As you say the history of Ireland has similarities although the history is longer as Ireland was conquered in the 16th century. Then the pattern of brining in protestant English speaking settlers to a native gaelic speaking catholic population began, and land confiscated for settlers especially in the province of Ulster. Revolts were unsucessful leading to the Protestant Ascendancy - the political, social and economic domination of Ireland. The UK government's war against Irish Independence led to partition in 1921 creating a protestant unionist majority holding 6 of the 9 counties of Ulster. The 'ancient' feud between Catholics and Protestants then being that Unionists home rule led to systematic discrimination against Catholics in housing and jobs. Always characterised as a religious conflict rather than a conflict about the partition of Ireland
Given the unwavering support of the British media and establishment for the Unionist majority during the whole of the 30 year (1969 -1998) armed conflict - and the failure to provide a historic context to the British people even when so close to home - it is highly unlikely that UK will acknowledge its role in creating Israeli apartheid. This is demonstrated by Sunak's telling Netanyhu: 'We will stand with your people, we want you to win'. Labour is too frightened of being accused of ant-semitism should they show any support for the Palestinian people - in this the campaign to associate anti-semitism with anti-zionism has been succesful. All of this despite there being a recent poll that shows that 76 percent of adults in the UK think there should be a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine war.
As you say the history of Ireland has similarities although the history is longer as Ireland was conquered in the 16th century. Then the pattern of brining in protestant English speaking settlers to a native gaelic speaking catholic population began, and land confiscated for settlers especially in the province of Ulster. Revolts were unsucessful leading to the Protestant Ascendancy - the political, social and economic domination of Ireland. The UK government's war against Irish Independence led to partition in 1921 creating a protestant unionist majority holding 6 of the 9 counties of Ulster. The 'ancient' feud between Catholics and Protestants then being that Unionists home rule led to systematic discrimination against Catholics in housing and jobs. Always characterised as a religious conflict rather than a conflict about the partition of Ireland
Given the unwavering support of the British media and establishment for the Unionist majority during the whole of the 30 year (1969 -1998) armed conflict - and the failure to provide a historic context to the British people even when so close to home - it is highly unlikely that UK will acknowledge its role in creating Israeli apartheid. This is demonstrated by Sunak's telling Netanyhu: 'We will stand with your people, we want you to win'. Labour is too frightened of being accused of ant-semitism should they show any support for the Palestinian people - in this the campaign to associate anti-semitism with anti-zionism has been succesful. All of this despite there being a recent poll that shows that 76 percent of adults in the UK think there should be a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine war.