Category: Statements
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Open Letter on the Denial of Visas to Gazan Students
In response to the denial of visa for incoming Palestinian students, the upcoming Al-Hadinah Al-Fikriya conference due to take place in Maynooth University in October 2026 has been postponed. Please see a full statement below. Open Letter on the Denial of Visas to Gazan Students August 29, 2026 We write as members of the Al-Hadinah al-Fikriyya collective, a…
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Shannon Airport: Ireland’s Material Complicity in War Crimes and Genocide Must End
Ireland’s complicity in international crimes must end—and so must the persecution of those demanding that their government meet its obligations under Irish and international law. Across the island of Ireland, a mass movement of people has mobilised in solidarity with the Palestinian people, demanding an end to the ongoing genocide and Israel’s settler colonial apartheid…
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Shannon Airport: Ireland’s Material Complicity in War Crimes and Genocide Must End
Ireland’s complicity in international crimes must end—and so must the criminalisation of those demanding that their government meet its obligations under Irish and international law. Across the island of Ireland, a mass movement of people has mobilised in solidarity with the Palestinian people, demanding an end to the ongoing genocide and Israel’s settler colonial apartheid…
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UCD Partnership with Israeli Universities
With the recent UN report on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the expanded invasion of Gaza City, and the renewal of campus activism at UCD, we are publishing a letter written to UCD President Orla Feely expressing our opposition to continued UCD partnerships with complicit Israeli universities such as Technion. We renew our call for UCD…
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Legal academics call on the Central Bank of Ireland to block sale of Israel Bonds
A group of legal academics from across Ireland, including members of AfP, have called on the Governor of the Central Bank to immediately prohibit the marketing and sale of Israeli state bonds in or from Ireland, and to refuse to re-approve the bond prospectus on the renewal date of 2 September. In a letter sent on…
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Stop European Funding for Israeli Institutions, Stop Complicity in Occupation, Apartheid and Genocide
AfP participated in a European call to end complicity in Israel’s genocide. Read the text and signatories list below: To Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission To Mr. António Costa, President of the European Council To Ms. Kaja Kallas, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President, To…
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Why academic institutions are cutting ties with Israel
The following article written by Dr. David Landy was published in The Irish Times on 19th June, 2025. Messages from colleagues from Gaza and the displaced Palestinian students on our campuses have been the driving force for many of us My university, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), decided not to renew institutional links or sign new…
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Academics for Palestine welcomes Trinity College Dublin decision to cut ties with Israel
Academics for Palestine (AfP) welcomes today’s historic decision by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) to sever all institutional and commercial links with Israeli organisations and universities as an important step towards “rejecting the normalisation of Israel’s decades-long occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide” against the people of Palestine. The decision follows a vote by Trinity’s governing…
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Academics for Palestine statement regarding police brutality against students and protestors
3 April 2025 This morning (April 3rd, 2025), a student activist at Dublin City University was arrested for peacefully protesting the Irish government’s lack of action on Palestine, and facilitation of logistical support for genocide through the Irish airspace and Shannon airport. This comes mere days after the shameful spectacle of gardaí violently suppressing a…
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Letter to An Taoiseach about erosion of democratic processes in Ireland
The following letter signed by Irish academics was sent to An Taoiseach on April 8th, 2025 A Thaoisigh, On behalf of the undersigned academics and university workers we write to express our deep concern at a number of recent events that mark the cumulative erosion of democratic freedoms, accountability and the rule of law in…
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Francesca Albanese – Trinity College, Dublin – Thursday March 20th, 2025
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories – Francesca Albanese speaks at Trinity College, Dublin on Thursday March 20th, 2025 Introduced by David Landy and organised by Academics for Palestine.
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Call for the University of Galway to Fully Withdraw from Partnership with Israel’s Technion
The University of Galway recently signed a new EU-funded project in the area of seawater treatment and green hydrogen production. The more than €3 million project led by the University of Galway includes the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, which is deeply embedded and complicit in Israel’s regime of apartheid, illegal colonial settlement, and occupation.…