Bernie Sanders talks Trump, Biden and inequality at Dublin event 

The former US presidential hopeful found himself interrupted by a protestor at the event at Trinity College Dublin

Bernie Sanders, pictured in 2020, during an election rally. File Picture: AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

A siren was wailing outside the Exam Hall in Trinity College as Bernie Sanders expounded his views on the world. There were a few whistles also, some shouting, as protestors attempted to breach the walls of old building. Inside, the packed hall barely noticed, such was the clarity and power of Sanders’ words. The senator from Vermont has charisma and talks buckets of sense.

The protest reflected the extent of upheaval the world is experiencing. At any other time, an event featuring Sanders in this country wouldn’t attract anything of the sort, bar, at the outer edges of possibility, some person or entity of an anti-abortion disposition. But Gaza has changed everything. To some who are passionate and committed about what is happening in Gaza, Sanders is just another cog in the US war machine, irrespective of how easily such an argument could be demolished.