Ireland is part of the EU, part of the Eurozone, was considered white by everyone outside the anglosphere, lets the US use its airports for military purposes. The economy is controlled by US tech firms. It was integrated into the western imperialism system a longtime ago and therefore ideologically it represents that.

I genuinely cannot think of one tangible thing the Irish government has done for Palestine. Not one action that has cost them anything, that has applied real pressure or has matched the scale of what’s happening in Gaza. The government is consistently, pitifully, unwilling to take meaningful action and that is our problem. The government is our responsibility. They are the ones representing us on the world stage. They are failing us, and failing the Palestinian people, by refusing to turn our empathy into actual leverage.

This is not a particularly comfortable article to write. I am Irish.

I’d like to see that attitude displayed by my own compatriots.

And I’m sorry for your illness. Do doctors ever talk to you about feeding good gut bacteria and starving the overgrowth of others?

bc Irish workers by and large aren’t organised the same way, like, Italian dock workers or whatever were, there isn’t actually that much domestic industry that aren’t just American corporations, and there sadly isn’t as much of a culture of collective action or even adventurist sabotage as there used to be

because temporarily humiliated europeans will take advantage of that white privilege when its their time

They killed most of the communists off during the civil wars and then the rest during the troubles.

Paul Murphy and Richard Barrett seem to be advocating for them.