"I told Khalidi that it made sense that, given our history, Irish people might be broadly sympathetic toward the Palestinian cause. What made less intuitive sense to me, I said, was that such a cultural memory of colonisation – the knowledge that atrocities took place in your own country at the hands of a foreign occupying power – might be some kind of necessary condition for understanding that similar atrocities occurring today are also wrong. I got the impression that Khalidi, despite his expertise in colonial history and his years of political activism on behalf of the Palestinian cause, was also a little mystified by it. As the country with the longest colonial experience, Ireland, he acknowledged, was a “special case”; that such extraordinary historical conditions might be a requirement for basic morality did not seem so easily explicable."
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/12/21/the-mystery-is-not-why-we-irish-have-responded-to-israels-barbarism-its-why-others-have-not/