The Belfast rap group Kneecap draw explicit parallels between Northern Ireland and Gaza and are lauded by cultural and political institutions. Ireland’s past troubles are romanticised and then linked to Palestine’s present: historical paramilitary campaigns are recast as liberation movements; the IRA and Hamas presented as freedom fighters. On the International Wall in Belfast, a large mural displays the bond between Ireland and Gaza’s causes, with two hands clasped through prison bars, one arm draped in the tricolour, the other in the Palestinian flag. It reads: ‘Solidarity POWs’. ✍️ Eilis O'Hanlon Article | spectator.com/article/how-ir…