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A review by camifleming6
A Shared Struggle: Stories of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers by Norma Hashim, Yousef M. Aljamal
5.0
"To be a revolutionary you must be an internationalist. You must support 'the wretched of the earth' in their struggles. We are all one." (p. 31)
The chapter "A Bird in Prison" truly made me cry. While this book is difficult to read if you have any sense of empathy, it is necessary and these prisoners stories deserve and must be told. Wow. Ireland, alongside South Africa, has been so outspoken against the illegal occupation and apartheid in Palestine and this book reveals so much more of the fraternity between those countries that have been beaten down by colonialism and occupation.
"Located in two different continents, Palestine and Ireland suffered from the same brutal British colonialism. The brutality of the British colonialization was not only reflected in the way they savagely invaded, occupied and colonized the two countries but also in the racist laws they imposed on the Palestinian and Irish people. (p. 22)
The chapter "A Bird in Prison" truly made me cry. While this book is difficult to read if you have any sense of empathy, it is necessary and these prisoners stories deserve and must be told. Wow. Ireland, alongside South Africa, has been so outspoken against the illegal occupation and apartheid in Palestine and this book reveals so much more of the fraternity between those countries that have been beaten down by colonialism and occupation.
"Located in two different continents, Palestine and Ireland suffered from the same brutal British colonialism. The brutality of the British colonialization was not only reflected in the way they savagely invaded, occupied and colonized the two countries but also in the racist laws they imposed on the Palestinian and Irish people. (p. 22)