Ireland has probably
the most anti-Israel head of state in the western world.
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 repeatedly disgraced us.
Michael D. Higgins attends a
candlelit vigil
in Galway, 2004,
mourning the death of the Jew-killing terrorist
Yasser Arafat.
Michael D.,
as part of a crackpot anti-Israel European delegation,
28 August 2005,
calls for
the removal of
"all settlements, the more than 400,000 settlers"
from the West Bank.
His delegation claims, despite all the evidence, that
suicide bombings are
"executed by Palestinian non-state actors".
His delegation claims that the Israeli occupation is the cause of the conflict!
"The Delegation views the continuing occupation
and these policies as the root cause of the current deadlock"
Michael D. in the Dail,
27 Nov 2007,
objects to Hamas being labelled a terrorist organisation.
"Several questions immediately arise from the Minister of State's response. ... Does he agree that the credibility of the European Union is badly damaged by, in the first instance, the clearing house decision that added Hamas to a proscribed list, with no accountability to this Parliament or any parliament in Europe, and, following that, its failure to recognise the result of the election, which was acknowledged as free and fair by several international bodies, including the Carter Centre? "
Note that Michael D. believes Hamas were "elected" in 2006.
If so, perhaps he would like to tell us where their parliamentary opposition is today?
Michael D. Higgins in
May 2008
claims the life-saving
Israeli wall
is about "apartheid" rather than about (successfully) stopping Islamic terrorism.
See large size.
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. 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.
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.
When the Jew-killing butcher and dictator
Yasser Arafat,
the father of modern terrorism,
died in Nov 2004,
Michael D. Higgins
paid tribute to him.
Michael D. Higgins attends a
candlelit vigil
in Galway, 12 Nov 2004,
mourning the death of the Jew-killing terrorist
Yasser Arafat.
"THE LION OF RAMALLAH"! "the fallen scourge of Zionism"!
I prefer to think of him as a kind of
butcher of Jews.
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.
The anti-American, anti-Israel, Irish politician
Michael D. Higgins
(later the Irish President)
debated
American conservative radio host
Michael Graham
on
Newstalk radio, Ireland, 28 May 2010.
(Just before the Gaza flotilla clash.)
The debate was
mainly
on the topic of Israel,
a country Michael D. Higgins is incredibly hostile to.
The partial debate
Bizarrely, a
heavily edited version of the debate (i.e. only Michael D. speaks) suddenly went viral among lefties in Aug 2012,
two years later.
Lefties claimed Michael D. actually won the debate!
They did this using the simple trick of only presenting his words, and not the replies!
A comment here
points out:
"all my conversations would be awesome too if you didn't hear the replies of those I was arguing with".
One leftie
headlines it:
"Tea Party Boston Host Michael Graham Has No Words".
Um, yeah, that's because they were edited out.
The guy who made it go viral
absurdly describes it thus:
"A Tea Partier Decided To Pick A Fight With A Foreign President. It Didn't Go So Well."
The full debate
In reality, if you listen to the
full debate,
you will see
that Michael D. lost the debate.
It's well worth listening to.
Michael Graham destroys him.
It would be more accurate to say:
"A Whining Anti-American Foreigner Decided To Pick A Fight With An American Conservative. It Didn't Go So Well."
The full debate.
Don't listen to the fragments of Michael D. put up by lefties.
Listen to the full debate.
Length 20 minutes.
From here
and here.
If you listen to the full debate, it is clear that Michael D. lost.
Michael D.
for once came up against someone who didn't buy his left-wing bullshit.
And he didn't like it ...
Michael D.
notes there was an attempt on the life of the head of the UNRWA in Gaza, Irishman
John Ging,
without having the guts to tell us that it was Islamic jihadists that tried to kill him.
He leaves the listener thinking it was Israel.
Disgraceful.
Michael D. dodges and dodges again the question of why there are rocket attacks against Israel
from Gaza.
He attacks Michael Graham and describes American support for Israel as
"fundamentalist madness".
But he never answers Michael Graham's question.
He disputes that Israel has intercepted
boats carrying
arms from Iran to Hezbollah
and Hamas.
Michael D. is clearly not very well read about this issue.
He praises Obama and attacks
"this Tea Party ignorance".
How is this offensive man going to manage if he has to receive a Tea Party President?
He refuses to answer as to whether
Rachel Corrie was standing in front of a
weapons tunnel.
Unlike Irish people, Michael Graham isn't afraid of this Euro-leftist and his half-baked opinions.
Michael D. ends up calling him a "wanker".
Michael Graham
reacts to the heavily edited version of the debate (i.e. only Michael D. speaks) going viral among lefties in Aug 2012.
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.
...
Personally, I found Deputy Higgins' weak logic and unwillingness to acknowledge facts far more bothersome than the name calling."
Among all the tedious gushing about Michael D. by Irish and American lefties in Aug 2012, I got a nice link from Glenn Beck's site
The Blaze, 23 Aug 2012, who discovered my photos of Michael D. at the anti-American demo. Thanks guys!
If only such scepticism existed in the Irish media!
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"".
President Higgins, 10 Nov 2020,
pays tribute to
Saeb Erekat
of the Jew-killing terrorist group the PLO on his death.
President Higgins banged on endlessly about the 7 October war.
"Stop horror of history" says President Higgins
as Israel moves to ban UNRWA, Oct 2024.
He claims Gazans are "starving to death".
He claims Israel is engaged in "the use of starvation as a weapon of war".
The idea of the Irish President is to be a divisive figure making divisive political statements all year long
and claiming to speak for Ireland.
What is the point? Abolish the office of Irish President.
President Higgins,
International Women's Day, 2018,
promotes the Palestinian "struggle" for "rights".
Disgusting.
The Palestinians do not believe in human rights
and they certainly do not believe in women's rights.
And their "struggle" consists of endless terrorist war crimes against civilians.
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.
He wants to boycott Israel, but not Iran.
Michael D. with the Foreign Minister of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, May 2021.
Disgusting. Does our President have no morals?
From here.
Also here:
"President Higgins bidding farewell to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, at Áras an Uachtaráin today."
I don't want to be a member of whatever country Higgins is representing here.
Signing the condolences book for the President of Iran
President Raisi of Iran
died in May 2024.
Raisi was called the "Butcher of Tehran" for executing dissidents.
He funded Hamas and Hezbollah, and helped fund 7 October and many other atrocities.
When he died, Michael D. Higgins offered condolences on behalf of Ireland.
He even signed a fucking condolences book.
President Higgins
offers condolences following the death of President Raisi of Iran, May 2024.
President Higgins
signing the condolences book for President Raisi of Iran, May 2024.
Posted by the
Iranian Embassy.
Also here.
Letter of congratulations to Iran
President Higgins wrote a nauseating letter on 11 July 2024
congratulating
Masoud Pezeshkian
on his "election" as Iran's President.
(Iran has no free elections.)
He also repeated condolences for the death of President Raisi.
See
full size.
Posted on Twitter by the
Iranian Embassy.
See also their
website.
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!
The President's Rotten Statement On Nigeria, John McGuirk, 9 June 2022.
"What the President of Ireland says about killings in Nigeria will not, of course, matter a whit to the dead, or to their families. On the global scale, he is a fantastically unimportant man. But he is, for some reason, our chosen representative as a people. What he says is notable, and why he says it is worth exploring. If for no other reason than that we might hope, and pray, that the Irish electorate in time comes to learn from its error, and doesn't replace this fool with one of like mind."
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.
He is a religious loony:
"The problem is that in the West you do not
know what Mohammed means to me, as a
Muslim believer. He
should be before myself, before my family, my
children, before my wealth, before everything."
His alleged belief in "free speech" is a complete jumble:
"If
you are affecting my freedom by affecting my
belief then that is not freedom. True freedom is
when you say things that are true. There has to
be some kind of limit. If I don't receive respect
what worth is my freedom?"
He declares that it should be illegal in Ireland and the West to blaspheme against Islam.
And this is a man Michael D. thought suitable to bring to his inauguration!