A Palestinian woman from the Abu Taim family comforts a little girl as they collect the body of a relative for burial from the al-Nasser hospital in southern Gaza. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Michael Davitt, the founder of the Irish Land League in 1879, travelled to Kishinev in the Russian empire in 1903 and identified similarities between British imperial control of Ireland and Russian treatment of Jews, leading him to believe in the “remedy of Zionism”. One-hundred years later, Irish minister for foreign affairs Michael O’Kennedy stated that Ireland “recognised that in the establishment of a just and lasting...