Why do Irish people support Hamas/Palestine so much?

quote:

---

Why is this? Am I missing a cultural pull here?

---

Maybe the hundreds of years Ireland was “occupied” by England. The oppressed syndrome.

Yeah I get the history of suppression but I would think it’s the other way. That they would be protecting Israel for being attacked by forces around them.

Is the way of 'their people'.

quote:

---

Tyson Fury (Irishman) just blamed his boxing loss on the war

---

I think he was referencing the Ukrainian war… you know since he was fighting a Ukrainian fighter

There’s a difference between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

Fury is a low IQ simp.

Lord Mountbatten comes to mind,.


As does Patriot Games

quote:

---

The Boat

---

No cap

I wondered how long this thread would go without somebody pointing out that Hamas and Palestine are not synonymous.

There's a lot of parallels between The Troubles and the intifada- especially in imagery/optics. Think masked teens throwing rocks at soldiers and armored vehicles.

There's also a very old link between the IRA and PLO going back to the training camps in N Africa. It was the IRA who taught PLO how to build bombs and snipe from the trunks of cars.

Both fought the British.

But what you are seeing is this history expressed through Sinn Fein. If you support Sinn Fein you are sympathetic to the Palestenians just like if you are a Democrat here you automatically do the same. It isn't an informed o ersonal belief, it is a conditioned group think.