Latest AfP news
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Webinar: Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine
Join us online for this special webinar to discuss Nick Riemer’s important new book on Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation With author Dr. Nick Riemer (University of Sydney) and readers Dr. Yara Hawari (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network) and Dr. Brendan Browne (Trinity College Dublin). Hosted by Academics for Palestine and…
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UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese at TCD June 20th
Self-determination under occupation: the enduring reality in (what remains) of Palestine Maxwell Theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College Dublin, 6.30pm Eventbrite registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/public-lecture-by-un-special-rapporteur-on-palestine-francesca-albanese-tickets-650374787497 Join us for this special lecture from an important human-rights figure, organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for Palestine, Academics for Palestine, and Sadaka, with TCD’s MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict.…
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Report on Israel’s arrest policy against Palestinian university students
On 27 April 2023, Law for Palestine published the report “Israel’s Arrest Policy against Palestinian University Students (in the West Bank and Israel): A Tool for Eroding Palestinian National Identity and Consolidating Israeli Colonialism”. The report, prepared by Ihsan Adel and Maha Loulou, with field work by Shaima Khalil, addresses Israel’s systematic weaponization of student…
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Civil society letter to UN on defining antisemitism
Dear UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Under Secretary-General Miguel Ángel Moratinos: Our coalition of 104 civil society organizations is writing to you to voice our strong support for the United Nations’ commitment to combatting antisemitism in line with international human rights standards. Antisemitism is a pernicious ideology that poses real harm to Jewish communities around the world…
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The Dan David Prize and the academic boycott
We are publishing, below, letters from PACBI and from Academics for Palestine to recipients of Israel’s Dan David Prize for history scholars, asking that they do not accept it. Our own letter is addressed specifically to Dr Anita Radini of UCD’s School of Archaeology, the only Irish-based recipient. We reached out as a way to…
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AfP statement on recent protests in Israel
As part of the widespread protests against the Israeli government’s plans to reform the judicial system and move Israel’s regime further towards a right-wing dictatorial system, and in specific response to the dismissal of the Minister for Defence by Prime Minister Netanyahu, the heads of Israel’s universities and research institutions decided to suspend classes indefinitely.…
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Attacks on Palestinian NGOs: AfP statement
Academics for Palestine condemns the recent raids by Israeli forces on Palestinian human-rights organisations – the brutal and inevitable follow-up to last autumn’s designation of the NGOs as terrorist entities. As we noted last year when we urged AfP supporters to email Irish and international officials to protest the ominous development, the organisations have received…
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AfP statement on Israeli apartheid
In February 2022, Amnesty International published its extensive report asserting that Israel enforces a system of apartheid over the Palestinian people. Amnesty International is the largest global human rights organisation, with over 10 million members worldwide. Its conclusions and condemnations of Israeli apartheid are significant. Academics for Palestine joins Palestinian civil society and solidarity movements…
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Public Lecture 29/3/22: Michael Lynk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine
International Law, the Israeli Occupation of Palestine and the Question of Apartheid 6pm, Tuesday 29th March 2022 Thomas Davis Theatre, Room 2043, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin Academics for Palestine, Sadaka, and TCD’s MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict are pleased to invite you to a public lecture by Michael Lynk, the current United Nations Special…
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New European Citizens Initiative aims to push the EU to ban trade with illegal settlements
A European coalition of more than 100 civil society organisations, has launched a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) to stop trade with illegal settlements in occupied territories. Academics for Palestine is a partner of the Irish ECI campaign, along with other 20 Ireland-based social and cultural organisations. An ECI is an official instrument for democratic participation…
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Suggested email in response to Israeli attack on human-rights NGOs
To: Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs simon.coveney@oireachtas.ie Thomas Byrne TD, Minister of State for EU Affairs Thomas.Byrne@oireachtas.ie Colm Brophy TD, Minister of State for Overseas Development Aid Colm.Brophy@oireachtas.ie cc: Mary Lawlor, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders defenders@ohchr.org Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental…
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Seamus Deane and Palestine
Seamus Deane, who died on May 12 last, was Ireland’s greatest literary critic since the days of Yeats and O’Faolain. Like them, he was not only a poet, a novelist, a teacher and a scholar, but an intellectual. Universities are full of academics. Only a handful of them can be called intellectuals, who generalise out from…
