Ireland: Protesters walk out of Michael D Higgins's speech at Holocaust Memorial Day event

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Lior Tibet, who is a PhD student in UCD and teaches the Holocaust as part of courses on Nazi Germany and modern European History, was forced out of the event by security personnel while other protesters who turned their backs during the President’s speech were asked to leave.

Ms Tibet, who has been living in Ireland for seven years, said she had not intended to turn her back on the President during his speech and only did so after he mentioned Gaza.

Ms Tibet said: “The beginning of the speech was lovely. That’s why we didn’t get up at that point. We are all great supporters of human rights. We have problems with what Israel is doing.” She told The Irish Times that she and four others stood up and turned their back on the President. She was asked by a woman to leave. “I asked her: ‘How can you take a Jewish person out of this commemoration event? I didn’t do anything wrong.’ This was the only way I could protest about it.”

She contrasted her treatment with pro-Palestinian protesters who waved Hamas flags on the streets of Dublin on Saturday. “I never had a problem with Irish people or the Irish Government. We have two young kids here. I am teaching at UCD as well, but the last 15 months have been unbearable here. We feel like we are talking to the walls when we talk about anti-Semitism. It is really disheartening to us to see no one gives us a voice.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/01/26/protesters-walk-out-of-higgins-speech-at-holocaust-memorial-day-event/

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1. Removing Jews from a Holocaust remeberence event

Wow