Irish Americans helped settle the clash in Northern Ireland. Jewish communities could play a similar role for Israel and PalestineDiasporas can be trouble. Whether it was the German-Americans who agitated to keep the United States out of the war against Hitler,the Irish-Americans who bankrolled the IRA’s “armed struggle”, or the Cuban-Americans who lobbied to keep the US shackled to a pointless embargo of the island, and émigré communities have a chequered record when it comes to the influencing of foreign policy.
The scholar Fred Halliday used to joke that there was a doctoral thesis waiting to be written on “irresponsible diasporas,focusing on those who, when it comes to the affairs of the obsolete country, or strike poses that attend no one. Related: Cold consolation: the Syrian refugees trying to make a unique life in Sweden Related: Germany's 'failed' multiculturalism carries on regardless Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com