Irish people have contemporary, first-hand experience with colonialism and oppression from the British.
I think their support for Palestine is admirable and brave, but it’s also not surprising given their recent and not-so-recent history.
For all their clamoring about soviet oppression, I haven’t seen anything similar from the Eastern European governments.
And to our own shame, the governments of Greece and Cyprus have chosen to align more closely with Israel, despite a recent history of oppression by Turkey. Probably precisely because Turkey has gone the other way.
So it is not at all obvious that Ireland would be so fucking based. Credit where credit is due.
I’m quite impressed by the Irish government here. Standing up for crusty pro Palestine protestors by sending in their freaking ambassador.
Irish people have contemporary, first-hand experience with colonialism and oppression from the British. I think their support for Palestine is admirable and brave, but it’s also not surprising given their recent and not-so-recent history.
For all their clamoring about soviet oppression, I haven’t seen anything similar from the Eastern European governments.
And to our own shame, the governments of Greece and Cyprus have chosen to align more closely with Israel, despite a recent history of oppression by Turkey. Probably precisely because Turkey has gone the other way.
So it is not at all obvious that Ireland would be so fucking based. Credit where credit is due.