Category: Statements

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…

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…

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…

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…

Please read and add your name here if you wish to be listed as a signatory when this statement is published. As UCC staff and students, we have watched with horror as Israel has bombarded Gaza for the past four and a half months. As least 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, including a shocking 13,000…

The below letter, signed by over 370 staff members at Trinity College Dublin, was delivered to the Provost of TCD, Linda Doyle, last Thursday, March 7th. The letter asks TCD to end its silence and professed neutrality on Gaza, to condemn the attack on Gaza, support students from the region and cut links with Israeli…

New UCD College of Arts & Humanities signatories can add their names and affiliations to the statement at this link. As staff and students who work and study in UCD College of Arts and Humanities, we join our colleagues and peers from UCD College of Social Sciences and Law in calling on our university to…

New UCD Social Science and Law signatories can add their names and affiliations at this link. We write with grief, more than four months into Israel’s ruthless bombardment of Gaza, and on the heels of the International Court of Justice’s finding that there is a “plausible case of genocide” committed by Israel against the Palestinians…

In the ongoing genocide against Palestinians, educational institutions are being especially targeted. Universities in Gaza have been levelled, those in the West Bank are under siege. Hundreds of academics – college students and lecturers – have been killed. Palestinian academic bodies have asked for meaningful solidarity from their international colleagues against this destruction of Palestinian…

December 2023Over the past two months, people of conscience and organisations in every field around the world have expressed their shared sense of outrage and solidarity in response to the horror that has been unfolding in Palestine. The Israeli military’s bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip has amounted to the most severe onslaught of…

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…

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…