A motion calling for an SU referendum that would ask students whether they would want the SU to campaign for College to cut its ties to Israeli third-level institutions is to be raised at tonight’s SU council meeting, Trinity News …
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Campaign calls for end to TCD “complicity” in apartheid
A new student campaign is calling on College to cut its links with institutions and companies that support the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. In an online petition created today, the ‘TCD Apartheid-Free Campus Campaign’ says it …
Over 170 academics pledge to boycott Israel
Group describes Israeli actions as “an attack on education itself”
James Wilson
News Editor
The campaign for an academic boycott of Israel is gathering momentum after a petition started by a pro-Palestinian group, Academics for Palestine, garnered over 170 signatures from teaching staff at third level institutions both north and …
Let’s not pick sides on Israel-Palestine
Ryan Connolly
Contributor
I have always found it difficult to understand why the unending debate surrounding Israel and Palestine is one of the most heated and controversial of our time. No other on-going conflict anywhere in the world seems to …
Trinity academics collaborated with Israeli drone manufacturer
Irish academics participated in EU-funded aerospace and security projects with Israeli manufacturers of drones and weapons, members of the Academics for Palestine (AfP) organisation have claimed. AfP’s investigation into Irish-Israeli research links found that Irish universities collaborated with Israeli institutions …