Hamas strike on Israel - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

As far as I'm aware, no-one was "dragged out".
I think it's fair enough to highlight the avoidance of another Holocaust at a Holocaust memorial service.

"Never again".

Absolutely agree with you there.

Some can decide that 47,000 known dead, tens of thousands still under the rubble, mass deportations and forced starvation fits the definition of Genocide.

Others can deny it. Doesn't make it so.

America has freedom of religion, so no, there are no rules as to what religion someone can practice. It's a meritocracy. Disproportionate means nothing as there aren't quotas. But, only an obsessively anti-Jewish person like yourself would assume otherwise.

As you can see, Biden's administration (I note you mention a bunch of politicians not in the cabinet who aren't involved with foreign policy at all, but unfortunately for you they're Jewish), will likely turn out better for Gaza than Convict President Trump's. He's already said he wants to clean out Gaza.

For the lulz, 7 out of 9 SCOTUS justices are Catholic. That's far more than the percentage of Catholics in the US. Doesn't matter, but it obviously has some impact on their decisions (cf. Alito's Dobbs decision.)

I saw a few Jewish groups asking him not to speak.

Is that a serious question about how he politicised it?
He used a holocaust memorial as an opportunity to have a go at Israel. Can you really not see how insensitive and obnoxious that is?

You don’t think the president of this country should you know be doing something about helping the population of this country after a hurricane instead of using a holocaust remembrance event of all things to have a go at his favourite cause far away

Half the country? really or is that just hyperbole?

Oh that's the way the world works is it?

I can say the same about you, why are you wasting your time on boards talking about something far away you constantly tell us that you don't give a fiddlers about (except to constantly tell everyone to "stop talking about this, that other thing is more faaaar more important, chase that and let Israel continue with it war crimes in peace"). There was a hurricane goddamit.

Unless of course you are just rabbiting on boards on your break from being out on the front line fixing the phone lines, then fair enough we all have to let off steam, and I thank you for your service.

Or they could just remember the Holocaust and not mention anything else apart from it.

It was just another time when Higgins couldn't resist the urge to grandstand about something, he just can't help himself. is the problem , just like him slobbering over Fidel Castro when he died, he lets his personal biases and interests get in the way of doing the boring job of being the state representative.

Did you read what he said? Here is the transcript.

https://president.ie/en/media-library/speeches/speech-at-national-holocaust-memorial-day-commemoration

This is the most "political" aspect of the speech. Is this "having a go"?

The grief inflicted on families by the horrific acts of October 7th, and the response to it, is unimaginable – the loss of civilian life, the majority women and children, their displacement, loss of homes, the necessary institutions for life itself. How can the world continue to look at the empty bowls of the starving?

The current agreement must end the killing, but, as a matter of urgency, deliver the massive scale-up in humanitarian aid which is urgently needed to save more lives. It is important that all remaining hostages are released and that all phases of the agreement are fully implemented.

It is to be hoped that the agreement will not only bring an end to the horrific loss of life and destruction which has taken place, but that it will also mark the beginning of meaningful discussions, and that the sustained diplomatic initiative which has been missing from the international community, with tragic consequences, will commence, may bring a meaningful peace and security to Israel, Palestine and the greater region, a peace that will address the root causes of the conflict as well as its aftermath, and be premised on the upholding of human rights.

When wars and conflicts become accepted or presented as seemingly unending, humanity is the loser. War is not the natural condition of humanity, cooperation is. We must recover and assert this principle at every level – nationally, regionally and internationally.

We must never lack the courage to challenge hatred and persecution in whatever forms they are sought to be manifested by promoting a world that is free from persecutions based on difference, such as faith or ethnicity, by embracing diversity, by working for equality, peace and justice, thus making possible a world that is free, too, from so many of the sources of war and conflict based on a distorted reflection of the ‘Other

The problem with what you've said is that you've made it up. Nothing of what he said was politicising and/or 'having a go'.

I would contend that an event in memory of those that were so inhumanely treated is precisely the time to remind those same people that what they have done and continue to do is wrong.

We should respect America and China but I think probably the term "kissing their arse" riles people up the wrong way. If we kissed America's arse we would joined them in their ludicrous wars in the Middle East. As much as possible we should try to be neutral and emphasise International law, which benefits us much more in the long run as a small country.

Supporting countries just for economic benefit would have lead us down to supporting some very despicable acts in the past such as apartheid in South Africa.

You have a problem with Michael D. talking about antisemitism at an event that commemorated the holocaust, i.e. the most extreme manifestation of antismeitism - why?

His transcript is linked a few posts up. I don't see him mention the embassy, or put any underhanded digs in on Israel. Can you quote what you think he said that is so offensive?

The compassion he has for all people and his wish to see human rights upheld was the tennet of the speech, and it is extremely respectful. That belief was so obviously missing in world leaders back in the 1930's / 1940s.

I'm sure the many many Jewish people, and those of other faiths and factions effected by holocaust, would agree with his words.

Why the dishonesty? Not that it isn't par for the course. The woman in question is not from Dublin. She is Israeli. Neither is she young (Although that might be relative) at 37. It was simply self-serving publicity seeking and any future visa or naturalisation application should be assessed in light if her fundamental problems with Irish people and their State.

Self anointed "Chosen people" status of a foreigner does not manifest as actual authority over the Irish State. There are no Ubermenschen here. Everyone is equal.

BTW I'm all for kissing China, BRICS countries arse aswell if it's good for our economy and the prosperity of this country, but generally our country has been more economically benefited by America therefore we need to kiss their arse more.

Perhaps you might be in favour of removing any public funding for any future holocaust remembrances and instead diverting that funding towards having memorial days for the (actually greater in number) of Chinese civilians murdered by invading forces, often in organised mass killing events, during the 30's and 40's. Perhaps even a call for those events to be given precedence over others in history textbooks?

Or is your Chinese money argument suddenly not important any more?

"A genocide memorial isn't the time to talk about genocide"

The Israel supporters here have lost the plot