Irish Chief Rabbi Yoni Wieder warned that Higgins' speech may "ring hollow for many Irish Jews" after he had "neglected even to acknowledge the scourge of contemporary antisemitism in Ireland."

Jerusalem Post

Jerusalem

Jerusalem District

Israel

Ireland's Jews doubt Higgins's Holocaust speech sincerity

Holocaust Awareness Ireland founder Oliver Sears says they have lost confidence in Mr Higgins

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Irish Mirror

Reach plc

Ireland

President Higgins urged to stay away from Holocaust memorial service

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Some members of the Jewish community in Ireland criticised the decision due to the President’s previous comments about Gaza.

The Journal

Ogden Newspapers

Organisers of Holocaust memorial defend decision to invite President Higgins to deliver keynote speech

Jewish community in Ireland expresses outrage over President Michael Higgins, who criticized Israel's counterterrorism operation in Gaza, being chosen as keynote speaker at International Holocaust Remembrance Day event.

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Irish President to speak at Holocaust memorial ceremony, Jewish community outraged

As Ireland’s octogenarian President, Michael D Higgins, enters the last few months of his final term in office, a man who was always outspoken in his views seems to have dropped any presidential filter. Higgins spent much of last year on what seemed like a one-man mission against Israel, making a series of wild and frequently incorrect statements about the Jewish

Spectator UK

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Greater London

England

United Kingdom

Ireland’s President has gone completely rogue

Eighty years after the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, some 40 survivors, spread across 15 countries and four continents, spoke to the AFP between November and January, to remember their lives and their transmission effort as an antidote to oblivion. These survivors were 15 years, 4 years, 7 months. Some were even born in concentration and extermination camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Ravens…

Ochenta años después de la liberación del campo de exterminio nazi de Auschwitz-Birkenau, unos 40 supervivientes, repartidos por 15 países y cuatro continentes, hablaron con la AFP entre noviembre y enero, para recordar sus vidas y su esfuerzo de transmisión como antídoto al olvido.   Estos supervivientes tenían 15 años, 4 años, siete meses. Algunos incluso nacieron en los campos de concentración y exterminio: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, …

Los últimos testigos del Holocausto hablan contra el olvido, 80 años después

The Washington Hispanic

Johnny Yataco

Washington

District of Columbia

United States

The last witnesses of the Holocaust speak against oblivion, 80 years later

Senior representatives from the Jewish community have ‘lost confidence’ in President Michael D Higgins, and have asked him to ‘do the dignified thing’ and not attend this year’s Holocaust Memorial event in Dublin. They have also accused him of ‘lecturing’ attendees last year on Gaza. President Higgins, who has been repeatedly criticised for his interventions on the conflict in the Middle East, is due to address the gathering in the Mansion House…

Extra.ie

President Higgins urged not to attend Holocaust event despite invite

The Jewish Representative Council of Ireland was not happy with his political remarks at Holocaust Memorial Day last year.

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'He’s lost our confidence' - Higgins asked not to attend Holocaust event

Athens, Greece Eighty years after the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, some 40 survivors, spread across 15 countries and four continents, spoke to the AFP between November and January, to remember their lives and their transmission effort as an antidote to oblivion. These survivors were 15 years, 4 years, 7 months. Some were even born in concentration and extermination camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Buc…

Atenas, Grecia Ochenta años después de la liberación del campo de exterminio nazi de Auschwitz-Birkenau, unos 40 supervivientes, repartidos por 15 países y cuatro continentes, hablaron con la AFP entre noviembre y enero, para recordar sus vidas y su esfuerzo de transmisión como antídoto al olvido. Estos supervivientes tenían 15 años, 4 años, siete meses. Algunos incluso nacieron en los campos de concentración y exterminio: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Be…

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