Latest AfP news
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Statement in support of organisers of Southampton conference on ‘International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism’
According to a statement released by conference organisers on 31 March, the University of Southampton is withdrawing its consent to host the forthcoming conference ‘International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism’, due to take place on 17-19 April 2015, citing as reasons concerns about ‘health and safety’. Academics for Palestine, a…
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Watch the Debate: Should Academics Boycott Israel? (with Ghada Karmi, Ilan Pappe & Alan Johnston)
Below is the video of the debate organised by Academics for Palestine and hosted by the TCD Irish School of Ecumenics, which took place in Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday 12th November 2014. Speakers supporting the Boycott were Palestinian academic Ghada Karmi and Israeli academic Ilan Pappe, and opposing it was British academic Alan Johnston…
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University Meetings with Dr. Ghada Karmi and Prof. Ilan Pappe on Nov 12 & 13
Academics for Palestine has organised the below meetings on university campuses around Dublin this week with guest speakers Palestinian writer and academic Dr. Ghada Karmi and Israeli historian Prof. Ilan Pappé. This series of college meetings on Wednesday and Thursday this week will examine the role of academics in the struggle for justice in Palestine.…
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Gaza assault has been ‘attack on education’
Irish Academics’ pledge to boycott Israel passes 170 signatories Students, teachers and schools have been targets of Israel’s brutal attacks in Gaza, making it an attack on education as well as a war crime, a group of Irish academics said today — as Israel resumed its attacks on the Palestinian territory. According to the UN…
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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…
