Pe Maguire

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@mariaislam6451 4.6

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@AIandTechh87 COWORK

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@abrahamson_ed Take care Ed. I for one am on your side.

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@nrqa__ maybe even own 2026

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@DODubhda It is like a mental illness, and unites some crazy bedfellows. Brought on by the relentless one sided reporting on RTE on every news bulletin for 2 years like nothing else was happening in the world.

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@Alan__Shatter @dlLambo Daniel could do with looking at this https://t.co/P8TljmMlcB

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Recorded back in the 1960s, John Cleese (of Monty Python fame) made an excellent satirical commentary exposing the friend-enemy distinction as being at the heart of both far-left and rar-right extremism, inter alia, including its psychological appeal.

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@MOSSADil Ireland!

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@CarlowWeather it is bizarrely difficult to get a hold of this info

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@JamesMelville I agree, he is phenomenal

[Mar @_martremblay]

Catherine O’Hara was just the best

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

This year, Holocaust Memorial Day, on the 27 of January, will pass quietly in hundreds of British schools.

Not because the Holocaust is no longer relevant, and not because it is no longer important, but because too many educators now fear the reaction it might provoke, from parents in their communities and even from colleagues in their own staff rooms. According to new figures released by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the number of schools marking Holocaust Memorial Day has more than halved since October 7.

That fact alone should trouble us deeply. It is a stain on this country.

Holocaust Memorial Day exists to remember the six million Jewish men, women and children who were systematically murdered for no reason other than that they were born Jewish. It is not a political gesture. It is not a commentary on today’s conflicts. It is an act of human memory, and a moral one at that. When we begin to treat remembrance as something that must be justified, balanced or quietly avoided, we reveal how fragile our commitment to it has become.

My great-grandmother, Lily Ebert, survived Auschwitz. For decades of her life, she devoted herself to speaking to people all over the world about what she had witnessed and endured in what she called “hell on earth.” She answered their questions, listened to their fears, and tried to explain, with remarkable strength and gentleness, how ordinary societies slide into extraordinary evil. When she said “never forget,” she did not mean “unless it becomes uncomfortable.”

The Holocaust did not begin with gas chambers and death camps. It began with words. With lies. With the spread of conspiracy theories. With the slow normalisation of hatred. With the othering of Jewish people. With people deciding that certain lives mattered less than others. And, crucially, with silence, with decent people looking away because it felt easier than speaking up.

This is precisely why Holocaust education matters. It teaches young people where prejudice leads when left unchallenged, how democracies corrode from within, and what happens when lies become louder than truth. My great-grandmother always believed that education was the solution, that knowledge could be a shield against hatred.

But what happens when education itself becomes the problem?

What we are seeing now is that the sharp rise in antisemitism is not happening despite decades of Holocaust education, but in part because so much of it was never truly believed in to begin with. For too many academic institutions and teachers, Holocaust remembrance and education about anti-Jewish racism became a tick-box exercise, something done because it had to be done, not because it was understood, valued or defended. It was procedural, not principled. Now, when that education becomes inconvenient, when it carries social cost, when it risks controversy, when those teachers have an excuse and a reason not to teach it, it is quietly dropped. And that tells us everything.

At a time when antisemitism is at its highest level in decades, and becoming increasingly violent, we should be strengthening Holocaust education, not retreating from it.

Too many teachers are being forced into silence by pressure from their communities and from colleagues. They are being told they must “balance” Holocaust remembrance with unrelated political narratives, as though the murder of six million Jews requires qualification, as though Jewish suffering must now come with footnotes.

Soon, there will be no survivors left. No living witnesses. Only last week, we lost Harry Olmer, a Holocaust survivor who endured multiple Nazi forced-labour and concentration camps. He was a personal hero of mine. I travelled to Poland with him in 2023 and heard his story first-hand. Soon, there will be no one left who can say, simply, “I was there.”

When that moment comes, all that will remain is what we chose to teach.

If we allow Holocaust education to wither now, at precisely the moment antisemitism is rising, distortion is spreading, and Jewish students increasingly report feeling unsafe, then we are not just failing the past. We are betraying the future. Because history does not repeat itself. People do.

And when we abandon the responsibility to teach our children the past with truth and integrity, we abandon the future too. If we teach children that history can be set aside when it becomes uncomfortable, we teach them something far more dangerous than any lesson about the past, we teach them that moral clarity is negotiable.

That is a lesson no school should ever impart.

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

https://t.co/nuYIdG4PwS
Phew, maybe now our Ministers will speak out (or are they still on their winter hols?).

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@Alan__Shatter Excellent article, Alan, thanks. So depressing, but vital to call it all out. It's like Ireland has turned into a massive students' union, obsessed, tunnel vision, repeating the same stuck narrative on loop, unable/unwilling to see any other version of their 'truth'.

[Matthew Nouriel @MatthewNouriel]

Other people’s suffering is not your costume.

Iranians are risking their lives.
Venezuelans who lived under dictatorship don’t need Western activists rewriting their reality.

Solidarity listens.
Performance speaks over.

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@RMcGreevy1301 He achieved so much! Remarkable man.

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@RachelMoiselle @RachelMoiselle keep going if you feel you can. Your voice is very much needed. The bullying, the vitriol, the abuse, the threats, are all tactics. I support you, our Irish Jewish community, and the Jewish community worldwide in the face of anti-semitism.

[spiked @spikedonline]

The Islamo-left alliance is both sinister and absurd. Activists who think bearded men can be women march alongside bearded men who don’t want women to be seen in public. All they have in common is a loathing of Israel. It’s obscene, says Tim Black
https://t.co/W44WMk3j1p

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@paulmurphy_TD Fight for your constituents and the poor people of Ireland. That's what you got voted in for.

[Pe Maguire @oshsmum19]

@dlLambo Accept that your knowledge is limited, don't embarrass yourself any more. Stick with football.

[Holocaust Awareness Ireland @Holocaust_Irl]

Thank you @RachelMoiselle for this vital contribution.
That 70% of Irish people deny an antisemitism problem while nearly all Irish Jews report a surge, speaks volumes about the Irish Jewish community's sense of betrayal & how routinely our experience is dismissed.
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