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“We should not remain silent about injustice, about oppression, the suppression of freedoms, and political arrests,” Palestian activist Muna El-Kurd said in her graduation speech at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank last week. Weeks earlier, 23-year old Muna and her twin brother Muhammed were arrested by the Israeli security forces and taken in handcuffs…

In response to the call from Palestinian civil society for an institutional academic boycott of Israel, we pledge not to engage in any professional association with Israeli academic, research and state institutions and with those representing these institutions, until such time as Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights. Name Discipline…

On 22 April 2021, Academics for Palestine and the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, organised the online launch of Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel, edited by our members David Landy, Ronit Lentin and Conor McCarthy. Speakers: Yara Harawi University of Exeter, Senior Analyst at Al-Shabaka;…

John Reynolds, Associate Professor of International Law at Maynooth University and an active member of Academics for Palestine, in the Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/discrimination-against-palestinians-constitutes-apartheid-1.4549053 In 1961, Hendrik Verwoerd declared that ‘Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state’. As an architect of apartheid, and South African Prime Minister at the time, he spoke from a position…

This important event will be on Zoom at this link: https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/6576059321

We in Academics for Palestine stand in solidarity with those protesting racist violence and injustice, particularly our colleagues in the USA as well as our comrades of colour who are leading the anti-racist movements here in Ireland.  We denounce anti-black racism everywhere, in all its forms, including that which gave rise to the recent US…

Tuesday 15th October 2019, Robert Emmet lecture Hall, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin Sadaka, Academics for Palestine, and TCD’s MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict invite you to celebrate the Irish launch of Noura Erakat’s bestselling new book, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. This promises to be an illuminating and inspiring evening…

Authoritative Palestinian academic bodies are calling on states, academic institutions, multilateral research bodies and international academics not to recognize Ariel University and to refrain from any institutional relations with it. Ariel University is an illegal institution, and is deeply and directly complicit in Israel’s system of oppression that has denied Palestinians their basic rights guaranteed…

As part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2019, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Academics for Palestine are proud to host acclaimed journalist and author Ben White for an evening of discussion about his latest book Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel (Pluto, 2018). Ben will speak on Thursday 28th February 2019 in the Academy…

Public Lecture: Critiquing Zionism: A Palestinian Standpoint with Dr. Nimer Sultany 7pm, Wednesday 26th March 2019 Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin All welcome Israel’s 2018 Nation-State Basic Law, which constitutionalises Jewish supremacy, has been explained away by some as a mere aberration from Zionism’s liberal ideals. This talk will revisit early…