UCD lecturer who was forcibly evicted from event says: ‘We feel like we are talking to the walls when we talk about anti-Semitism’
President Michael D Higgins delivers a speech at Holocaust Memorial Day event causing a small number of protesters to walk out
Earlier, he had met and posed for photographs with two of Ireland’s remaining Holocaust survivors, Tomi Reichental and Suzi Diamond, along with a number of relatives of those who died in Nazi concentration camps. Mr Higgins said he hoped that the Israeli families of those who had been bereaved as a result of the October 7th events, and those waiting for release of hostages and those who were killed in “the rubble of Gaza”, would “welcome the long-overdue ceasefire”. As he spoke those words, a number of people walked out and others turned their back on the President.
Lior Tibet said she was forcibly removed during President Michael D Higgins' speech after turning her back on the president at the National Holocaust Memorial Day event in the Mansion House. 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.
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