UNITED BY PARTITION? Ireland's experience of partition informed the attitudes of people across the island towards British plans for Palestine. Today it informs sympathies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The article examines the historical and contemporary parallels between the partition of Ireland and the conflict in Palestine, focusing on Irish perspectives toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It highlights how Ireland's own experience with partition in the early 20th century influenced reactions to British plans to partition Palestine in the 1930s, particularly the 1937 Peel Commission report, which proposed dividing Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Irish nationalist and unionist responses to the Peel plan were shaped by their own histories of imperialism and sectarian division, with many predicting that partition would fail to bring lasting peace. The article also notes that current political allegiances in Ireland and Northern Ireland toward Israel or Palestine continue to reflect these historical and communal identities.