Why do the Irish have a soft spot for Palestinians?

Palestinians and the Irish share common threads of dispossession and hunger linked to the experience of being colonised and highlighted by the Irish Prime Minister's speech during the White House Saint Patrick’s Day ceremony. The Irish Famine, exacerbated by British policies, echoes the imminent famine in Gaza that many UN agencies say may occur because israel is deliberately starving the population.

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