Latest AfP news
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AfP Podcast – Episode 1: Introduction and Medieval History
The Academics for Palestine Podcast is a series of roundtable interviews with academics about Palestine, genocides, coloniality and activism. Episode1: Introduction and Medieval History Tá fáilte romhaibh! This is the introduction to the series, hosted by Dr John Reynolds of Maynooth University with guests Dr Emer Purcell of National University of Ireland and Dr Stephen…
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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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Racial Capitalism and Palestine Webinar
AfP Webinar 17 April 10am (Ireland), Racial Capitalism and Palestine JHLPS Special Issue Building on the seminal work by Cedric Robinson, this collection employs racial capitalism in theorising the Zionist colonisation of Palestine and to pinpoint Palestine as centrally relevant to the generation of global analyses of racial capitalism. Ronit Lentin, Sai Englert, Greg Burris…
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Academic Freedom in Context: Complicity, Legal Accountability and Ethical Responsibility
This webinar discusses the legal and ethical responsibilities of Irish universities to divest from Israeli apartheid and genocide and to end all complicity in Israeli crimes committed against the Palestinian people. The speakers will interrogate academic freedom and provide recommendations for Irish universities to ensure their full compliance with international law and human rights. Omar…
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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.…
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AfP Trinity Submission to the Trinity College Dublin Task Force on Academic and Institutional International Links
Executive Summary This submission to the Task Force on Academic and Institutional International Links and Related Matters is made on behalf of Trinity College Dublin Academia for Palestine (AfP TCD), a staff collective who contribute our expertise to support the liberation of Palestine. Rather than seeing our roles within AfP as separate from our work…
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Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians
The following article written featured in The Irish Times written by Dr Barry Cannon – an associate professor in the department of Sociology at Maynooth University and a representative of Academics for Palestine Maynooth University Branch . Prominent Irish politicians – including President Michael D Higgins and Simon Harris – have been accused of anti-Semitism…