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A visitor in a keffiyeh stands before the “Civil Rights Association” mural in Derry, Northern Ireland, depicting a scene from Bloody Sunday in 1972. The mural, part of Derry’s Bogside, honors the Irish civil rights movement and its resonance with global struggles for justice, including solidarity with Palestine. (Photo: Eman Mohammed)

A delegation of Palestinian activists and movement leaders visited the north of Ireland to ground ourselves in its history of anti-imperialism. Derry was more than a city for us—it mirrored our shared history of colonial oppression and resistance.

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally in Dublin in solidarity with Palestine as part of the Global Day of Action on May 23, 2021. (Photo: Twitter/ @ipsc48)

In a unanimous vote, the Irish parliament, the Dáil, passed a motion calling Israel’s ongoing settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territory as “de facto annexation.” Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq praised the motion on Wednesday, saying “Ireland stood up in defense of human rights and became a beacon for the world to follow.”