Why do Irish people support Hamas/Palestine so much?

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

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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.

The Irish are pretty much the Palestinians of the British Isles. They committed terrorist attacks in the UK to try to drive them off the island. Pretty Muslim-y

Fury is a low IQ simp.

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.

Irish Republicanism has a long history of alliance with radical socialist movements and other terror orgs

Rightly or wrongly, now it’s just a perpetually victimhood movement with a collective hand out

Resentment of Leopold Bloom

Why can’t people support both Israel and Palestine and be against Hamas? Not fricking hard to understand, but these are dumbass people

If not for the mainstream media, so would most Americans.

Because they watch the news and don’t think about stepping into a library with historical references.