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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…

Please see the following story from the Trinity News newspaper, which features an interview with Ronit Lentin of Academics for Palestine. Ronit Lentin, a retired associate professor in Trinity’s Department of Sociology, spoke to Trinity News on behalf of Academics for Palestine (AfP), an Irish group committed to the academic boycott of Israel and the…

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Public Lecture: The Ongoing Nakba and the Disintegration of Palestinian Education Lecture by Prof. Jamil Khader Dean of Research, Bethlehem University Dublin Institute of Technology Aungier Street, Room 4-068 6pm WEDNESDAY 03 JUNE 2015 Organised by Academics for Palestine in association with the Friends of Bethlehem University in Ireland

The Friends of Bethlehem University in Ireland, in association with University College Dublin Students’ Union, and the visiting President of the Student Senate of Bethlehem University are pleased to invite you and colleagues to the Irish launch of the film ‘Open Bethlehem’. “One of the most remarkable and moving documentaries I have seen. The tragedy…

On Thursday 16th April 2015, Palestinian academic Dr Bashir Abu-Manneh, who teaches in the University of Kent School of English gave a lecture on the topic of ‘Israel, The Occupation and BDS’. The talk was hosted by Academics for Palestine and the Irish School of Ecumenics in Trinity College Dublin. Below is the full text…

Academics for Palestine, a group of Irish academics – from both the Republic of Ireland and the North of Ireland – set up to create awareness and build the academic boycott of Israel campaign in Ireland, expresses its support for the organisers of the International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism…

Academics for Palestine and the Irish School of Ecumenics invite you to attend the following event: Lecture: ‘Israel, Occupation, Boycott’ Speaker: Dr. Bashir Abu-Manneh (University of Kent) Date: 16 April Time: 6.00pm Location: G16 lecture-room, Irish School of Ecumenics/Loyola Institute Building, Trinity College Dublin (East end of TCD, facing the rugby pitch). Dr. Bashir Abu-Manneh…