Tag: ireland

Ireland Shows That Divesting From Israeli Crimes Is Possible and Necessary

October 8, 2025 Richard Solomon

by Richard Solomon In the 1840s, a million people in Ireland died of starvation in a famine called the An Gorta Mór aggravated by British colonial policies and a providential ideology that preached the poor deserved their fate. Nearly a million others fled to the United States, […]

Politics, Power, and Prejudice: Will Ireland Resist U.S. Pressure and Pass the Occupied Territories Bill?

September 4, 2025 Jeannie Connerney

by Jeannie Connerney On July 19, tens of thousands of people marched through Dublin in solidarity with Palestine. Among their demands were that the Irish government finally enact a bill first proposed and passed by both houses of parliament in 2018. The Occupied Territories Bill […]

Ireland Stands with Palestine, but Does the Taoiseach?

March 18, 2025 Jeannie Connerney

by Jeannie Connerney *Taoiseach is the Irish word for head of government or prime minister “Two psychopaths sitting in front of an open fire in the White House.” That’s how Ruth Coppinger, a member of Ireland’s People Before Profit party, described Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu […]