Month: November 2023
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Online seminar: Collective Punishment, Genocide and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine
The Maynooth University Research Centre in International Justice and the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute are organising an online expert panel entitled Collective Punishment, Genocide and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine. This event will take place 5-7pm GMT on Wednesday 22nd November 2023. The speakers are: This event is also supported by Academics for Palestine (national and…
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Academics for Palestine statement on academic boycott & academic freedom
17th November 2023 A letter organised by Academics for Palestine and signed by over 600 scholars calling on universities in Ireland to sever any existing institutional partnerships or affiliations with Israeli institutions was published in The Irish Times on 4th November 2023. That letter remains open for signature by academics and scholars in or from Ireland via the Academics for Palestine website, and…
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Letter to Irish newspapers, November 2023
The letter below was published by the Irish Times on 4 November 2023 with 633 signatures that had been collected by 5pm on 2 November. Further signatures are again being collected for adding here – the number now stands at more than 950. We write as academics and scholars in or from Ireland. The scale…
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Letter to Hebrew University re Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Prof Asher Cohen, President, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof Tamir Sheafer, Rector, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 3 November 2023 Dear Professors Cohen and Sheafer, I am writing to you on behalf of Academics for Palestine, an affiliation of academics in Ireland who have ties to Palestine and who act in solidarity with Palestinian academics. We…
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