If Sunday’s speech by Irish President Michael Higgins in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day is any indication, the world is still more comfortable honoring dead Jews than defending live ones.
In a grotesque distortion of the meaning of the day, which is meant to commemorate the six million Jews who were slaughtered at the hands of the Nazis, Higgins spewed disdain for Israel, the refuge and guardian of Jews and the insurance policy that the Holocaust will not repeat itself.
Higgins not only injected equivalency to Israel’s war in Gaza to free the hostages held by Hamas after it brutally attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, but focused on the humanitarian situation in Gaza instead of the more than 90 hostages still held captive by the brutal terrorist group.
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