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July 18, 2024

Why Ireland Cares So Much about Israelis and Palestinians

Eamon Valera’s turn against the Jews.

In Belfast, there is a large mural dedicated to the story of the Jewish Legion, which fought with the British army during World War I and was led and organized by a philo-Semitic Irish officer named J.H. Patterson. (You can read about his fascinating story at the link below.) The mural brought Kyle Orton to reflect on the strong feelings so many Irish have about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and how they came to see it through the lenses of their own history of bloody internecine warfare:

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