Month: April 2024
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AfP submission on EU research funding for ‘dual-use’ technologies
Academics for Palestine,29 April 2024 Subject: Consultation Response on White Paper ‘On options for enhancing support for research and development involving technologies with dual-use potential’ To Whom It May Concern:We write to provide feedback on the White Paper titled ‘On options for enhancing support for research and development involving technologies with dual-use potential’, at a…
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Deluge: Gaza from crisis to cataclysm
Thurs 2 May, 6.30pm in TU Dublin, Aungier Street building Deluge is the first major collection on the current Gaza war, edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner of Oxford University and published by OR Books. This event is a public conversation featuring Stern-Weiner; one of its contributors, Clare Daly MEP; and Harry Browne of Academics for Palestine.…
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Open letter to Micheál Martin about arrest of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
To sign this letter, complete the form here. To: Micheál Martin, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Dear Minister Martin, We write as academics and scholars in or from Ireland, to seek action in relation to the arrest by Israel on April 18th of our esteemed colleague, Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian of Hebrew University. This comes after…
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Public Lecture at UCC: Ardi Imseis — ‘The United Nations and the Question of Palestine’
Prof Ardi Imseis, Queen’s University, Canada, speaks at 1pm on Friday 26th April in Aras na Laoi (Law School Building) ALG_30, University College Cork The UN has long-claimed that it is the standard-bearer of international law in the world. To what extent does this hold true when it comes to the UN’s management of the question of…
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Letter to heads of universities throughout Ireland
In March 2024, Academics for Palestine and a large number of Irish students’ unions wrote to the executives of higher education institutions – other than the University of Galway, which had already issued a strong statement and commitment to reviewing relationships with Israeli institutions. Our letter, published below, prompted several replies but no further meaningful…
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Academics for Palestine supports forthcoming National Day of Action on campuses across Ireland, and calls for meaningful action from all third-level institutions
Academics for Palestine is supporting the national day of action organised by university staff and students on campuses across the island on 17 April 2024. We endorse the demands being made as part of this initiative on all third-level institutions, on the Department of Further Education, Research, Innovation & Science and the Higher Education Authority…
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Public Lecture at TCD: Ardi Imseis — ‘Palestine at the UN and the ICJ: Challenging Injustice’
Academics for Palestine and Irish Lawyers for Palestine, in association with Academia for Palestine TCD and the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity and Conflict in Trinity College Dublin, are hosting this important public lecture by Ardi Imseis on ‘Palestine at the UN and the ICJ: Challenging Injustice’. In the context of Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza and…
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