Latest AfP news
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Scholasticide talk
Dr Wesam Amer will deliver a talk on scholasticide on Thursday 06 February at 7pm in C104 (first floor Henry Grattan building), Dublin City University Glasnevin Campus. Dr Wesam Amer is a vsiting researcher at Cambridge University; former Fulbright scholar at Harvard University; former Marie Curie fellow at Newcastle University. In the Journal of Palestine Studies,…
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Symposium Information Wars: Journalism, Digital Media and the Narrative on Palestine
The symposium Information Wars: Journalism, Digital Media and the Narrative on Palestine will be held on Friday 07 February in the All Hallows campus of Dublin City University. All Hallows is on the Grace Park Rd, Drumcondra and the symposium will be in the John Hand room (SG05). Speakers: People are welcome to join any session—no registration required.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Gaza and EU complicity: talks in Maynooth, Dublin, Belfast and Cork
The European Elections in Context: EU Complicity in Genocide in Gaza This is a series of public talks by Niamh Ní Bhriain (Transnational Institute), hosted by Research in Ireland for Transformation (RIFT) and organised with AfP. See detailed description below. Monday 27th May, 4 to 6pm MUSSI Seminar Room, Iontas Building, Maynooth University(organised with Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute) Tuesday 28th May, 6 to…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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TCD meeting: 76 Years of Nakba
REGISTRATION IS NO LONGER REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT, AND IT HAS A NEW VENUE Tuesday May 14, 6pm, Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Block, TCD On the eve of Nakba Day 2024, and now 76 years into the ongoing Nakba imposed by Israel against the Palestinian people, join us for an urgent and timely discussion with leading…
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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…
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