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Below we are pleased to link to an essay from Dr. Anaheed Al-Hardan, author of the new book Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities, taken from the Columbia University Press website. Dr. Al-Hardan launched her book at an event sponsored by Academics for Palestine in association with the Department of Sociology in Trinity…

David Lloyd, the Distinguished Professor, poet, activist and signatory to both the Irish Academics’ and Irish Artists’ pledges to boycott Israel, has a wonderful piece entitled ‘The Malevolence of Occupation’ in the new issue of the Dublin Review of Books. Below is an excerpt, you can read the full piece here. Above all, boycott is…

On Thursday September 8th 2016 you are invited to spend an unforgettable evening with acclaimed Palestinian author, academic and activist Ghada Karmi as she launches her latest book, ‘Return: A Palestinian Memoir‘ (Verso, 2016). The event, jointly hosted by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Academics for Palestine, will take place in the Ballroom in Wynn’s…

In a letter to the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS), 270 academics from 19 countries have called for the cancellation of the 5th Global Conference on Genocide taking place on 26-29 June at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The letter sent to the organizers of the conference on the 3rd of May points at the…

Academics for Palestine in association with the Irish School of Ecumenics, TCD Invite you to a lecture by  Professor David Lloyd (University of California Riverside) Conditions for Palestinian Scholars in Israel and the West Bank – A Report-Back Tuesday 28 June 2016, 7-9 pm Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin David Lloyd, Distinguished Professor…

Academics for Palestine members Ronit Lentin and David Landy wrote an opinion piece that was published in the Irish Times on Monday 2nd May. Criticising Israel is not the same as being anti-Jewish Opposition to Israel must not be confused with the evil hatred of Jewish people The recent calls to expel former London mayor…

As members of Academics for Palestine in Ireland, we are writing to express our concerns about recent events on Italian university campuses regarding the BDS and PACBI campaigns. We have learnt that after the launch of the “Stop Technion” campaign, which demands revoking research collaborations between Italian universities and the Israeli research centre Technion on…

Academics for Palestine invites you to a lecture on education under occupation, the case of the Palestinian Al Quds University, by Dr Brendan Browne of the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. PLEASE JOIN AND SHARE THE EVENT ON FACEBOOK Precariously located in the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis, Al Quds University is the…

By Ronit Lentin, Academics for Palestine In the wake of the National Women’s Studies Association’s decision to boycott Israel, several members who support Zionism and oppose BDS have called on the NSWA to retract and oppose BDS. Relying on a 1982 article by Letty Pogrebin in Ms Magazine on antisemitism in the women’s movement and…

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has kindly featured the recent Academics For Palestine and Irish School of Ecumenics public meeting on ‘Academic Voices From Palestine: Education Under Occupation’ as part of their ‘Palestine Podcast’ series. If you were unable to make it along to the meeting, you can now listen to the recording of the discussion…

More than 120 academics sign Irish newspaper boycott declaration A letter in today’s Irish Times sees more than 120 Irish and Irish-based academics declare their support for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The scholars said they were “disturbed by the involvement of Israeli higher education institutions in Israel’s military and security industries, by EU…