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  • 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…

  • AfP submission on EU research funding for ‘dual-use’ technologies

    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…

  • Deluge: Gaza from crisis to cataclysm

    Deluge: Gaza from crisis to cataclysm

    Thurs 2 May, 6.30pm in TU Dublin, Aungier Street building Deluge is the first major collection on the current Gaza war, edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner of Oxford University and published by OR Books. This event is a public conversation featuring Stern-Weiner; one of its contributors, Clare Daly MEP; and Harry Browne of Academics for Palestine.…

  • Open letter to Micheál Martin about arrest of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

    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…

  • Public Lecture at UCC: Ardi Imseis — ‘The United Nations and the Question of Palestine’

    Public Lecture at UCC: Ardi Imseis — ‘The United Nations and the Question of Palestine’

    Prof Ardi Imseis, Queen’s University, Canada, speaks at 1pm on Friday 26th April in Aras na Laoi (Law School Building) ALG_30, University College Cork The UN has long-claimed that it is the standard-bearer of international law in the world. To what extent does this hold true when it comes to the UN’s management of the question of…

  • Letter to heads of universities throughout Ireland

    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 supports forthcoming National Day of Action on campuses across Ireland, and calls for meaningful action from all third-level institutions

    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…

  • Public Lecture at TCD: Ardi Imseis — ‘Palestine at the UN and the ICJ: Challenging Injustice’

    Public Lecture at TCD: Ardi Imseis — ‘Palestine at the UN and the ICJ: Challenging Injustice’

    Academics for Palestine and Irish Lawyers for Palestine, in association with Academia for Palestine TCD and the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity and Conflict in Trinity College Dublin, are hosting this important public lecture by Ardi Imseis on ‘Palestine at the UN and the ICJ: Challenging Injustice’. In the context of Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza and…

  • UCC statement on the war in Gaza

    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…

  • ‘End silence, cut links’: Trinity College letter to Provost

    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…

  • A Statement by Staff and Students in UCD College of Arts and Humanities for Ceasefire in Gaza

    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…