I think some people are vaguely aware of the solidarity between the Irish and Palestinians (my grandma grew up Catholic in Northern Ireland and it informs my politics as a communist). It’s not just a symbolic thing. A lot of their respective problems in the 20th century were caused by Literally the Same Fucking Guy
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in reply to @ICELEVEL's post:
a fun fact I learned recently is that "hava nagila" was composed in 1918 specifically in celebration of the defeat of the ottomans and the balfour declaration, which reduced the amount of a bop it is by about 99.9%
sadly shaking my head to hava nagila, but on beat so you know I'm still jamming
holy shit
in reply to @ICELEVEL's post:
solidarity with palestine is more or less the default stance in ireland so after I moved to england and found out that it was a decidedly Controversial View it blew my fucking mind. I didn't know that about balfour but it absolutely fucking figures.
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