Brits and Americans seem to love going "what possible connection is there, you're clearly virtue signalling/hijacking a cause/don't understand history/etc" when they see someone Irish supporting Palestine and then do a really good job of ignoring all the loyalists in northern Ireland who're putting up Israeli flags next to union jacks and "we stand with soldier F" banners
It's just wild to me to see very self serious politics people blow one off as a bunch of loony leftists that only exist online and ignoring that the other exists when I can see both on the way from my house to big tesco
thinking about it more I've seen this same kind of argument from foreigners against irish solidarity with native americans too, you'll get a lot of "why do you care? what's it got to do with you?" implying that you need a reason (lmao) and that your reasoning is historically ignorant and that irish history wasn't that bad/like that rather than the reality that both peoples were on the boot end of colonialism.
There's a weird tendency online to try and present irish people as having more in common with irish americans than anyone else, and all the political baggage that comes with that of being the first world white oppressor and actually if anything we should be on the other side of the argument? That or we're all catholics who can't pronounce th sounds
