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...
View ArticleLet’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...
View ArticleOver 170 academics pledge to boycott Israel
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...
View ArticleCampaign 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...
View ArticleStudent referendum on cutting Trinity ties with Israeli universities to be...
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...
View ArticleTrinity to review its links with Israeli and Palestinian third-level...
Trinity has commenced a review of its relations with third-level institutions in both Israel and Palestine, Trinity News has learned. Academic secretary, Patricia Callaghan, is currently conducting...
View ArticleToo many broken cameras
Background Iyad Burnat is a Palestinian campaigner for non-violent resistance against the occupation of the Palestinian territories by the Israeli Defence Forces and the settlement and annexation of...
View ArticleOpen Letter: Trinity Chaplaincy, Boycott Israel
“Dear Rev Dr. Hamilton, I’m writing with regard to the proposed Peace Pilgrimage to Israel and Palestine, and specifically in relation to the press release for the trip published on the Chaplaincy’s...
View ArticleConference causes row between UCC and Israeli Embassy
A row has erupted between the Embassy of Israel in Dublin and University College Cork (UCC) over plans to host a conference from March 31 to April 2 in UCC on the legitimacy of the state of Israel....
View ArticleEducation as a form of resistance: Interview with Malaka Mohammed
Stable electricity, clean water, reliable wifi connection, a roof over your head. These are things that are taken for granted in the West, but that shocked Malaka Mohammed as she settled in England...
View ArticleResponse: Students For Justice in Palestine on the cancellation of Israeli...
Credit: Niall Maher On Monday, the Israeli ambassador to Ireland was due to give a talk in Trinity College Dublin, having been invited by the college Society for International Affairs (SOFIA) TCD....
View ArticleTCDSU Council votes against motion to boycott Israel
Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) voted tonight against a motion which called for a “college wide boycott of the state of Israel”, to create a “student led Palestinian solidarity...
View ArticleTCDSU President-elect Kevin Keane in controversy after speaking against...
Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) President-elect Kevin Keane has broken a pledge he made during the sabbatical officer election campaign to advocate for an economic and academic boycott...
View ArticleA time for change?
Photo Credit: Joe McCallion/Trinity News Last night’s Hist debate on whether or not the two state solution between Israel and Palestine should be abandoned promised to be an intense one, and it...
View ArticleWhy I’m voting yes in the BDS referendum
BDS Protestors in McGill University, Quebec Canada Photo Credit: McGill Daily/ Flickr This week Trinity students will be asked to vote on whether the SU should be...
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