Academics for Palestine
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Supporting education and justice in Palestine, and building the academic boycott of Israel campaign in Ireland.
Ireland
Joined March 2020
We are committed to education & justice in Palestine, and building the academic boycott of Israel campaign in Ireland. If you are an academic based on the island of Ireland or an Irish academic abroad and would like to sign our pledge, please contact us:
academicsforpalestine.org
Since 2014, more than 600 academics in or from Ireland have signed a pledge, organised by Academics for Palestine, to support an academic boycott of Israeli institutions until Palestinian rights ar…
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Birzeit University Under Attack: Fifth Invasion Amid Ongoing Genocide and Scholasticide
right2edu.birzeit.edu
At midnight of September 22, 2025, Israeli occupation forces once again stormed Birzeit University. Israeli Soldiers violently assaulted campus guards before raiding several university buildings, i…
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'Gala for Gaza' fundraiser, Galway October 4th. Public raffle here, which has some great prizes: https://t.co/ViPD09y4Ke Please support if you can - all proceeds going to two fantastic charities - Gaza go Bragh and Children Not Numbers. Saoirse don Phalaistín.
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BREAKING | Local sources report that Israeli occupation forces are storming Birzeit University near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank from all its gates. Some say they are detaining the university's security personnel.
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Sally Rooney won the Sky Arts award for literature for Intermezzo. Her editor collected it for her as she couldn't travel in case of arrest for her support for Palestine Action. "to reiterate.... and my solidarity with the people of Palestine." We are proud of her always. #BDS
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A woman beheaded by an Israeli strike, nine months pregnant. “We had to deliver her by emergency C-section… luckily, the baby girl survived.”
🚨 Australian Doctors in Gaza: “Healthcare Is Not Collapsing — It Has Collapsed” Dr. Nada Abu Alrub and Dr. Saya Aziz, two Australian doctors volunteering in northern Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, have released a harrowing video describing mass death under relentless bombardment.
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Students and staff express outrage at university's links to the genocide unfolding in #Gaza
#GazaGenocide
#Galway
@MiddleEastMnt
@AcaforPalestine
https://t.co/zHRQIpP1hw
ciarantierney.medium.com
Students and staff members marched through the University of Galway’s quadrangle early on Monday morning. Photo by Ciaran Tierney
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"Break all ties with Israel" @uniofgalway and complicity in the #GazaGenocide
#Galway
@ipsc48 @SadakaIreland @AcaforPalestine @TechnionLive
https://t.co/Kw1biwKyZO
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"We repeat our demands that UCD end its current partnerships with Israeli universities, commit to refusing any future such partnerships, and to join efforts that seek to exclude Israeli universities from European funding initiatives." @AcaforPalestine
https://t.co/inLbceb0o3
academicsforpalestine.org
With the recent UN report on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the expanded invasion of Gaza City, and the renewal of campus activism at UCD, we are publishing a letter written to UCD President Orla…
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Our letter to UCD & president Orla Feely from earlier this month. We await their response.
academicsforpalestine.org
With the recent UN report on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the expanded invasion of Gaza City, and the renewal of campus activism at UCD, we are publishing a letter written to UCD President Orla…
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The Israeli defence ministry can keep getting EU science grants despite blowing up Gaza's largest university on Monday, but anti-Israel cultural boycotts were "antisemitism", the EU Commission has said. https://t.co/gtPR0cdg1h
euobserver.com
The Israeli defence ministry can keep getting EU science grants despite blowing up Gaza's main university, but anti-Israel cultural boycotts were "antisemitism," the EU Commission said.
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Two years of genocide, confirmed by the UN, all the European Commission comes up with is a partial suspension of trade concessions with apartheid Israel. Disgracefully Kaya Kallas said: "The aim is not to punish Israel, the aim is to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza."
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I'm extremely pleased that we managed to get @tcddublin to lead by example and be the first on the island of Ireland to do this. Other Irish universities must follow suit - shamefully two forged new Israeli academic ties via Horizon2020 this year! https://t.co/i6zl1TGhj7
theguardian.com
Educational bodies from Europe to South America are boycotting Israeli institutions, though Universities UK said it did not support the action
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Translation: In the last 2 days, Israel has destroyed 50 large buildings where people lived and worked. The man delivering this message is an indicted war criminal.
PM Netanyahu at the Air Force Command Center: "In the last two days, we have taken down 50 terrorist high-rises, and this is only the beginning of the ground operation in Gaza City. I say to the residents of Gaza: You have been warned; Get out of there!" https://t.co/Pf3f9QljWP
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for absolute shame
My latest: University College Dublin teams up again with Israel's Technion
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The Israeli military is detonating Gaza City’s schools used as shelters by displaced families in order to depopulate the city. This is Fourqan elementary school in the Zaytoun neighborhood.
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The Israeli military is continuing to detonate all remaining Palestinian universities in Gaza as part of its scholasticide. This is the University College of Science and Technology in Khan Yunis.
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The reason Palestinians could name it as a genocide so early was because we understood #Nakba and the reason it could take 22 months of horror and atrocity before others would agree with us is precisely because of the Nakba’s elision. #Gaza #Genocide
pbs.org
The determination by the International Association of Genocide Scholars could serve to further isolate Israel in global public opinion and adds to a growing chorus of organizations that have used the...
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I really don't understand the thinking that SUs are some sort of lesser representation I represent more people than any GCC councillor and got more votes than any of them too, but yet they and their constituents get the respect they deserve
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We will still be at the Central Bank tomorrow, to mark this big moment for our campaign and to reiterate the demand for an end to all Irish state complicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide against Palestinians. No genocide bonds here or anywhere. #StopFundingGenocide
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Utrecht University rector: "The call by demonstrating students+staff has been heard. We have effectively stopped all institutional collaborations with Israeli parties & will not start any new collaborations; a boycott is in place until further notice" https://t.co/aQVbt4fIp7
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