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Academics for Palestine – Press Conference (20/02/2014)
Video from the launch of Academics for Palestine on Thursday 20th February 2014.
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Irish links with Israeli military and security firms revealed
Irish academic researchers collaborated in EU-funded projects with Israeli counterparts who make drones, develop high-tech weapons and engage in “counter-terror” activities with the Mossad (Israel’s spy organisation), it was revealed today. In all, Irish universities have collaborated with Israel in 257 projects to date, seven of them listed as “security” and 13 as “aerospace”. These…
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Irish Academics’ Pledge to Boycott Israel
Since 2014, more than 600 academics in or from Ireland have signed a pledge, organised by Academia for Palestine, to support an academic boycott of Israeli institutions until Palestinian rights are respected. The pledge reads as follows: “In response to the call from Palestinian civil society for an institutional academic boycott of Israel, we pledge…
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Academia Against Apartheid – The case for an academic boycott of Israel
Read the pamphlet, Academia Against Apartheid – The case for an academic boycott of Israel, here Responding to the Palestinian call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, a group of concerned academics in Ireland has begun a campaign to urge Irish-based academics to support the boycott, which is intended to last until Israeli academia ends…
