Irish lesson on this Easter Weekend

Noted Palestinian historian Rashid Khalid left his post at Columbia, and move to Ireland. His words: Examining Ireland and Palestine as the “first and last laboratories where the British state experimented with settler colonialism”, Professor Khalidi argues that “Ireland served as a template for the expansion of the British Empire over its long history” and that many of the tactics we see being deployed in Palestine were first tested and implemented in Ireland. Ireland’s struggle with Britain and that of the Palestinians with the Zionist movement and its British colonial...