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  1. Eight scholars of the Irish Famine issue St Patrick's Day call to Irish Americans to avert deliberate starvation in Gaza, carefully narrating how deprivation turns first to subsisting on animal fodder, then waves of death. irishcentral.com/opinion/others/irish-american-famine-gaza?utm_campaign=article-shares&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
    1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
      They also highlight the Gaza famine as more deliberate than usual, caused directly by Israeli policies, and that UNRWA has been defunded when it is best positioned to feed the starving.
      1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
        American descendants of the Irish Famine, including @JoeBiden, these scholars write, have a special obligation to end this starvation campaign through refusing military aid, not vetoing at the UN, and fully funding UNRWA relief efforts.