Ireland’s Past Lives in Gaza’s Present The world watched Ireland starve. It watches Gaza now.

A history of hunger and oppression has created a longstanding bond between Irish and Palestinian people.

The story of Ireland’s Great Hunger is often told with an air of distant tragedy, a famine that killed one million people and sent another million scattering across the world in search of survival. But famine is never just about nature. It is a weapon forged in policy, in cruelty, and in the quiet indifference of powerful nations. Today, the streets of …