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January 28, 2025

What the Irish President Should Have Said about His Country and the Shoah

Ireland celebrates Holocaust inversion day.

At his country’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony last year, Ireland’s president, Michael Higgins, used the occasion to speak about the suffering in Gaza, and has since then directed so many untrue and histrionic accusations at Israel that the country decided to shutter its embassy in Dublin. Irish Jews, including the chief rabbi and other leaders, urged Higgins not to speak at this year’s commemoration, but he ignored them. Besides much meaningless claptrap about the evils of generic hatred and hopes for peace on earth, he uttered the following:

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January 28, 2025

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