Given our colonial history, we have a duty to stand with the Palestinians
We may wonder if TDs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace would have found incriminating evidence on a US military plane in Shannon, even if they’d been invited in and offered a seat. But because we’re Irish, many of us agree with everything Wallace said about the US-backed Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
You can see our knee-jerk support for the Palestinians as a “dark seed in the Irish anti-colonial mindset”, as Jason Walsh, of the Christian Science Monitor, said. I agree that a self-serving comparison, of Nationalists with Palestinians and Unionists with Israelis, is often made in the North.
