Irish Leprechaun-in-Chief Michael “Henry” Higgins has disgraced himself, firstly by even having the gumption to speak at a Holocaust Memorial Day event, and then using it as an excuse to bash Israel – despite being asked to not politicize the event.
Irish Jews stood in protest on Sunday as the country’s president used his speech at an International Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony to rail against Israel’s war with Hamas, decrying the “horrific loss of life” in Gaza
At least one demonstrator was forcibly removed for turning her back on Irish President Michael D. Higgins and others walked out. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar condemned Higgins’s “despicable provocation.”
Higgins, who had been asked by the Irish Jewish community not to politicize the event that marks the murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany, said that the ceasefire and hostage release deal that came into effect last week has been welcomed by “those in Israel who mourn their loved ones, those who have been waiting for the release of the hostages,” as well as the “thousands searching for relatives in the rubble” of Gaza.
Appearing to draw a line between the murder of Jews during the Holocaust and the war in Gaza, which was sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror assault in southern Israel, Higgins said: “When wars and conflicts become accepted or presented as seemingly unending, humanity is a loser.”
“War is not the natural condition of humanity. Cooperation is.”
He added that world leaders should be made “acutely aware” of the “complicit actions of silence or the averted gaze of those who, by their indifference, allowed the Holocaust to be planned, prepared and to occur.”
How Jews around the world feel after learning how @PresidentIRL Michael Higgins used his #HolocaustRemembranceDay speech to bash #Israel pic.twitter.com/hGSDW3WR2I
— 🎗️ David Lange (@Israellycool) January 27, 2025
Those who asked him to not politicize the event included Tomi Reichental, Ireland’s oldest Holocaust survivor.
The father-of-three, who was nine years old when he was sent to the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany along with his mother, brother, grandmother and cousin, said he has a good relationship with Mr Higgins.
‘I know the President very well. We are on first-name terms. I call him Michael and he calls me Tomas, and he always puts his arm around me.’
But he urged the President not to politicise today’s landmark event, adding: ‘He shouldn’t mention in his speech Israel or Hamas.’
‘It should be strictly about the Holocaust and about the small minority of Jewish people who are living here, that they should be protected, anti-Semitism should be condemned. That should be the subject of the President’s [speech] and not about international politics. It’s not his job.
So much for having a ‘good relationship’ with Higgins. He might out his arm around you, but only to sink the knife in to your back.
And only after getting his photo op with you:
Among the protesters who were restrained and pushed outside aggressively by a security guard were the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, with one being a pregnant woman.
Just another day in Ireland, fast becoming one of the most antisemitic cesspools on the planet.
Not that this will save them.
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