President Higgins' speech at a Holocaust Memorial event in Dublin was 'insulting', according to the father of a former Hamas hostage.
Newstalk Breakfast “The whole idea is to remember the genocide of six million Jews - and others – and it’s not a time to be lecturing the Jews or Israel on anything political,” he said.
“I’ve been to Auschwitz and Birkenau last year for the March of the Living and no politician from Israel or anywhere else came on stage because it’s not a political issue.” “How can you have a remembrance day for the anniversary of the killing of Jews with no representative from the Jewish community, for Israel?” he said.
“The horrific, heinous acts that they committed on that day and recorded with their GoPro's - it’s available what they did exactly.
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