Latest AfP news
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John Reynolds in TCD, Feb 29 at 6pm
International law expert and AfP activist Dr John Reynolds will deliver a talk in Trinity College next week on South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. The lecture, titled “Israel in the Dock for Genocide: The significance of the case at the International Court of Justice”, will take place in the…
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On Violence in Gaza – A Statement by Staff and Students in UCD College of Social Sciences and Law
New UCD Social Science and Law signatories can add their names and affiliations at this link. We write with grief, more than four months into Israel’s ruthless bombardment of Gaza, and on the heels of the International Court of Justice’s finding that there is a “plausible case of genocide” committed by Israel against the Palestinians…
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Academics for Palestine TCD response to ‘IFUT Statement on the Middle East’
In the ongoing genocide against Palestinians, educational institutions are being especially targeted. Universities in Gaza have been levelled, those in the West Bank are under siege. Hundreds of academics – college students and lecturers – have been killed. Palestinian academic bodies have asked for meaningful solidarity from their international colleagues against this destruction of Palestinian…
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Statement of Solidarity with Palestinians from members of the university community in Maynooth
December 2023Over the past two months, people of conscience and organisations in every field around the world have expressed their shared sense of outrage and solidarity in response to the horror that has been unfolding in Palestine. The Israeli military’s bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip has amounted to the most severe onslaught of…
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Friends of Birzeit University briefing
A first report from Friends of Birzeit University on the right to education in Palestine in the aftermath of the Israeli war on Gaza and the Palestinians.A summary of the report’s findings on the situation since 7 October: Background – the situation before 7 October: The right to education is enshrined in international law, including…
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Online seminar: Collective Punishment, Genocide and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine
The Maynooth University Research Centre in International Justice and the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute are organising an online expert panel entitled Collective Punishment, Genocide and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine. This event will take place 5-7pm GMT on Wednesday 22nd November 2023. The speakers are: This event is also supported by Academics for Palestine (national and…
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Academics for Palestine statement on academic boycott & academic freedom
17th November 2023 A letter organised by Academics for Palestine and signed by over 600 scholars calling on universities in Ireland to sever any existing institutional partnerships or affiliations with Israeli institutions was published in The Irish Times on 4th November 2023. That letter remains open for signature by academics and scholars in or from Ireland via the Academics for Palestine website, and…
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Letter to Irish newspapers, November 2023
The letter below was published by the Irish Times on 4 November 2023 with 633 signatures that had been collected by 5pm on 2 November. Further signatures are again being collected for adding here – the number now stands at more than 950. We write as academics and scholars in or from Ireland. The scale…
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Letter to Hebrew University re Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Prof Asher Cohen, President, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof Tamir Sheafer, Rector, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 3 November 2023 Dear Professors Cohen and Sheafer, I am writing to you on behalf of Academics for Palestine, an affiliation of academics in Ireland who have ties to Palestine and who act in solidarity with Palestinian academics. We…
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Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for Palestine statement
Academics for Palestine is one of the groups affiliated to the Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for Palestine. Below is the campaign’s statement on recent events and the way forward, representing an important consensus position from across a wide range of groups and aimed at having a wide impact. Please share widely. Statement by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for…
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Maynooth meeting: Gaza in context
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Online Teach Out on Palestine
Registration link – After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
