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On 27 April 2023, Law for Palestine published the report “Israel’s Arrest Policy against Palestinian University Students (in the West Bank and Israel): A Tool for Eroding Palestinian National Identity and Consolidating Israeli Colonialism”. The report, prepared by Ihsan Adel and Maha Loulou, with field work by Shaima Khalil, addresses Israel’s systematic weaponization of student…

Dear UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Under Secretary-General Miguel Ángel Moratinos: Our coalition of 104 civil society organizations is writing to you to voice our strong support for the United Nations’ commitment to combatting antisemitism in line with international human rights standards. Antisemitism is a pernicious ideology that poses real harm to Jewish communities around the world…

We are publishing, below, letters from PACBI and from Academics for Palestine to recipients of Israel’s Dan David Prize for history scholars, asking that they do not accept it. Our own letter is addressed specifically to Dr Anita Radini of UCD’s School of Archaeology, the only Irish-based recipient. We reached out as a way to…

As part of the widespread protests against the Israeli government’s plans to reform the judicial system and move Israel’s regime further towards a right-wing dictatorial system, and in specific response to the dismissal of the Minister for Defence by Prime Minister Netanyahu, the heads of Israel’s universities and research institutions decided to suspend classes indefinitely.…

Academics for Palestine condemns the recent raids by Israeli forces on Palestinian human-rights organisations – the brutal and inevitable follow-up to last autumn’s designation of the NGOs as terrorist entities. As we noted last year when we urged AfP supporters to email Irish and international officials to protest the ominous development, the organisations have received…

In February 2022, Amnesty International published its extensive report asserting that Israel enforces a system of apartheid over the Palestinian people. Amnesty International is the largest global human rights organisation, with over 10 million members worldwide. Its conclusions and condemnations of Israeli apartheid are significant. Academics for Palestine joins Palestinian civil society and solidarity movements…

A European coalition of more than 100 civil society organisations, has launched a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) to stop trade with illegal settlements in occupied territories. Academics for Palestine is a partner of the Irish ECI campaign, along with other 20 Ireland-based social and cultural organisations. An ECI is an official instrument for democratic participation…

To: Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs simon.coveney@oireachtas.ie Thomas Byrne TD, Minister of State for EU Affairs Thomas.Byrne@oireachtas.ie Colm Brophy TD, Minister of State for Overseas Development Aid Colm.Brophy@oireachtas.ie cc: Mary Lawlor, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders defenders@ohchr.org Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental…

Seamus Deane, who died on May 12 last, was Ireland’s greatest literary critic since the days of Yeats and O’Faolain.   Like them, he was not only a poet, a novelist, a teacher and a scholar, but an intellectual. Universities are full of academics.  Only a handful of them can be called intellectuals, who generalise out from…

“We should not remain silent about injustice, about oppression, the suppression of freedoms, and political arrests,” Palestian activist Muna El-Kurd said in her graduation speech at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank last week. Weeks earlier, 23-year old Muna and her twin brother Muhammed were arrested by the Israeli security forces and taken in handcuffs…

In response to the call from Palestinian civil society for an institutional academic boycott of Israel, we pledge not to engage in any professional association with Israeli academic, research and state institutions and with those representing these institutions, until such time as Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights. Name Discipline…

On 22 April 2021, Academics for Palestine and the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, organised the online launch of Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel, edited by our members David Landy, Ronit Lentin and Conor McCarthy. Speakers: Yara Harawi University of Exeter, Senior Analyst at Al-Shabaka;…