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Our letter asking Irish universities to cut ties with Israeli institutions has been published by the Irish Times and has the usual voices – Brigid Laffan, Eoin O’Malley etc – attacking it.
Before responding, I want to thank the hundreds of academics who signed. Solidarity❤️1/9
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Another day, another Oliver Sears article in the Irish Times saying that Palestine solidarity is racist. I've some doubts they'll print my reply letter, so here it is
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This is fascinating. We're witnessing the creation of an antisemitic trope in real time.
Octopuses, obviously, were never antisemitic tropes before now, but they will become so if these ghouls keep pointing them out as such
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Some thoughts on the Trinity encampment for Palestine
1. We won! We actually won something! A strange feeling. Not only did we win, but we took the win. How did this happen? 1/14
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It's so comforting to have the German government lecturing me on antisemitism. This Irish Jew would be arrested in Germany, just as they've arrested other Jews protesting their support for genocide
"Anticolonialism must not lead to antisemitism" - an important and timely reminder from Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, both for Germany and Ireland.
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Today in Trinity we'll be remembering the thousands of students and academic that Israel has killed, as part of the nationwide universities day of solidarity with Palestine
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God, this is so hard to see. I know Zak, he's a lovely funny man, always a pleasure whenever I met him, a real gentleman. That he's in such pain, such terror for his family, it's unbearable
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Good luck to one of my former students, Sean Binder, facing imprisonment in Greece today, for the crime of rescuing people from drowning
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Once again, Germany is on the wrong side of genocide. It is leading the EU support of Israel, arming Israel's genocidal attack and repressing Germans who stand against it
Jews for Palestine will be protesting genocide next Tuesday. At the German Embassy
Please join us
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My university, Trinity College Dublin, invests part of its endowment fund in Bank Leumi. This bank, by freezing UNWRA's bank accounts and seeking to prevent it providing aid to Gazans, is directly participating in the genocide.
Trinity needs to end these links with Israel now
Since the start of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza the European Investment Bank, the EU’s lending arm, has signed off on €650m in loans for Israeli infrastructure projects.
Bank Leumi, which last week froze UNWRA’s bank accounts, was given a €250m EIB loan six weeks ago.
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Our
@JewishPeace
protest at the German embassy. Our sign said 'Germany, not genocide again!'
The deputy ambassador was absolutely delighted to receive our notification of German complicity in genocide in Gaza.
An important action, and thanks to everyone for coming.
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I'm very proud that over 600 academics in Ireland have signed our
@AcaforPalestine
call for Irish universities to cut ties with Israeli institutions.
'Academics call for ties with Israeli institutions to be cut'
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Every single university in Gaza has been destroyed. Scores, perhaps hundreds of academics and thousands of students have been killed by Israel. Universities in the West Bank have also been attacked, all without any comment from these proud defenders of academic freedom 5/9
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The ICJ has ruled that the accusation of genocide is credible. This is hugely important for Palestine solidarity. It means we can return to our institutions and our unions, our supermarkets and associations and demand they all cut ties with genocide, immediately.
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Trinity College has been shamefully silent on the attack on Gaza, while maintaining links with Israel. I'm genuinely proud that hundreds of my colleagues are demanding an end to this silence, this complicity with genocide
Full article below
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We knew the attacks would consist of two types of whatabouttery. ‘What about Hamas?’ and ‘What about academic freedom?’ Both should be understood as distractions to evade addressing the content of the letter – the need to cut ties with institutions complicit in genocide 2/9
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Germany is arming another genocide
The German government has massively increased its approvals for arms exports to Israel.
As of November 2, the government has authorized exports worth approximately €303 million.
In 2022 it was only about €32 million.
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Over 100 outside the US ambassador's residence in Dublin, protesting his 'peace on earth' dinner, when the US is enabling genocide in Gaza
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At the Trinity encampment now. A beautiful peaceful evening, workshops on solidarity and Palestine are just finishing and food is being brought in. So much respect for the students -their organisational ability as well as their moral leadership
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But let’s accept the racist premise behind this silence - only Israelis deserve academic freedom. Even here, the institutions we wish to boycott are openly attacking the academic freedom and the personal safety of dissident academics. 6/9
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Heartening to see the Israeli government publicising our efforts in Ireland to deshelve Israeli products. In the picture, If I'm not mistaken, are Lupilu baby wipes, sourced from Israel.
Lidl stocks them. We will continue to deshelve them until it does
@Dublin4Gaza
Hoarding antibacterial wipes is one way to state your desire to cleanse Israel of Jews.
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This is an absolutely damning report from
@wereontheditch
Trinity College is investing in Israeli companies blacklisted by the UN for human rights abuses …
This complicity with genocide has to stop.
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In conclusion, these attacks have deliberately avoided the central issue - Israeli institutions are complicit in genocide. I think it’s important not to be distracted, and instead to think of how we get our universities to cut ties with them 9/9
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I should maybe have expected how moving it was in Belfast today. After I spoke at the Holocaust Memorial Day rally for Palestine, so many people came up to say thanks. Thanking me for my solidarity same as I thank them ❤️
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On Hamas, we knew that Israel supporters would object to however we talked about the horrific Oct 7 attacks. We know the purpose of bringing up Hamas, of demanding condemnations, of demanding condemnations of those who haven’t condemned etc is as distraction 3/9
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But equally, talking about academic freedom in this context is distraction. This is partly because supporters of Israel do not believe in it, partly because Israeli academic institutions do not practice it 4/9
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If you’re an academic in Ireland you can still sign our letter below.
Over 200 more have signed since it was published. This gives me hope.
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I remember back in 2009/10, Martin slamming Israel's Cast Lead attack on Gaza, being one of the few EU foreign ministers to visit Gaza, then condemning Israel's attack on boats trying to break the siege.
Shameful how he's burning that legacy to get an EU job
The Tánaiste has defended the Govt's position on South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. South Africa has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and the Govt is being criticised for not supporting the case |
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Some examples of how hard Israeli universities treat dissident academics:
Our letter on the treatment of Professor Shalhoub Kevorkian by the Hebrew University is here .
Nurit Peled-Elanhan has also been suspended by her college 7/9
Fascism in Israel:
Nurit Peled-Elhanan was suspended from teaching at
@davidyellin
College, after quoting Jean-Paul Sartre in a WhatsApp conversation.
She is accused of supporting Hamas. In 1997 her daughter Smadar was murdered by Hamas in a suicide bombing.
Let that sink in.
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European countries are banning protests and events to do with Palestine, signalling support of Israel's mass murder and its declared intention to ethnically cleanse over a million Palestinians. Never has support of intention to commit warcrimes been so naked. 1/2
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@deenitz
The octopus is used as a symbol of global domination, whether US, Russian, Jewish or whatever. We could fill our boots with Jews being portrayed as various animals, sadly. That doesn't make them tropes. Pointing to fluffy toys and saying 'thats antisemitism', does though
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At the US ambassador's residence still. 'Palestine will be the winner! You're not getting any dinner'
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The Ditch has broken story after story about Ireland's links - especially our military links - with Israel. They've been hugely important, providing some of the best genuine journalism in this country
This week we revealed that the state let tonnes of IDF weaponry illegally pass through Irish airspace en route to Israel.
We've been writing about Ireland's relationship to Israel for a while, as well as efforts to degrade neutrality and militarise the Irish economy.
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@BrigidLaffan
You are free to disagree, as I'm free to argue this disagreement rests on not engaging with the central point of the letter - institutional complicity in genocide. Instead, we were faced with (unconscious?) strategies of deflection, which we in AfP are wearily familiar with
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Feels strange leafletting my own workplace about its complicity with genocide, but here we are six months on
Join us at
#TrinityOpenDay
, informing people about Trinity's links with genocide. A 'good university' divests from genocide
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2. The students obviously. Those goldfish-memoried flibbertigibbets that bounce from cause to cause. In reality, they’ve been consistently campaigning on BDS since at least 2015 2/14
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6. So we won. The benches are released and the spice will flow. Trinity is taking the same leadership on Israeli apartheid as it previously did on South African apartheid. And I hope this thread is useful for others trying to get their colleges to take the same leadership. 14/14
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Mad impressed that all the Irish bands have pulled out of SXSW festival over Gaza. It's kinda funny that Minister for Culture, Catherine Martin is still going. Far from promoting Irish culture, she's negating it.
via
@Nialler9
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There’s something grotesque about how supporters of Israel use the presence of a few dissident academics in order to defend the institutions attacking them. On the myth of liberal Israeli academia, this article is clarifying
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The
#palaestinakongress
in Berlin sought to highlight German complicity in genocide and repression of Palestinian solidarity. I'd say their job's been done for them
Video I just received shows
@PolizeiBerlin_I
arresting the spokesperson of Jewish Voice for Peace in Germany, Udi Raz, as horrified onlookers shout "Never Again!" amid these scenes so reminiscent of Germany's Nazi past (present)
#PalaestinaKongress
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The Irish Greens are terrible and here are the reciepts. An article I co-wrote
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Micheál Martin explaining how he's tried nothing and is all out of ideas. Here's some: pass the Occupied Territories Bill, endorse the ICJ genocide case, stop weapons going through Shannon. There's many more
Until Israel is sanctioned for its actions, it will continue them
Ireland has used every political, diplomatic and humanitarian measure that we possibly can to help the people of Gaza and Palestine.
Some on the opposition say we have failed to intervene.
We have not.
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At our event in Trinity remembering those who died, demanding our university cuts ties with the state that killed them
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@downgerd
@harrybrowne
Thanks, this is an excellent example of the distraction I was talking about. The name was added as distraction, Larkin's letter was distraction, as indeed is your post. Anything to avoid addressing complicity in genocide
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All these victories, I hardly need to add, were dismissed as insufficient and meaningless from people who – there’s no other way of putting it – really don’t like students. The students wisely ignored these people. 4/14
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They’ve been building skills and passing on institutional memories, absorbing setbacks and college sanctions, and winning victories – SU divestment, SU support for BDS, college divestment from weapons companies 3/14
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Dublin for Gaza are occupying the Dept of Foreign Affairs!
Demanding the govt end weapons transport through shannon and push for a ceasefire via the UN.
Come down to Stephen's Green and show your support!
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The current SU is a radical campaigning one. They have the skills and action repertoires needed for direct action. More than that, people who stand up for themselves – campaigning on rents and fees – tend to stand up for others. 5/14
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3. Staff also matter! Specifically, staff-student solidarity which meant students weren’t isolated. On one level, students got on well with campus security. On another,
@AfPTrinity
offered full support to the encampment. 7/14
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Ireland stands with Palestine. Dublin yesterday ♥️
Video from Michelle Hayes
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#neveragain
as a lie
Most, if not all Holocaust education groups have failed to condemn the genocide in Gaza. Worse, many are being used to attack those who oppose this genocide. This is many things, but above all it is a catastrophic failure of Holocaust education.
Many thanks to Brendan O'Connor
@RadioBrendanRTE
for giving me the opportunity to explain how Jews living in Ireland are heartbroken at the rise of antisemitism & are bewildered by the polarization of rhetoric around the current conflict. Oliver
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@deenitz
Context is important. It's worth pointing out that 'this cuddly toy is antisemitic' was first used against Greta Thunberg, to attack her support for Palestine.
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@Holocaust_Irl
@RadioBrendanRTE
Conflating solidarity for Palestine with antisemitism is simply wrong, especially now. Especially as you are aware that many Jews reject this conflation and stand in solidarity with Palestine
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This ensured they conducted consistent disruptive actions and education in response to college complicity in Israeli genocide. After Columbia, a TCD encampment and student confrontation with college authorities was pretty inevitable. 6/14
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So when business as usual was disrupted, they were open to resuming business by excluding a genocidal state rather than without large sections of the college community and, I like to think, their own consciences on the matter. 13/14
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While
@Dublin4Gaza
was occupying the Dept of Foreign Affairs, demanding Israel be sanctioned, the Minister was over in Israel posing for photo ops for his gracious hosts.
The contrast couldn't be starker. You can't sweet-talk a genocidal regime. Micheal Martin embarrasses us
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Before that, our group mobilised and informed staff with open letters, academic talks and personal contacts. We wrote to admin bodies and met with the Provost. We also organised our own demonstrations – separate from, but always in conjunction with student groups. 8/14
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Nor are they ideologically anti-Palestinian – again the contrast with other campuses is stark. They were honestly horrified by the slaughter in Gaza. They talked with us and while I admit I didn’t think so at the time, were listening to us. At least with one ear 12/14
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In the EU Commission office now, occupying it in protest against EU complicity with genocide in Gaza
🚨🚨PRESS RELEASE: European Commission Office Dublin is currently being occupied 🚨🚨 1/7
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5. The final reason – college administration. All the above meant that coercion, as we’ve seen on other campuses, wasn’t really an option for them. But TCD was never going to put snipers on roofs. College leadership, to their credit, was concerned about protestor safety 11/14
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4. College community exists and it too matters! After the million billion dollar fine was levied on the students for being disruptive, college alumni organised and demanded it be lifted. The fellows (TCD academics of distinction) met and urged compromise. 10/14
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This helped ensure that even staff who disagreed with the disruption caused by the students (those innocent benches), understood that there was good reason for them to protest. There was legitimacy to their actions 9/14
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At the TCD student demo now. "We don't want Trinity to be just a money making machine and a tourist hostel...we are finally saying we are not taking it anymore"
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@Dublin4Gaza
is currently occupying the Department of Transport on Leeson St, calling on Minister Eamon Ryan to halt any transportation of weapons bound for Israel through Shannon Airport.
Drop by and offer support if you're in town. The full statement is below
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Nice and kind, two underwhelming words. But the Bohs Palestine match was all about us being nice and kind to them and Palestinians being nice and kind back to us. It feels overwhelming because it gave us a contrast to the horrors of the past year. A glimpse of a possible future
🗣 'They thought they could get rid of us, and they can't - this is proof of our existence.'
🇵🇸 Palestine player Charlotte Phillips' gave a powerful interview alongside her grandparents following their 2-1 win over
@bfcdublin
last night.
🎙:
@ashoreilly_
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My union now supports full BDS!
Motion 13: BDS Support and Academic Boycott of Israeli Institutions: 'Noting that Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories show Israel is committing the crime of apartheid against.....
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At the Palestine demo earlier today. Was worried beforehand if there'd be a decent turnout. I needn't have been. There was a huge crowd that filled town. Ireland stands with Palestine!
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We'll be returning to the German Embassy in Booterstown with
@JewishPeace
and
@ipsc48
to protest German complicity in genocide and its supression of Palestinian solidarity. Tomorrow, Saturday 13 April at 2 pm
The Palästina Kongress, Palestine Solidarity Conference, in Berlin which I'm due to speak at alongside other notable panelists including UN Special Rep. for Palestine Francesca and former Greek Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis is currently seeing suppression by the German state
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Already, over 150 academics have signed this letter calling on Irish colleges to cut ties with Israeli academic institutions complicit in genocide. If you're an academic in Ireland, please add your name by 5pm tomorrow, Thursday 2 November.
Academics for Palestine has drafted a letter to Irish newspapers that addresses the current catastrophe in Palestine and focuses on the need for action by Irish universities to end complicity with Israeli apartheid. Sign and share by 5pm Thurs 2 Nov:
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Now the Cobblestone demo was a success, I'm really looking forward to people telling us we should have protested about something else. Excellent way of advancing every cause
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@jkaffash
@oceanclub
Absolutely. I've no doubt that what was really going on was pointing to a Muslim woman and saying 'this thing, this is antisemitic'.
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It's the lowest bar possible, not to participate directly in Israel's warcrimes. Still I'm very relieved that we passed this bare minimal standard of humanity. Compared to a lot of Europe these days, we're pretty normal
BREAKING: Ireland rejects a suspension of EU aid to Palestine
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The walkback begins. Some in the EU are realizing that their total identification with a far-right Israeli government announcing genocidal intent is damaging them. The article correctly centres the concern is over EU credibility not Palestinian lives.
There is deep concern among EU institutions and capitals that by appearing to sanction Israel's expected invasion of Gaza, von der Leyen has squandered the EU's credibility - including on Ukraine.
She had no mandate to visit Israel from the member states.
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A great response to the classist swill going around Irish twitter. You can sense how delighted some folks are that the riots have let them openly express their contempt for working class Dubs
The only funny thing about this disgusting stereotyping - akin to the 18th and 19th century UK cartoons of pig-like Irish people or the hook-nosed Jewish money grabbers in anti-semitic propaganda - is that the likes of Caio here, undoubtedly a hero, lives alongside Anto, not
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Irish govt is doing nothing about genocide in Gaza. It refuses to place any sanctions on Israel. It refuses to expel the Israeli ambassador. It refuses even to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court, the mildest thing possible.
Protest at 12 today, if you're in town.
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The banality of evil. I've never seen it so stark.
Haaretz has published (in Hebrew, not English) an incomprehensibly vile article in the style of a lifestyle cooking feature, about Israel's soldiers finding and cooking with ingredients in the kitchens of Gazans who had to flee their homes and are now starving.
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It's mad we still have to tell the papers that many Jews don't support genocide.
At least they're printing our letters these days. Some progress. From today's Indo and Irish Times
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Could there be a more perfect example of a guilty conscience.
Jews ok with genocide announce they're intimidated by a demo organised by Jews against genocide
It should not be difficult to understand or recognise that this is an intimidating atmosphere for Jewish people on their way home from work.
Many have had to turn back.
Chants ‘From the river to the sea’ are calling for the destruction of Israel, the only Jewish state.
Enough.
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@brianmlucey
@ifut
In the meantime, every single university in Gaza has been destroyed. This is something perhaps more significant than benches being moved
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Normally I block Zionist bots, but this is a thing of beauty. Could you fit more colonialism into one tweet
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There's white line pickets for Palestine across Dublin this Thursday evening.
If you're in Dolphin's Barn, Cabra, Stoneybatter, Ballymun, North Strand, Finglas or Phibsboro come and join the
@Dublin4Gaza
pickets
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@YeomanGuard1
No worries, the boycott is not directed against individuals but institutions. Much like the boycott of Russian institutions which I'm guessing, from your flag emoji, that you would support
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I'm pretty sure there were similar newspaper articles back in the day from Irish people in apartheid South Africa, saying it was a complicated situation, it was ignorant to villify South Africa, black people were dangerous etc.
But not in the middle of a genocide
Irish in Israel: ‘The reaction at home is hard to stomach. I thought about burning my passport’
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@Lollardfish
The picture is more revealing than the guy realises. I work in TCD and the pic is of The Long Room, a tourist trap, not an actual working library. So really what is preferred here is the simulacrum of Western Thought, rather than actual knowledge or thinking
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But it's not enough to merely stand aside from supporting Israel's warcrimes, as our government has done. Israel has to be sanctioned for its mass killings, its the only way to stop them.
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Our local Academics for Palestine branch has been announced via Trinity News! For me, the important thing is less the provost refusing to meet us. It's more that about 100 colleagues support our position, and that there's evidence of a 'grey boycott' against Israel in TCD
We're in Trinity News urging college to abandon its stance of neutrality towards genocide, and urging Trinity academics to join their many colleagues who support the boycott of Israeli academia
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This was the final slide in John Reynolds superb talk in Trinity College on the ICJ genocide ruling on Israel. It expresses perfectly his points about the limitations of the ruling and also the ways in can be used to target our campaigns
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Proud to be taking part in this tomorrow. TCD staff and students calling for an end to complicity with genocide
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Spoke today about academic freedom and boycott in Galway, hosted by
@edi_uniofgalway
. I learnt as much as anyone there
Senior admin staff asked thoughtful questions about cutting ties with Israel. Palestinian students spoke of Israeli universities complicity in genocide 1/2
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My union recently issued a statement on Palestine that failed to mention Palestine, that failed to talk about the genocide or the destruction of education, that refused to even refer to Palestinians or their call for solidarity through boycott.
We expect better from our unions
IFUT recently sent a "Statement on the Middle East" to members. This failed to even mention Palestine, let alone Palestinian calls for solidarity through the academic boycott. Below is AfP TCD's response.
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I see someone got there way before me and made the point better, using a million billion examples.
For those currently attacking
@GretaThunberg
over a cuddly toy, an exhaustive thread to add perspective. That *any* depiction of an octopus (or squid) is somehow an expression of antisemitism is utterly ahistorical and has - ironically - become a trope.
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Good crowd at the
@ipsc48
demo outside the Dail against the ethnic cleansing of Silwan in Jerusalem. I'm with
@RonitLentin
representing for
@JewishPeace
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Delighted that our book on Palestine and academic freedom has come out. It was a pleasure co-editing it, there's some great chapters in there
Crucial new book now available for order from
@ZedBooks
- 'Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel' (edited by
@dlandy100
@RonitLentin
& Conor McCarthy)
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Friends, see you at the march in Dublin at 1 today, starting at the spire. There's demos all over Ireland today and tomorrow. A list of them below along with other actions we can take. Solidarity with Palestine is desperately needed
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With racist attacks and far-right organising on the rise in Dublin, this event we're hosting next Thursday in TCD is timely: Racism and the City. It's open to all and speakers will be
@BulelaniMfaco
,
@EbunJoseph1
,
@loudtinker
, and
@eugeniasiapera
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