David Landy is assistant professor of sociology at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights: Diaspora Jewish Opposition to Israel, and has written on social movements in Ireland and abroad. He was a member of the Irish Green Party from 1988 to 1995.
Polls for Saturday’s Irish general election show growing support for the Greens. But the party’s record shows that it has little interest in transformative climate action — and no will at all to challenge corporate elites.