What’s behind Ireland’s support for Palestine?
Al Jazeera
A shared sense of struggle underpins a bond, and after the recent conflict, Dublin has made landmark diplomatic moves against Israel.
After Abraham Aljamal Phelan moved to Dublin in the late 1980s, many customers at his grocery store, where the shelves were adorned with fresh figs and olives, were up to date with the latest news from his native Palestine. During their exchanges about food, culture and history, his stories of home found sympathetic ears. “They relate to what’s going on, for what we are going through, they relate to it in Ireland because of their history,” he told Al Jazeera.
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