Gardaí are investigating an incident in which two women confronted a man from Israel in a bar in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, during which one of the women spat at him.
Saying Zionists are not welcome in Ireland, and that they knew he was a member of the Israeli army, one of the women, Zena Ismail, can be seen in online footage spitting towards the man, Tamir Ohayon.
Footage recorded by Mr Ohayon and Ms Ismail and posted online shows Ms Ismail and Léna Seale approaching Mr Ohayon and verbally abusing him as he sits at a table with a colleague.
Ms Ismail is an Irish resident from Lebanon with a master’s degree from University College Dublin, who formerly worked…