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Anti-Israel
Michael D. Higgins v. Michael Graham
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Anti-American
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The President, Michael D. Higgins, was for decades the leader of anti-Israel politics in the Irish parliament. He mourned the death of Yasser Arafat. He objected to Hamas being labelled terrorists. He signed up to share a platform with Hezbollah. He called for Irish people to boycott Israeli goods.
As President, since 2011, he has largely shut up about Israel, which is wonderful. He still finds time as President to indulge his love for reactionary right-wing Islam, though.
Michael D. Higgins and
David Norris
at an IPSC rally
in 2009.
No they don't mean free Gaza from sharia.
From IPSC.
Michael D. attacks Israel in the Dail,
1 June 2010,
after the
"Free Gaza" flotilla clash.
He claims the blockade of Gaza is about
"collective punishment"
and seeking
"to punish an entire population"
rather than about protecting innocent life.
If the government of Gaza stopped terror attacks and just left Israel alone, the blockade would end immediately.
He supports the flotilla:
"I would like to hear ... that there will be an end to the attempts to try to blacken the people involved in these activities by the suggestion that they are somehow supportive of terrorist action."
He fails to even discuss, let alone refute,
the flotilla's links to terror.
He naively claims there is
"division within Hamas between the political wing and those in favour of military action."
He does not present any evidence of this "division".
Michael D. at an anti-Israel demo, Galway,
May 2007.
He stands beside a
fake quote
which is falsely alleged to be from
David Ben-Gurion.
See also here.
See large size.
Michael D. Higgins signs a
2004 petition
calling for a boycott of the lone democracy of Israel.
Michael D. and the other signatories
(who include members of the terrorist group SF-IRA)
call for the ethnic cleansing of the 550,000 Jews in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
They absurdly believe this will bring "peace".
They also want a boycott of Israel:
"The undersigned also urge all citizens of Ireland to support a boycott of all Israeli goods and services".
Michael D. Higgins signed
this petition
calling for a
boycott of the democracy of Israel in
Jan 2009.
Of course, he has signed similar petitions calling for a boycott of the non-democracies of
China, Russia, Cuba,
the Palestinian Authority, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan and Syria.
I'm sure he has.
Show me where he has signed such petitions here.
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomes Higgins as President, 10 Nov 2011.
From here.
Michael D. was signed up to
share a platform with Hezbollah
at this disgusting anti-Israel event in Oct 2007.
Alan Shatter
queried this in the Dail, but Michael D. did not explain or back down.
In the end, it was all academic. The
Hezbollah man was refused a visa on security grounds.
So technically none of the Irish useful idiots shared a platform with Hezbollah.
Hezbollah terrorist flag openly displayed at anti-Israel march, Dublin, Apr 2008.
From here.
Michael D. Higgins spoke at this march.
Michael D. pays a sick tribute to the father of modern terrorism
on his death in Nov 2004.
He talks about
"his achievement in organising a demoralised Palestinian people"
without mentioning that this was all based on terrorism against Jewish civilians.
The failure of the peace process is ludicrously blamed on Bush and Sharon,
rather than on Arafat launching the Intifada!
Higgins repeats the absurd propaganda that "disparate militant groups"
were carrying out the terror attacks that Arafat was carrying out.
We are meant to care about the poor old butcher
"under house arrest",
rather than about the innocent women and children he killed.
And "his alleged autocratic style of leadership"
is as close as Higgins gets to referring to
the fact that
Arafat was an
unelected dictator, who could have set up a democracy with
a parliamentary opposition
and a free press, but chose not to.
From Labour Party site.
Michael D. for once came up against someone who didn't buy his left-wing bullshit. And he didn't like it ...
More from Michael Graham.
Back in 2010,
Michael Graham responded by saying:
"Now, regular listeners to the show know I get called far worse than "wanker" on a regular basis. So I barely noticed it.
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Personally, I found Deputy Higgins' weak logic and unwillingness to acknowledge facts far more bothersome than the name calling."
Jack Meehan, the Bush-era President of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, also uses my site as a source. He is highly unimpressed with Michael D.'s speech (and here). He is angry at Michael D. for "the reprehensible protests which were specifically designed to ridicule the valiant men and women of our American military who were passing through Shannon Airport. He has the unmitigated nerve to call somebody else "a wanker"".
However, he did find occasions to indulge his love for reactionary right-wing Islam.
President Michael D. Higgins in July 2013
honours
Umar Al-Qadri,
who
calls Hamas "my brothers and sisters"
and says "Hamas loves peace."
Michael D. in Oct 2018
meets Shawan Jabarin
of the Palestinian group Al-Haq.
Jabarin was jailed for PFLP terrorism
and Israel claims he is still linked to the PFLP.
It's just President Higgins in Sept 2022,
standing with an antisemite, Holocaust denier, unelected dictator, and blood-soaked terrorist killer of Jews.
Because President Higgins has, you know, well thought out morals and stuff.
President Higgins issues a statement on Israel
during the Hamas-Israel war, 2 Nov 2023,
calling for a ceasefire.
Even though that is not his job.
I reply with:
"Hamas should unconditionally surrender and release the hostages."
The President's Twitter manager hides my reply.
Hideous statement by President Higgins, 7 June 2022, after the
Owo church massacre in Nigeria, in which 40 Christians were murdered at Mass by Muslims.
Higgins somehow blames ... climate change!
A stunning reply to President Higgins from the
Catholic Diocese of Ondo
in Nigeria.
See full size
and p.2.
They understand why they are being massacred in church.
The idiot socialist in Ireland does not understand.
for a
DIT student magazine
in 2006.
