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 22^nd November 2023.

The speakers are:

• Maha Abdallah, Graduate Teaching Assistant and PhD Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp
• Shane Darcy, Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, National University of Ireland Galway
• Saleh Hijazi, Policy Coordinator, Palestinian BDS National Committee

 This event is also supported by Academics for Palestine (national and Maynooth branch), Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Maynooth Students’ Union.
Click here to register for this event.

Speaker biographies:
Professor Shane Darcy
 Professor Shane Darcy is the Deputy Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law at the National University of Ireland Galway, where he teaches business and human rights, international humanitarian law and international criminal law. He is the author of Judges, Law and War; The Judicial Development of International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and To Serve the Enemy: Informers, Collaborators and the Laws of Armed Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2019). He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Business and Human Rights Journal, the Irish Yearbook of International Law and Criminal Law Forum.

Maha Abdallah
Maha Abdallah is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and PhD Researcher in the field of public international law at the Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on genocide, Zionism, settler colonialism and the Palestinian people.

Saleh Hijazi
Saleh Hijazi is the Apartheid-Free Policy Coordinator at the Palestinian BDS National Committee, and a Policy Member of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. As a researcher and human rights activist, Saleh previously worked at Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Al-Quds University Human Rights Clinic. Saleh holds a master’s degree in human rights from the University of Essex and a bachelor degree in philosophy from Lawrence University.

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 now counts upwards of 900 signatures. 

In response, a small number of academics wrote to express their opposition to our call to suspend ties with Israeli institutions, and instead proposed doing nothing. 

They emphasised the need for dialogue with Israeli academic colleagues, but it is important to be clear that suspending institutional collaborations and complicity does not stop dialogue between scholars – there are many ways and spaces where those dialogues can and do continue to happen. 

The responses to our letter also highlighted the need to stand with critical and dissenting scholars in Israeli universities. Those making that call are very welcome to join Academics for Palestine in the work that we are actively continuing to do on this front – such as intervening in defence of scholars like Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Nurit Peled-Elhanan who have been suspended or threatened with dismissal by their own universities in Israel for voicing anti-war or anti-genocide positions. 

The reality is that while plenty of individual scholars in Israel may not support the occupation or the siege of Gaza, at an institutional level their universities do – in a whole variety of ways. Israeli universities have joint projects with arms and weapons companies. They are heavily involved in the research and development of Israeli military security and surveillance technologies. They train personnel, advisors and lawyers for an army that has now bombed all 11 of Gaza’s universities and killed thousands of students. They hold the corpses of some Palestinians killed by occupation forces at their campus facilities. They are in some cases physically built on illegally expropriated lands in occupied Palestinian territory. And at this moment in time they are heavily engaged in the repression of Gaza solidarity positions adopted by Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian staff and students alike.

So yes, dialogue is important, but entrenched military occupation, colonisation and siege won’t be ended by dialogue between scholars. It will require a whole range of international sanctions and pressure to support the Palestinian movements for freedom and equality. An institutional academic boycott is the one small but concrete step that we as scholars and university communities can take in that direction, and is the one thing our Palestinian colleagues have asked of us. Those who continue to object to it (especially now as the Palestinian death toll continues to mount and the effects of mass displacement and collective punishment get worse by the day) seem scarcely different from those who opposed the boycott of apartheid South Africa for its duration, before later trying to claim they had supported it all along.

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 and severity of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip has exceeded all previous levels of violence in the prolonged and brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is a campaign of ethnic cleansing and, according to many experts, genocidal violence. The incursion by Palestinian armed groups on 7^th October included criminal attacks against civilians. But under no circumstances does international law permit the systematic bombardment and collective punishment of civilians in a besieged occupied territory.

The dehumanising language and tropes widely used by Israeli leaders in reference to Palestinians echo those typically associated with genocidal incitement and intent. In the past three weeks, Israel’s military acts have matched those words, killing more than 9,000 Palestinians inside Gaza, including some 3,760 children (more than the annual number of children killed in the rest of the world’s armed conflicts combined). Many more Palestinians are dying from the lack of fuel, water, electricity and medical supplies due to the deliberate blockade. Gaza’s hospitals are barely able to function – no power for ventilators, using vinegar as antiseptic, performing surgeries without anaesthetic – and continue to be hit by Israeli airstrikes. The situation is beyond inhumane.

Leading Jewish and Israeli scholars of Holocaust and genocide studies have called this ‘a textbook case of genocide’. Bosnian genocide experts have likewise stated that “what is happening in Gaza is genocide”. After the first week of Israel’s onslaught, a group of more than 800 international lawyers and genocide scholars were “compelled to sound the alarm about the possibility of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces”, while UN human rights special rapporteurs warned of “the risk of genocide against the Palestinian people”, calling on all states and international organisations to fulfil their duties to prevent genocide. The killing and destruction has only escalated since then. More than 60 UN member states have now used the language of genocide to describe Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s population. This week, the South African foreign minister referenced the Rwandan genocide and “reminded the international community not to stand idle while another genocide is unfolding”. 

With the atrocities in Gaza now added to Israel’s 75 years of colonisation and occupation of Palestinian lands, there should be nothing remotely approximate to “business as usual” continuing. Many Irish universities and EU-funded research projects have active collaborations with Israeli universities. Israeli universities are, in the words of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, “major, willing and persistent accomplices in Israel’s regime of occupation” and its military infrastructures. Meanwhile, several Palestinian universities in Gaza have been destroyed by the Israeli airstrikes, with some 70 academics and 2,000 students among the civilians killed.

We call on all universities in Ireland to immediately sever any existing institutional partnerships or affiliations with Israeli institutions. Those ties should be suspended until the occupation of Palestinian territory is ended, the Palestinian rights to equality and self-determination are vindicated, and the right of Palestinian refugees to return is facilitated. Anything less at this point amounts to tacit support for crimes against humanity.

– Yours etc,

Professor Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin
Professor Siobhán Wills, Director of the Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University
Professor Eugenia Siapera, University College Dublin
Professor Emer Nolan, Maynooth University
Professor Laura McAtackney, Radical Humanities Laboratory & Archaeology, University College Cork
Professor Nicholas Daly, University College Dublin
Professor Aoife O’Donoghue, Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Derek Doherty, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Gavan Titley Maynooth University
Professor Lionel Pilkington, University of Galway
Professor Karen Till, Maynooth University Department of Geography
Professor Mathias Urban, Dublin City University
Professor Michelle Farrell, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
Professor Laurence Cox, Maynooth University
Professor Helena Sheehan, Dublin City University
Professor Mairead Enright, University of Birmingham
Professor Mary Gilmartin, Maynooth University
Professor Mark Boyle, Maynooth University
Professor Padraig McAuliffe, University of Liverpool
Professor Gerry Kearns, Maynooth University
Professor David Storey, University of Worcester
Professor John Fox, University of Magee.
Professor Aoife Daly, University College Cork
Professor Jane Grogan, UCD
Professor Cahal McLaughlin, Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Benjamin Dwyer, Middlesex University
Professor Pádraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Alison Forrestal, MRIA
Professor John Barry, Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Mark Cassidy, IADT
Professor Ronaldo Munck, DCU
Professor Stewart Smyth, University College Cork
Professor Dominic Bryan, Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Pablo Gracia, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Conchúr Ó Giollagáin, University of the Highlands and Islands
Dr Aaron Mac Raighne
Dr Abid Yaqoob
Dr Adam Kelly, University College Dublin
Dr Adrian Howlett
Dr Adrian Scahill, Maynooth University
Dr Aidan Kenny
Dr Aileen Kennedy, Technological University Dublin
Dr Aileen O’Carroll, Maynooth University
Dr Áine Clancy, University of Liverpool
Dr Aisling Costello, Technological University Dublin
Dr Aisling O’Beirn
Dr Alan Greene, Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Birmingham Law School
Dr Alanna O’Malley
Dr Alice Panepinto, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Amanda Feery, University of Galway
Dr Amanda Kramer, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Amina Adanan, Maynooth University
Dr Ana Ivasiuc, Maynooth University
Dr Andrew Darley
Dr Andrew Forde, Visiting Fellow, Irish Centre for Human Rights
Dr Andrew Gibson
Dr Aneta Stępień
Dr Angela Flynn, UCC
Dr Angelos Bollas, Dublin City University
Dr Anita Ferrara
Dr Ann-Marie Hanlon
Dr Anne Mulhall, School of English, Drama & Film, UCD
Dr Anne Neylon, University of Liverpool
Dr Aoife O’Leary McNeice, University of Exeter
Dr Audrey Bryan, Dublin City University
Dr Barbara O’Toole, Marino Institute of Education
Dr Barraí Hennebry, Dept. of Lifelong Learning, Technological University of the Shannon
Dr Barry Cannon, Maynooth University
Dr Bashir Otukoya, PhD – Griffith College Dublin
Dr Bernie Grummell
Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne, TCD
Dr Brian Hanley, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Brian Kelly
Dr Brid Ni Chonaill
Dr Bronagh Catibusic, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Camilla Fitzsimons – Maynooth University
Dr Carmel Brennan
Dr Carol Ballantine, UCD
Dr Caroline Ann O’Sullivan TU Dublin
Dr Catherine Ann Cullen, UCD
Dr Catherine Baker, Dublin City University
Dr Catherine Conlon
Dr Catherine Palmer Munster Institute of Technology
Dr Catherine Swift, Mary Immaculate College
Dr Chandana Mathur, Maynooth University
Dr Charles O’Mahony
Dr Charles O’Sullivan
Dr Charlie Kerrigan Trinity College, Dublin
Dr Christa de Brùn, Lecturer in English Literature, SETU Waterford
Dr Cian Ó Concubhair, Maynooth University School of Law & Criminology
Dr Cian O’Callaghan, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Cian Reid
Dr Ciara Breathnach, UL
Dr Ciara Gorman, MU
Dr Ciara L. Murphy, TU Dublin
Dr Ciarán Treacy – UCD
Dr Claire Raissian UCC
Dr Clare Patton, School of Law, University of Leeds
Dr Clare Scully, TU Dublin
Dr Clare Tebbutt, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Claudia Dellacasa, University College Dublin
Dr Clíona Hensey
Dr Cóilín Parsons, Georgetown University
Dr Colette Murray
Dr Colin Breen, Ulster University
Dr Colm Walsh, QUB
Dr Connell Vaughan, TU Dublin
Dr Conor Buggy, University College Dublin
Dr Conor Caldwell (University of Limerick)
Dr Conor Crummey
Dr Daniel Joseph Ringis – Trinity College Dublin
Dr Danielle Gallagher, TCD
Dr David Hughes, University College Dublin
Dr David Keane, DCU
Dr David Kennedy, Dublin City University
Dr David Landy, Trinity College Dublin
Dr David Mitchell, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast
Dr David Ralph, TCD
Dr Deirdre Byrne ATU, Sligo.
Dr Deirdre Flynn
Dr Deirdre Kelly, Language Studies–Spanish, TU Dublin
Dr Des McGuinness (Retired). Dublin City University
Dr Detta Dickinson
Dr Diego Montagner, Maynooth University
Dr Dominic Hewson University of Limerick
Dr Donal Coffey, Maynooth University
Dr Dónal Hassett, University College Cork
Dr Dónal Holland, UCD
Dr Donna Rodgers-Lee, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Dr Dyuti Chakravarty, University College Cork
Dr Éadaoin Butler
Dr Eamonn Crudden : Dundalk Institute of Technology
Dr Edel Hughes, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway
Dr Edward Brennan, TU Dublin
Dr Edward Molloy (formerly UCC)
Dr Éidín Ní Shé, RCSI
Dr Eileen Culloty, DCU
Dr Eithne O’Connell, retired DCU
Dr Elizabeth Boyle, Maynooth University
Dr Ellen Dillon (School of English, DCU)
Dr Ellen Howley, DCU
Dr Ellen Reynor DCU
Dr Elliot Murphy – Imperial College London
Dr Emer Purcell, National University of ireland
Dr Emma Campbell, Ulster University
Dr Emma Crowley, University of Bristol
Dr Emma Dolan, University of Limerick
Dr Emma Leacy, RCSI
Dr Eoghan Ross TCD, LJMU
Dr Eoin Daly, University of Galway
Dr Eoin Flaherty, Maynooth University
Dr Eoin Flannery, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Dr Erika Jiménez, Queens University Belfast
Dr Estelle Murphy
Dr Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh
Dr Fergal Finnegan. Maynooth University
Dr Fiadh Tubridy, Department of Geography, UCD
Dr Fintan Sheerin, Trinity College, Dublin.
Dr Fiona McDermott, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Fiona Murphy, Assistant Prof Refugee studies, Dublin City University
Dr Francis Anthony O’Neill Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Gary Hussey, UCD.
Dr Gearóid Ó Cuinn, Adjunct Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights
Dr Gene Carolan, Lecturer in Law, TU Dublin
Dr Giampiero Tarantino, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Sociology
Dr Gillian Moore, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Harry Browne, TU Dublin
Dr Kathy Glavanis-Grantham, University College Cork (retired)
Dr Harun Šiljak, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Helen Maher
Dr Jack Sheehan, Trinity College Dublin
Dr James Beirne, Maynooth University
Dr James Reynolds, University College Dublin
Dr James Steinhoff
Dr Jerry O’Neill, Maynooth University
Dr Jessica Foley, IADT
Dr Joanne Cusack (Maynooth University)
Dr John Cunningham, Dept of History, University of Galway
Dr John P Gilmore, UCD
Dr John Reynolds, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
Dr Joss Moorkens, Dublin City University
Dr Julie Harris Ulster University
Dr Jurgita Bukauskaite Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway
Dr Justin Carville, IADT Dun Laoghaire
Dr Karen Slattery, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Karen Smith, UCD
Dr Karen Wade, UCD School of English, Drama and Film
Dr Kate Antosik-Parsons, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Katherine Fama, UCD
Dr Katherine Kanne, UCD
Dr Keefe Murphy (Maynooth University)
Dr Keith Peter Kiely
Dr Kenneth Murphy
Dr Kevin Farrell, TU Dublin
Dr Kevin Murphy TUDublin
Dr Kylie Jarrett, Maynooth University.
Dr Laura Madrigal – Estebas, St Patrick’s College Maynooth
Dr Laura Watson
Dr Liam Chambers, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Dr Liam Thornton, School of Law, University College Dublin
Dr Luca Crispi
Dr Lucas Olmedo, University College Cork
Dr Lucy Collins, University College Dublin
Dr Maeve Connolly, IADT
Dr Máire Ní Mhórdha
Dr Malachy Mathews
Dr Marcas Mac Coinnigh, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Maria Lichrou, University of Limerick
Dr Maria Parsons
Dr Marie Flynn, Dublin City University
Dr Mark Cullinane, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork
Dr Mark Curran IADT
Dr Mark Walsh, Maynooth University
Dr Martha Shearer, UCD
Dr Martin Marjoram, TU Dublin
Dr Mary Ann Bolger, TU Dublin
Dr Mary Farrelly, University College Dublin
Dr Mary McAuliffe, UCD
Dr Mary Rambaran-Olm, Public Historian
Dr Md Robiul Hossain
Dr Meg Ryan, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Megan Coghlan, Maynooth University
Dr Megan Vine
Dr Mercedes Carbayo Abengozar
Dr Miceal Canavan – Aarhus University
Dr Michael Carr
Dr Michael G Cronin Maynooth University
Dr Michael Kane, DBS
Dr Michael Pierse, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Michelle Rouse, Ulster University
Dr Mike Murphy, UCC
Dr Molly Manning, University of Limerick
Dr Morgan Wait UCD
Dr Muhammad Ali Farooq
Dr Muhammad Gulzari
Dr Naoise Murphy, Maynooth University
Dr Naomi McAreavey, University College Dublin
Dr Nata Duvvury, University of Galway
Dr Natalie Culligan – Maynooth University
Dr Nerys Williams
Dr Niall Kennedy, Dept. of French, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Niall Whelehan, University of Strathclyde
Dr Niamh Cullen, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Niamh Gaynor, Dublin City University
Dr Niamh McCrea South East Technological University
Dr Niamh McGuirk DCU
Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton, IADT
Dr Nigel Vahey
Dr Nisan ALICI Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Orla Kelleher, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna
Dr Paola Rivetti, Dublin City University
Dr Patricia Kettle
Dr Patricia McManus
Dr Patrick Bresnihan, Maynooth University
Dr Patrick Brodie
Dr Patrick Collins, University of Galway
Dr Patrick Doyle, University of Limerick
Dr Patrick Walsh Trinity College Dublin
Dr Paul Farrell, Technological University of Dublin
Dr Paul O’Connell, SOAS University of London
Dr Paula Gilligan, Senior Lecturer, IADT
Dr Ciara Bracken-Roche, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
Dr Philip Finn
Dr Philip Lawton
Dr Qurrat Ul Ain
Dr Rachel A Kiersey (independent)
Dr Rachna Shanbog
Dr Rebecca Usherwood, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Rhiannon Bandiera, Maynooth University
Dr Ricardo Segurado, University College Dublin
Dr Richard Gallagher
Dr Ríona Nic Congáil, University College Dublin
Dr Rita Sakr, Maynooth University
Dr Rónán Kennedy, University of Galway
Dr Ronit Lentin, Trinity College Dublin (Emeritus)
Dr Rory Rowan, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Rosie Meade, UCC
Dr Ruth Daly, University of Leeds
Dr Sarah Anne Dunne
Dr Sarah Brazil
Dr Sarah Comyn, University College Dublin
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Department of History, University of Galway
Dr Scott McKendry QUB
Dr Séagh Kehoe, University of Westminster
Dr Seamus Taylor, Head of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University
Dr Sean Leatherbury, UCD
Dr Sebastiaan Bierema, University of Galway
Dr Shane O Rourke, MTU
Dr Shannon Chance, TU Dublin
Dr Sharae Deckard, University College Dublin
Dr Sheila Long
Dr Sheldon D’Silva
Dr Sheryl Lynch
Dr Shivaun Quinlivan, University of Galway
Dr Sindy Joyce, University of Limerick
Dr Sinead Conneely, SETU.
Dr Sinéad Kennedy, Maynooth University
Dr Sinéad Ring, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University.
Dr Sobia Bano
Dr Stephen Dunne, University of Edinburgh
Dr Stephen O’Neill, English, TCD
Dr Steve Coleman, Maynooth University
Dr Su Ming Khoo, University of Galway
Dr Tania Malik, TU Dublin
Dr Theresa O’Keefe, University College Cork
Dr Thomas Davis Donnelly
Dr Thomas Murray, AONTAS Head of Research
Dr Thomas Ross Griffin
Dr Thomas Waller
Dr Tim Groenland, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin
Dr Tom Campbell, Department ofInternational Development, Maynooth University
Dr Tom O’Connor, Munster Technological University.
Dr Treasa De Loughry, University College Dublin
Dr Tupur Chatterjee, University College Dublin
Dr Walt Kilroy, Dublin City University
Dr Yağmur Hortoğlu, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
A. M. O’Neill, Trinity College Dublin
A.J. Pruitt, Trinity College Dublin
Aayush Singha Roy (UCD)
Abdulbaset Alazhare – Trinity College Dublin
Abdullahi Abdurrahman
Ahsan Awais
Aidan Murphy
Ailbhe Smyth, UCD (Retired)
Aileen Kelly – University of Galway
Aisling Walsh, University of Galway
Alice Feldman, University College Dublin
Alice Harrison BL, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
Alok Debnath, Trinity College Dublin
Alyssa Chua, Maynooth University
Amanie Issa
Amira Sabir – Queens University Belfast
Amy O’Riordan MA, SETU
Anastasiia Zubareva, University of Limerick
Andrew Breen, Trinity College Dublin
Andrew Finlay
Anne Ralph, Munster Technological University
Antoinette Rourke, Dundalk Institute of Technology
Antonis Prosilis, University College of Cork
Aoife Balfe Bean Uí Dhíomsaigh, IADT
Aoife Dare, PhD Candidate, University College Cork
Aoife Herrity IADT
Aoife Kavanagh, Trinity College Dublin
Aonghus Hunter-McCabe, Maynooth University
Asfand Bakht Yar
Atiya Usmani
Audrey Halpin, Dublin City University
Aydin Anil Mucek, University College Dublin
Ayse Ozcan Atar- University College Cork
Azza Warraitch
Bana Abu Zuluf, PhD researcher Maynooth University
Barbara Alam
Barbara Knežević
Barry Finnegan, Griffith College
Beatrice Canossi – University of Galway
Bennett Burke – Maynooth University, University of Texas
Brídín Ní Fhearraigh-Joyce
Britta Thiemt, TCD
C. T. Power – University College Dublin
Cai Pengpeng TCD
Callum Craig TCD
Cara levey, UCC
Caroline Lund, PhD Candidate, Trinity College Dublin
Caroline Marion, Trinity College Dublin
Cathal Burke O’Leary, DCU
Caylum O’Neill
Cebsile Mhlanga-Mamba Dublin
Chris O’Ralaigh, TU Dublin.
Cian Luddy, Queen’s University Belfast
Cíara Dempsey, University College Dublin
Ciara Gavin, University College Cork
Ciara Mulcahy Linehan
Ciara Walsh, University College Dublin
Ciarán Devoy PhD candidate UCC
Ciarán Ó Briain
Ciaran Sugrue, Emeritus Full Prof, UCD
Claire McNamara, Trinity College Dublin
Clare Bell, TU Dublin
Clare Ní Cheallaigh, UCD
Claudia Peroni, Trinity College Dublin
Claus Derenda
Colin Harper
Colin Powers, Noria Research
Conchúr Ó Maonaigh, Maynooth University
Conor Maguire, Trinity College Dublin/Dublin City University
Conor McCarthy, Maynooth University
Conor Reddy – PhD Researcher Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, President PWO Ireland
Cormac Deane, Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Courtney Curran, University of Galway
Criostóir King, Maynooth University
Cristina Perea del Olmo – PhD Researcher, University College Dublin
Czara Casey, Trinity College Dublin
Dáire Mag Cuill, Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta Bhaile Átha Cliath
Damian Cox, TU Dublin.
Danielle Murphy, Trinity College Dublin
Dara Flanagan, Ulster University
David Comer, PhD researcher, University of Galway.
David Healy, University College Cork
David Knight, TUDublin
David O’Connor, Technological University Dublin
David Peyton – TU Dublin
Dearbhaile Casey, PhD candidate
Declan McDonald, Queen’s University Belfast
Dervla Potter, DCU
Diarmuid O Brien, retired from Ballyfermot College of Further Education
Diogo Ferreira – Trinity College Dublin
Dorothy Morrissey, Alumna UCD
Douglas Carson, University College Dublin
Duduzile Unathi Ndlovu, University of Galway
Dylan Bailey, Maynooth University
Dylan Murphy, PhD Student
Eileen Mageean TU Dublin
Eimear Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh, University College Cork
Eimear Rice
Elaine Edmonds
Elaine Feeney, University of Galway
Elizabeth O’Gorman, UCD PhD student
Emer O’Brien, PhD researcher, UCD
Emeritus Professor John Pinkerton, Queen’s University Belfast
Emily Cunniffe, Trinity College Dublin
Emily Rick, University College Dublin
Emine Ay
Emma Taylor, Queen’s University Belfast
Emmet Donaghey – Ulster University
Fadila Alubeidi
Fazeel M.N.M.
Fiachra Coll, TU Dublin
Fiona McDonald, Design Fellow in Architecture, University College Dublin
Fionn Toland
Gaia Streparola
Garreth Smith
Garrett Greene, UCD
Gavin Buggy TU Dublin
Gemma Louise Heenan TCD and UCC
Geraldine Doherty, Ulster University
Gerry Arthurs, Lecturer in International Relations, South East Technological University
Gerry Farrelly
Grainne McKenna. Dublin City University.
Gráinne Ní Nualláin, School of English, Drama and Film, UCD
Gráinne Ward TU Dublin
Hamza Tariq
Hannah O’Brennan, Maynooth University
Hannah Rooney, NCAD
Harriet Idle
Harry Dunne TCD
Ian Kilroy, TU Dublin
Ishani Atukoralalage, University College Dublin
Iulia Molnar, UCD
Jack McNicholl (UCD School of Maths & Stats)
Jacob Miller (University College Dublin)
Jaleed Khan, University of Galway
Jane Cassidy – University of Galway
Jane Tynan, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jason Mc Guire UCC
Jason Michael McCann, DCU
Jean-Philippe Imbert (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Jennifer Stewart – TU Dublin
Jerry Bradley
Jim Roche, Senior Lecturer, TU Dublin
John Brady, University of Galway
John Matthews, University College Dublin
John P Healy
John Waddell, University of Galway
José Henríquez Leiva, University of Galway
Jovan Jeromela
Judy Walsh, University College Dublin
Julie Landers, NCAD
Karami Oloso
Kate Mac Sweeney, ICHR NUIG
Katherine Looby TUDublin
Katie Hanlan, NCAD
Katy Shi RCSI
Keelin Barry, University of Galway
Kelsey Campolong, Ulster University
Kevin Hearty, Lecturer in Criminology, Queen’s University Belfast
Kevin McParland, Department of Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology
Kirsten Larson – Irish Centre for Human Rights
Kristine O Dwyer
Laure Tymowski, PhD candidate, Maynooth University
Leah Downey, Trinity College Dublin
Liam Bradshaw
Liam McGlynn
Lisa Foran UCD
Louise Glynn MSc. Institute of Art Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire
M Masson, Ph.D – University College Dublin
Maëlle Noir, Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway
Maeve McGandy, University of Galway
Maia Purdue
Maria Geheran, TU Dublin
Maria Kenneally, TU Dublin Blanchardstown
Mariana Diniz – UL
Mariana Silva, TCD Environmental Engineering
Marion Bartl, University College Dublin
Marion Kiely UCC
Mark Anderson
Marnie Holborow Associate Faculty, Dubin City University
Martin McCabe, TU Dublin
Martina Coombes TU Dublin
Marty Gilroy, University College Dublin
Mary Hurley lecturer School of Applied Social Studies UCC
Mary Laheen, University College Dublin
Massilia Ait Ali Slimane, University of Limerick
Mathieu Bokestael, UCD
Matt Riemland, Dublin City University
Max Bradley, PhD Researcher, European University Institute
Meenakshi suku, Trinity college dublin
Mel Swords, Trinity College Dublin
Merlo Kelly, UCD
Mian Ibad, University of Galway
Michael Coleman, University College Dublin
Michael Haslam
Michael Hinds, PhD, DCU
Michelle Browne, National College of Art and Design
Míde Power, Trinity College Dublin
Miriam Delaney, TUDublin
Miss Niamh Coffey, University of Strathclyde
Mr Eddie Conlon TU Dublin
Mr Kyle Joshua Storey, TCD
Mr Taylor Follett, University College Dublin
Mr. Dara MacConville, Maynooth University
Mr. Dermot Dunne, TU Dublin
Mr. Eamonn Cooper Trinity College Dublin
Mr. John McGann TUDublin
Mr. Muhammad Mohsin
Mr. Paschal O’Connor – TUD
Ms Catherine Dawson, UCC
Ms Jennifer Cooney-Quane, UCC
Ms Shirley Donegan TU Dublin
Muhammad Huseen Khan- Technological University Dublin
Muhammad irfan
Muireann Ranta South East Technological University
Natalie Coleman, National College of Art and Design
Nathalie Cazaux, TU Dublin
Neal Halforty, Queens University Belfast
Neasa O’Donnell, University of Galway
Neill Wylie
Niall Sheil, PhD Student.
Niamh Burke, University College Dublin
Niamh Duggan
Niamh Keady-Tabbal, University of Galway
Niamh Ní Bhriain Transnational Institute
Niamh Rooney
Nicole Maiorano, Trinity College Dublin
Nikolaos Manaras-Maynooth University PhD Candidate
Noor Kherreh
Norah Campbell, PhD. Trinity College Dublin
Nouran Naged, University College Dublin
Obele Akinniranye
Odin O’Sullivan, University College Dublin
Odran Reid TU Dublin
Ogbugo Ukaha
Olivia Golden
Olivia Mohan, Trinity college Dublin
Pamina Contreras Kallens, University of Galway
Paola R. Peña – University College Dublin / ADAPT Centre
Pat Hannon
Patricia Farrell
Paul Fogarty TU Dublin
Paul Frewen University College Cork
Paul Markey, Hume Scholar, Maynooth University
Paul Michael Garrett, PhD. D.Litt, MRIA
Pearce Magee Queen’s University Belfast
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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 are deeply concerned by your openly published letter of October 29^th that threatened Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian of your own university, because she signed a petition. In particular, we are shocked at your statement that “We are sorry and ashamed that the Hebrew University includes a faculty member like you. In light of your feelings, we believe that it is appropriate for you to consider leaving your position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.”

We believe that such a statement goes beyond merely threatening Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s position and academic freedom. In light of the present situation in Israel, where right wing mobs have attacked Palestinian students in Israel and where threats and acts of violence against those who do not support the war is widespread, this statement and its wide dissemination within Israel may well be understood as incitement to violence – both verbal and physical – against a member of your own faculty. We understand that Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian has received many threats of violence, including death threats, following your letter.

The occasion for your extraordinary letter was that Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian signed a petition by childhood researchers calling for a ceasefire and an end to the mass killing of children by Israel. To date, almost 2,000 researchers and students in the field have signed this petition. You have the right to be “disgusted and deeply disappointed” as you put it, that childhood researchers want an end to the killing of children. However you also have the obligation to protect – not threaten – the academic freedom of members of your faculty, who disagrees with you about the need for a ceasefire.

You base your attack on Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian on the opinion that Israel’s actions in Gaza “do not come close to the definition of genocide”. Again, you have the right to this opinion. However, you must be aware that many scholars understand Israel to be committing genocide. For instance. the historian and expert in modern genocide, Raz Segal, has described Israel’s actions as a “textbook case of genocide”. Almost a thousand lawyers and scholars internationally have argued that a possible genocide is taking place in Gaza on the basis of the indiscriminate bombing, forcible population transfers and the deprivation of food, water, and fuel. Thus, you would be aware that the description of Israel’s actions as genocidal by the petition that Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian signed fits within a scholarly understanding of the situation, and that her freedom to express herself in this way should have been protected, not attacked.

Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian is well known and highly respected in Irish academic circles. She has visited this country several times, giving lectures and seminars in Trinity College Dublin among other institutions. As a leading expert in her field, we were highly impressed with the depth and breadth of her scholarship and find it astonishing that she has become the butt of a hate-campaign that appears to be instigated by her own university.

In consequence, we would ask you to immediately retract your statement attacking your colleague, to apologise to Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian for the immense harm you have already caused her, and to take whatever steps are needed to ensure her security and safety in the coming weeks, which your letter has endangered.

Regards

Dr David Landy

On behalf of Academics for Palestine