Horizon 2020
Both An Garda Síochána and the Police Service of Northern Ireland are engaged in an EU research project called ROXANNE, working in collaboration with the notorious Israeli Ministry of Public Security. CLICK TO TAKE ACTION! This is the Ministry responsible for both the Israel National Police (including the Border Police) and the Israel Prison Service. It oversees routine commission of serious human rights abuses and international law violations against the Palestinian people, and racism and violence directed at minorities within Israel. These well documented violations include brutal killings, the torture and imprisonment of children, medical negligence of political prisoners, … Continue reading →
Posted November 24, 2020 in Action Item, Apartheid, BDS, Campaigns, Child deaths, Child Prisoners, Email Campaign, EU, Gaza, Home Demolitions, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Impunity, International Law, Irish Government, Jerusalem, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Refugees, Report, Right to BDS, Settlements, Settler Violence, UN, United Nations, UNOCHA, War Crimes, West Bank.
In late March and early April the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and several other organsiations are hosting special national film screening tour featuring the award winning new documentary about the military-industrial complex in Israel which explores how it is helping to turn Palestine’s blood into Israel’s profit. This series of FREE SCREENINGS will take place in the following dates. All screenings will be followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Yotam Feldman who is on a tour of Ireland. Saturday 28 March – Lurgan: 3pm, Ashburn Hotel, Lurgan Monday 30 March – Galway: 7pm, Cairnes Theatre, National University of Ireland … Continue reading →
Posted March 18, 2015 in Apartheid, Arms Embargo, BDS, Cork, Dublin, Event, Film Premiere, Film Screening, Galway, Gaza, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, Limerick, Lurgan, National Rights, National Tour, NUIG, Political Rights, Press releases, Public Meeting, Sanctions, Trinity College Dublin, Video, War Crimes.
The below letter was sent by the European Coordination Committee for Palestine (ECCP), a network of associations, NGOs, committees and solidarity groups acting for Palestine of which the IPSC is a member, to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton. === To the attention of Catherine Ashton – High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice President of the European Commission: Brussels, July 10th, 2014 Madam the High Representative, The European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP) – a network of 50 European committees, organizations, NGOs and international … Continue reading →
Posted July 10, 2014 in ECCP, EU, Euro Med, Gaza, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, Impunity, National Rights, Open Letter, Political Rights, Press releases, Sanctions, War Crimes.
On June 8th 2014 the EU and Israel finally signed the Horizon 2020 association agreement which will allow Israel to be a party to the program that doles out research grants using EU taxpayer money. On Wednesday 18th June the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held a symbolic lunchtime protest outside the EU Commission office in Dublin to highlight opposition to Israel’s accession to this agreement. Any EU agreement with Israel should be opposed so long as Israel is an occupier of Palestinian lands and remains a serial human rights abuser and violator of international law. However, this agreement is particularly egregious … Continue reading →
Posted June 23, 2014 in Apartheid, BDS, Demonstration, Dublin, Ethnic Cleansing, EU, EU Guidelines, Euro Med, Event Report, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Impunity, Internment, Irish Government, National Rights, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Protest, Sanctions, Settlements, War Crimes, West Bank.
Press Release from Academics for Palestine: Irish academic researchers collaborated in EU-funded projects with Israeli counterparts who make drones, develop high-tech weapons and engage in “counter-terror” activities with the Mossad, it was revealed today. In all, Irish universities have collaborated with Israel in 257 projects to date, seven of them listed as “security” and 13 as “aerospace”. These EU research programmes are administered by Irish Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. The information on Irish-Israeli research links was gathered through the examination of publicly available EU documents by members of Academics for Palestine (AfP), a new organisation launched today in Dublin. The group … Continue reading →
Posted February 20, 2014 in Academic Boycott, Academic Freedom, Academics for Palestine, Apartheid, BNC, Boycott, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, War Crimes.
Academics for Palestine – Press Release, 14th February 2014 MORE THAN 120 Irish academics have signed a pledge to boycott Israeli institutions until Palestinian rights are respected. The number is expected to increase as more lecturers learn about the growing campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel – a campaign led by Palestinians that is gaining global support. “The conflict in Palestine has now reached its ‘South African moment’ – the point at which Israeli apartheid has been recognised as such by the international community,” Prof Haim Bresheeth, a noted London-based film-maker and academic from Israel, said today. … Continue reading →
Posted February 16, 2014 in Academic Boycott, Academics for Palestine, Apartheid, BDS, BNC, Boycott, Campaigns, education, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, War Crimes.
On February 4th 2014 the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign made a 14-page submission to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s ‘Review of Ireland’s Foreign Policy and External Relations’. You can read the IPSC submission ‘A review of Ireland’s foreign policy approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’ by clicking here. Background In Decemeber 2013 the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: “invited [people] to have your say on what our foreign policy priorities and goals should be” [and that] “submissions can address any issue related to Ireland’s foreign policy which they consider to be of relevance“ As the Department also … Continue reading →
Posted February 6, 2014 in Academic Boycott, Apartheid, Arms Embargo, BDS, Briefing Paper, Campaigns, Divestment, Economic Boycott, EU, EU Guidelines, Euro Med, Gaza, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, Irish Government, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Report, Right of Return, Sanctions, Settlements, Siege of Gaza, War Crimes, West Bank.
The Irish government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is soliciting individual contributions for a “review of Ireland’s Foreign Policy and External Relations”. Note: The CLOSING DATE is 5pm on Tuesday 4th February. According to the Department website: “you are invited to have your say on what our foreign policy priorities and goals should be”. Further, it states that “Individuals making a submission can address any issue related to Ireland’s foreign policy which they consider to be of relevance, including any not explicitly raised in this document“ As the Department also believes that “respect for and the promotion of human … Continue reading →
Posted January 30, 2014 in Academic Boycott, Action Item, Apartheid, Apartheid Wall, Arms Embargo, BDS, Bedouin, Boycott, Child Prisoners, CRH, Divestment, Economic Boycott, EU, EU Guidelines, Euro Med, Gaza, Home Demolitions, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, Irish Government, Nakba, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Refugees, Right of Return, Sanctions, Settlements, Siege of Gaza, The Wall, UN, United Nations, War Crimes, West Bank.
In July 2013, the European Commission announced new guidelines that aim to prevent Israeli projects in illegal Israeli settlements from receiving research grant funding and prevent Israeli companies and institutions that operate inside illegal Israeli settlements from participating in financial instruments such as loans. The new guidelines were broadly welcomed by Palestinian and European civil society organisations. But now Israel and its supporters are apply severe pressure on the EU to drop the new guidelines. There is a very real risk that the Commission will cave in to this pressure and decide to continue the funding of, and support for, … Continue reading →
Posted October 9, 2013 in Apartheid, BDS, EU, EU Guidelines, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, Jerusalem, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Settlements, War Crimes, West Bank.
