‘Despicable person’: Sa’ar slams Irish president for using Holocaust Memorial Day speech to criticize Israel

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar slams Irish President Michael D. Higgins for using a speech on International Holocaust Remembrance Day to criticize Israel’s conduct in Gaza.

“Even on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Irish President Michael Higgins failed to rise above himself and resorted to cheap and despicable provocation,” says Sa’ar of the Irish leader’s comments at a Holocaust memorial ceremony appearing to compare it to the war in Gaza.

Sa’ar points out that the “largest murderous attack on Jews since the Holocaust came from the jihadist Gaza Strip.” Nevertheless, he says, Higgins “chose to echo Hamas’s false antisemitic propaganda,” resulting in some Jewish audience members leaving the event in protest and others being forcibly removed.

“What a despicable person,” the foreign minister adds. “What a twisted policy.”