Mike Huckabee Can Shove His Opinion Up His Hole - Un-lubed!
The Irish and The Palestinians are Practically Family
Dáil Éireann, the Irish parliament, is about the pass a bill that will criminalise importing goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The value of imported goods is small - about €685,000 between 2020 and 2025, but the act is immeasurable. Ireland is a small country with no empire, no delusions of superpower status, just a cellular level memory of colonisation and the courage to do the right thing. Still partitioned, the experience of occupation is very real.
That is more dangerous than tanks.
Enter Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, southern evangelical extremist, former Fox News presenter, and apologist for IDF baby-killers demanded Ireland apologise to Israel and sneered, "Did the Irish fall into a vat of Guinness & propose something so stupid that it would be attributed to act of diplomatic intoxication?” You don't need me to tell you where he can insert that demand, un-lubed.
On hearing that Trump had picked Huckabee for the Tel Aviv gig, former U.S. diplomat Luis Moreno recalled, “I unfortunately was exposed to him during his visits to Israel back in the day. Full blown fanatic of the End of Times, Apocalypse, Israel’s destruction, etc. A true and utter nut case. Couldn’t be a more dangerous selection.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) slammed the idea of Huckabee in this role as “a disaster of Biblical proportions” for his ultra–Christian Zionist agenda when he was the governor of Arkansas.
Huckabee has refused to acknowledge Palestinians’ right to exist. His unwavering supporter of the Israel illegal occupation, no matter the atrocities he IDF have carry out, "There is no such thing as a West Bank. It's Judea and Samaria. There's no such thing as a settlement. They're communities. They're neighborhoods. They're cities. There's no such thing as an occupation. The only occupiers were the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Turks, the Brits, the Romans. They were occupiers. The Jews are the occupants."
Huckabee is also a crook. Arkansas’s State Ethics Commission nailed him for five major violations. This slippery fucker used campaign funds for a “gospel fest” and quietly accepted (but didn’t declare) nearly $200,000 in undisclosed financial gifts.
Huckabee's criticism of Ireland standing with their Palestinian brothers and sisters isn't just an insult—it’s a mask-off moment. A glimpse of the contempt the American political class holds for any nation that dares act on principle.
This wasn’t a diplomatic disagreement. It was a public scolding of a sovereign state for standing on the side of international law by a state that has facilitated the murderous ethnic cleansing of an oppressed people and supported the oppressor, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the Intenational Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The same ICC that the U.S. once backed—when it was issuing warrants for African warlords and Balkan generals. But now? The empire calls the court “illegitimate” the moment it turns its gaze toward Tel Aviv or Washington.
Because the problem isn’t the law. The problem is who the law is applied to.
America, once the self-declared beacon of democracy, is now actively shielding a government accused of massacring civilians, targeting aid convoys, and starving a population. That’s not support. That’s complicity. And it’s not just about Gaza—it’s about the gutting of principle itself.
What happened to the America that stood against the Nazis? That stormed the beaches of Normandy and put war criminals on trial? If Trump and his cronies were around then, they’d have piped the gas to Auschwitz.
You don't believe me? Look at where we are. Gaza is in ruins. Children are being pulled from the rubble. Hospitals bombed. Famine weaponised and the starving fired on in food queues. The U.S. continues to ship weapons and block ceasefires. Blood on their hands.
And when Ireland says, "We're not going to support murderers" they get mocked. Patronised. Threatened.
Because nothing terrifies the powerful more than a principled example.
Ireland’s position threatens the great lie that Western foreign policy is about morality. It exposes the hypocrisy: that war crimes are only crimes when our enemies commit them. That international law is a weapon to be used, not a rule to be followed.
So here’s to Ireland. Small, stubborn, sober in all the ways that matter. They remember what occupation feels like. What it means to be brutalised, erased, starved, and called the problem for resisting it.
Maybe that’s why they’re not falling for the lies. Maybe that’s why they still believe that law should apply to everyone—not just the losers of war, but its winners too.
And maybe that belief is contagious.