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See below for a letter sent by Academics for Palestine to Chaplains in Trinity College Dublin regarding the upcoming “staff peace pilgrimage to Israel and Palestine” which is an exercise in ‘normalisation’, that aims to create a false equivalency between the occupier and occupied, whitewashing the Israeli occupation and depicting it as a ‘conflict’ between…

This weekend Queen’s University Belfast is holding a joint event with the Faculty of Law in Haifa University, an institution that, according to its website, has “a unique partnership with the Israel Defence Forces whereby the IDF’s future leadership and the decision-makers of tomorrow study in our prestigious Havatzalot project for select members of the…

Re: Minister of State John Halligan’s visit to Palestine-Israel and meeting with the Israeli Minister of Education Naftai Bennett Dear Minister Halligan, We write with regard to your trip to Palestine-Israel and, in particular, the disturbing report of your appointment to meet Israel’s Minister for Education Naftali Bennet. We call on you as a representative…

On September 8th last, Academics for Palestine and our colleagues in the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign were honoured to host the amazing Palestinian academic, author and activist Ghada Karmi in Dublin. Taking time out of a conference in Trinity College Dublin, Ghada launched her latest book ‘Return: A Palestinian Memoir’ in Wynn’s Hotel to a large…

Below we are pleased to link to an essay from Dr. Anaheed Al-Hardan, author of the new book Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities, taken from the Columbia University Press website. Dr. Al-Hardan launched her book at an event sponsored by Academics for Palestine in association with the Department of Sociology in Trinity…

David Lloyd, the Distinguished Professor, poet, activist and signatory to both the Irish Academics’ and Irish Artists’ pledges to boycott Israel, has a wonderful piece entitled ‘The Malevolence of Occupation’ in the new issue of the Dublin Review of Books. Below is an excerpt, you can read the full piece here. Above all, boycott is…

On Thursday September 8th 2016 you are invited to spend an unforgettable evening with acclaimed Palestinian author, academic and activist Ghada Karmi as she launches her latest book, ‘Return: A Palestinian Memoir‘ (Verso, 2016). The event, jointly hosted by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Academics for Palestine, will take place in the Ballroom in Wynn’s…

In a letter to the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS), 270 academics from 19 countries have called for the cancellation of the 5th Global Conference on Genocide taking place on 26-29 June at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The letter sent to the organizers of the conference on the 3rd of May points at the…

Academics for Palestine in association with the Irish School of Ecumenics, TCD Invite you to a lecture by  Professor David Lloyd (University of California Riverside) Conditions for Palestinian Scholars in Israel and the West Bank – A Report-Back Tuesday 28 June 2016, 7-9 pm Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin David Lloyd, Distinguished Professor…

Academics for Palestine members Ronit Lentin and David Landy wrote an opinion piece that was published in the Irish Times on Monday 2nd May. Criticising Israel is not the same as being anti-Jewish Opposition to Israel must not be confused with the evil hatred of Jewish people The recent calls to expel former London mayor…

As members of Academics for Palestine in Ireland, we are writing to express our concerns about recent events on Italian university campuses regarding the BDS and PACBI campaigns. We have learnt that after the launch of the “Stop Technion” campaign, which demands revoking research collaborations between Italian universities and the Israeli research centre Technion on…