He addressed “the heavy price” paid during the conflict: “the loss of civilian life, the majority women and children, their displacement, loss of homes: the necessary institutions for life itself.”
Higgins has had no qualms about calling Israel’s war to remove Hamas from power in Gaza and free the hostages a “genocide,” but he could only muster calling the Nazi extermination attempt of the Jews “an attempted genocide.”
His statements spurred a protest by some members of the audience, with video footage showing at least one attendee being dragged away by security.
