Dublin’s National Concert Hall canceled for a second time a fundraising event for a civilian rescue service in Israel, the head of the Magen David Ireland association said on Sunday.
“The event’s cancellation by the NCH can be properly described as an act of antisemitic censorship,” MDA Ireland head Alan Shatter, a former minister of justice, wrote on X. “What behind-the-scenes lobbying or pressure, if any, impacted the decision is unknown.”

The concert hall’s management did not reply in time for publication to a query seeking its reaction to Shatter’s allegation. The concert was booked in November as a venue for the show, which would have featured a narrator’s reading of accounts of survivors and victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacres in Israel, Shatter said. Management then canceled, but reversed its cancellation, only to cancel again with “each cancellation having a spurious basis,” Shatter wrote.

Magen David Adom is an emergency medical intervention organization in Israel, with thousands of Jewish, Muslim and Christian volunteers. Charities in countries around the world collect money for the group by soliciting donors and organizing benefits.