Category: Statements

  • Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians

    Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians

    The following article written featured in The Irish Times written by Dr Barry Cannon – an associate professor in the department of Sociology at Maynooth University and a representative of Academics for Palestine Maynooth University Branch . Prominent Irish politicians – including President Michael D Higgins and Simon Harris – have been accused of anti-Semitism…

  • AfP Letter to The Irish Times regarding definition of antisemitism.

    The following letter was written by Academics for Palestine in response to the government’s proposed adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Sir, – We write in response to the draft programme for government agreed by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Independents which states that it will “Give effect to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance…

  • Joint Maynooth AfP and BDS Statement condemning anthropology seminar “Settler-indigeneity in The West Bank”

    On Tuesday December 10th, Maynooth University’s Department of Anthropology hosted a lecture titled ‘Settler Indigeneity in the West Bank’. The blurb of this talk notes how ‘indigeneity has become an identity and political resource within the context of Israeli settlements in the contested West Bank territories’. The West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and Gaza,…

  • Dr. Eileen Culloty: Israel is targeting educational infrastructure in Gaza.

    The following Op-Ed was published in The Irish Times on October 10th 2024. Written by Dr. Eileen Culloty, DCU School of Communications, it highlights the case for academic boycott of Israel in the the context of ongoing genocide and scholasticide in Palestine and details Dublin City University’s involvement with Israeli partner institutions through the EU-GLOCTER…

  • Trinity AFP welcomes Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) rules change

    The members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) approved by ballot the rule change previously approved by the union’s delegates at the May 2024 annual conference, adding social justice, “the promotion of equity, justice and equality in both the workplace and broader society” into the objects of the Union. Proposed by the Maynooth…

  • On Gaza: a letter from UCD Engineering & Architecture staff & students to the UMT

    [To sign this letter, please complete this form. Email in signature must be a UCD or UCD Connect Email. This will only be used in order to verify you are a member of the UCD community and will not be shared or used in any other context. Google will automatically send you an email confirming…

  • Statement in support of UCD solidarity encampment

    UCD Justice for Palestine and Academics for Palestine strongly support the solidarity encampment established by UCD students at Belfield. This comes especially light of wide-ranging commitments made by Trinity College Dublin to fully divest from complicit Israeli companies and review all ties with Israeli institutions, following principled student and staff activism which led university management…

  • AfP supports Maynooth students’ solidarity

    Academics for Palestine strongly support the demands made today by student activists in Maynooth University. In joining the Palestine solidarity actions that have spread across university campuses in the United States, France, Australia, Britain, India, Brazil, Tunisia, Netherlands, German, Japan and beyond, these students are showing a degree of moral courage and leadership that has…

  • How the Trinity struggle produced a win

    2. The students obviously. Those goldfish-memoried flibbertigibbets that bounce from cause to cause. In reality, they’ve been consistently campaigning on BDS since at least 2015 2/14  They’ve been building skills and passing on institutional memories, absorbing setbacks and college sanctions, and winning victories – SU divestment, SU support for BDS, college divestment from weapons companies 3/14 …

  • AfP supports Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Dublin

    Academics for Palestine strongly support the actions taken by student activists in Trinity College Dublin. In joining the Palestine solidarity encampments that have spread across university campuses in the United States, France, Australia, Britain, India, Tunisia, Japan and beyond, these students are showing a degree of moral courage and leadership that has been distinctly lacking…

  • Letter from Maynooth English dept staff to RTÉ re exclusion of Rafeef Ziadah

    1st May 2024Ms. Ann-Marie Power, Head of Arts & Culture, RTÉ Dear Ms. Power and RTÉ colleagues, As members of the English Department at Maynooth University, we write to express our concern at what we have learned of the decision last month to have RTÉ Radio 1’s flagship arts and culture programme Arena rescind the possibility of an…

  • Hands Off Our Students

    To sign this letter, complete the form here. Irish Third Level Staff Stand with Student Activists for a Free Palestine As members of staff in Irish third level education, we want to express our concern at recent institutional responses to student activism against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. We stand in solidarity with student activists…