Trinity College Dublin
‘Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel’ is a new book edited by our colleagues David Landy, Ronit Lentin and Conor McCarthy from Academics for Palestine. Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the public debate has focussed on ‘no platforming’ by students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted efforts to silence the critical voices of both academics and students, through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats and online harassment. Such tactics have conspicuously been used, with particularly virulent … Continue reading →
Posted May 18, 2020 in Academic Boycott, Academic Freedom, Academics for Palestine, Book Launch, Human Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Right to BDS, Trinity College Dublin, Workers Rights.
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.
