By Marie-Violaine Louvet
Civil Society, Post-Colonialism and Transnational unity originates from Louvet’s statement of the robust dedication of a layer of Irish civil society- from the fellow in the street to political events, institutions and exchange unions- to the defence of 1 antagonist or the opposite within the Israeli-Palestinian clash, starting with the Six Day warfare in 1967 and more and more so after the Lebanon Wars in the beginning of the Nineteen Eighties and the second one Intifada (2000-2005). This booklet observes how this phenomenon is very amazing in Northern eire, the place Israeli and Palestinian flags were flown through Unionists and Nationalists as indicators of harmony and identity. Louvet sheds gentle at the dynamics and techniques at play within the heart East clash in Northern eire but in addition within the Republic of eire, a rustic thought of to be commonly sympathetic to the Palestinian reason. With an overarching point of view highlighting the effect of Irish colonial heritage over the causes and discourse of the various degrees of mobilization in civil society, this booklet exhibits the worldwide flow in the direction of the fragmentation and specialization of transnational team spirit activities in eire.
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27 The Irish-Arab Society obtained new premises, and Eurabia and the European Coordination Committee of Friendship Societies with the Arab World began to share theirs. Eurabia provided logistical help to the Society, with the production and distribution of literature to politicians, religious leaders and the media as well as the organization of meetings and exchanges of delegations. 28 23 The line defended by Frank Aiken in the UN, his ‘three point plan for the Middle East’, is generally considered as being rather pro-Palestinian.
53 ‘Ireland Friends of Palestine’, The Irish Times, 11 March 1981. 54 See Ishizuka, K. (2005) ‘Ireland and International Peacekeeping Operations 1960–2000: a Study of Irish Motivation’, in Ishizuka, K. and Jeffery, K. ) Ireland and International Peacekeeping Operations 1960–2000 (London: Frank Cass), 99–132. 55 See The Irish Times articles: ‘Israeli press criticises Irish troops’, 15 April 1980; ‘Hostility grows as Israeli envoy attacks Ireland’, 21 April 1980; ‘Israel blamed for dead soldiers’, 28 April 1980; ‘Haddad accuses Irish in Lebanon’, 29 April 1980.
1984) Homo Academicus (Paris: Edition de Minuit). 29 Fritsch, P. ʻIntroductionʼ in Bourdieu, P. 14–15. 30 Bourdieu, P. 4. Part I Irish Civil Society and Transnational Solidarity with Palestine The structural form of transnational solidarity with Palestine in Ireland is characterized by flexibility, as the creation of mobilisation structures does not necessarily involve large-scale funding or long-term commitment. Pro-Palestinian mobilisation structures in Ireland are short-lived or long-lived cells whose birth, periods of activity, breaks and death are conditioned by simultaneous events in the Middle East.