. Become a poster girl for much of what Ireland seems to stand for.
But she won’t.
Rachel gives her first ever interview to Jonny Gould about the life she's been thrust into since October 7th.
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