AfP Statements

Ireland’s complicity in international crimes must end—and so must the persecution of those demanding that their government meet its obligations… Read more: Shannon Airport: Ireland’s Material Complicity in War Crimes and Genocide Must End

Ireland’s complicity in international crimes must end—and so must the criminalisation of those demanding that their government meet its obligations… Read more: Shannon Airport: Ireland’s Material Complicity in War Crimes and Genocide Must End

With the recent UN report on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the expanded invasion of Gaza City, and the renewal of… Read more: UCD Partnership with Israeli Universities

A group of legal academics from across Ireland, including members of AfP, have called on the Governor of the Central… Read more: Legal academics call on the Central Bank of Ireland to block sale of Israel Bonds

AfP participated in a European call to end complicity in Israel’s genocide. Read the text and signatories list below: To… Read more: Stop European Funding for Israeli Institutions, Stop Complicity in Occupation, Apartheid and Genocide

The following article written by Dr. David Landy was published in The Irish Times on 19th June, 2025. Messages from… Read more: Why academic institutions are cutting ties with Israel

Academics for Palestine (AfP) welcomes today’s historic decision by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) to sever all institutional and commercial links… Read more: Academics for Palestine welcomes Trinity College Dublin decision  to cut ties with Israel 

3 April 2025 This morning (April 3rd, 2025), a student activist at Dublin City University was arrested for peacefully protesting… Read more: Academics for Palestine statement regarding police brutality against students and protestors

The following letter signed by Irish academics was sent to An Taoiseach on April 8th, 2025 A Thaoisigh, On behalf… Read more: Letter to An Taoiseach about erosion of democratic processes in Ireland

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories – Francesca Albanese speaks at Trinity College, Dublin on Thursday March 20th,… Read more: Francesca Albanese – Trinity College, Dublin – Thursday March 20th, 2025

The University of Galway recently signed a new EU-funded project in the area of seawater treatment and green hydrogen production.… Read more: Call for the University of Galway to Fully Withdraw from Partnership with Israel’s Technion

Executive Summary This submission to the Task Force on Academic and Institutional International Links and Related Matters is made on… Read more: AfP Trinity Submission to the Trinity College Dublin Task Force on Academic and Institutional International Links

The following article written featured in The Irish Times written by Dr Barry Cannon – an associate professor in the… Read more: Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians

The following letter was written by Academics for Palestine in response to the government’s proposed adoption of the IHRA definition… Read more: AfP Letter to The Irish Times regarding definition of antisemitism.

On Tuesday December 10th, Maynooth University’s Department of Anthropology hosted a lecture titled ‘Settler Indigeneity in the West Bank’. The… Read more: Joint Maynooth AfP and BDS Statement condemning anthropology seminar “Settler-indigeneity in The West Bank”

The following Op-Ed was published in The Irish Times on October 10th 2024. Written by Dr. Eileen Culloty, DCU School… Read more: Dr. Eileen Culloty: Israel is targeting educational infrastructure in Gaza.

The members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) approved by ballot the rule change previously approved by the… Read more: Trinity AFP welcomes Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) rules change

[To sign this letter, please complete this form. Email in signature must be a UCD or UCD Connect Email. This… Read more: On Gaza: a letter from UCD Engineering & Architecture staff & students to the UMT

UCD Justice for Palestine and Academics for Palestine strongly support the solidarity encampment established by UCD students at Belfield. This… Read more: Statement in support of UCD solidarity encampment

Academics for Palestine strongly support the demands made today by student activists in Maynooth University. In joining the Palestine solidarity… Read more: AfP supports Maynooth students’ solidarity

2. The students obviously. Those goldfish-memoried flibbertigibbets that bounce from cause to cause. In reality, they’ve been consistently campaigning on BDS… Read more: How the Trinity struggle produced a win

Academics for Palestine strongly support the actions taken by student activists in Trinity College Dublin. In joining the Palestine solidarity… Read more: AfP supports Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Dublin

1st May 2024Ms. Ann-Marie Power, Head of Arts & Culture, RTÉ Dear Ms. Power and RTÉ colleagues, As members of the… Read more: Letter from Maynooth English dept staff to RTÉ re exclusion of Rafeef Ziadah

To sign this letter, complete the form here. Irish Third Level Staff Stand with Student Activists for a Free Palestine… Read more: Hands Off Our Students

Academics for Palestine,29 April 2024 Subject: Consultation Response on White Paper ‘On options for enhancing support for research and development… Read more: AfP submission on EU research funding for ‘dual-use’ technologies

To sign this letter, complete the form here. To: Micheál Martin, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Dear Minister Martin,… Read more: Open letter to Micheál Martin about arrest of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

In March 2024, Academics for Palestine and a large number of Irish students’ unions wrote to the executives of higher… Read more: Letter to heads of universities throughout Ireland

Academics for Palestine is supporting the national day of action organised by university staff and students on campuses across the… Read more: Academics for Palestine supports forthcoming National Day of Action on campuses across Ireland, and calls for meaningful action from all third-level institutions

Please read and add your name here if you wish to be listed as a signatory when this statement is… Read more: UCC statement on the war in Gaza

The below letter, signed by over 370 staff members at Trinity College Dublin, was delivered to the Provost of TCD,… Read more: ‘End silence, cut links’: Trinity College letter to Provost

New UCD College of Arts & Humanities signatories can add their names and affiliations to the statement at this link.… Read more: A Statement by Staff and Students in UCD College of Arts and Humanities for Ceasefire in Gaza

New UCD Social Science and Law signatories can add their names and affiliations at this link. We write with grief,… Read more: On Violence in Gaza – A Statement by Staff and Students in UCD College of Social Sciences and Law

In the ongoing genocide against Palestinians, educational institutions are being especially targeted. Universities in Gaza have been levelled, those in… Read more: Academics for Palestine TCD response to ‘IFUT Statement on the Middle East’

December 2023Over the past two months, people of conscience and organisations in every field around the world have expressed their… Read more: Statement of Solidarity with Palestinians from members of the university community in Maynooth

17th November 2023 A letter organised by Academics for Palestine and signed by over 600 scholars calling on universities in Ireland… Read more: Academics for Palestine statement on academic boycott & academic freedom

The letter below was published by the Irish Times on 4 November 2023 with 633 signatures that had been collected… Read more: Letter to Irish newspapers, November 2023

Prof Asher Cohen, President, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof Tamir Sheafer, Rector, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 3 November 2023 Dear… Read more: Letter to Hebrew University re Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Academics for Palestine is one of the groups affiliated to the Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for Palestine. Below is the campaign’s statement… Read more: Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for Palestine statement