Academics for Palestine, a list of Irish academics calling for a boycott of Israel has today passed 170 signatories.
Full list of signatories here.
AFP are calling on Irish universities and colleges to stop cooperating with Israeli companies in the development of high-tech weaponry.
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The food and business development lecturer in UCC sure has a lovely name.
Meanwhile, in Trinity.
http://www.tcd.ie/biosciences/assets/pdf/IT_supple_tbsi_weiz.pdf
Good on the DITs. TCD very badly represented, bunch of cowards.
only two from DCU yet TCD are a bunch of cowards?
Don’t let us get in the way of your agenda
It will be very interesting to see the the quality of the publication output of this motley lot.
9 from DCU.
Don’t let the facts get in the way!
Just back frm a huge march in support of the people of Gaza who, yet again, are being murdered by Israeli terrorists
Was the “Academics for Palestine” list published already this year (or last year)?
Started in February, I think
So it did. Thanks Clampers
Hear hear.
Tom Stewart may or may not be a troll but he is a preachy bore
Down with this sort of thing
Good luck with that.
They should all be sacked….
For asking that Israel should respect international law?
No, for not doing their job.
Leave their own personal grievnaces to their own time.
Back on the treadmill you or it’s electric shocks all round!
Just making a comment.
I think everyone on this site is sick of you though Clampers.
You’d swear you owned the website the way you go on.
I think you’re alright Clampers.
I like you Clampers. As you were
FWIW I think Clampers is sound enough.
Peter is obviously a troll. Ignore.
I am an individual with an opinion and quiet Friday afternoons :)
and clearly no friends
The only obvious benefit in not having the best anti-IED technology available is to terrorists everywhere and their sneaking retarders. Our DF have just has a consignment of Anti-IED equipment delivered to them on the Syrian border; maybe they should send it back.
I recognise the words and suspect there’s a vague attempt at sentence construction but… other than that, what you just posted is utterly indecipherable.
I hope that you may find this helpful: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
That was intended to be addressed to shit for brains above.
When you say “our DF” do you mean the Israeli DF?
No, Smart ass.
How can you tar all Israeli academics with the idea they are in agreement with their government? Is this going to be applied to other States that break international law? Russia, America….
Put pressure on them through non-cooperation, they can pass on the pressure to the regime.
It’s not that complicated.
I get your point. Unfortunately, EU governments are happy to carry out sanctions against Russia but not Israel Therefore it is not really as necessary for Russia’s breaches to be highlighted by civilian protests like these. International laws don’t apply to the US because they’re exceptional. Obviously.
I see one of my old lecturers, on the list. Good on her!
Are you a DCU graduate?
Careful how you reply! He’s a one handed typer!
i wondered where that tool bag rory hearne went after his failed election campaign there a few years ago. preaching his nonsense to students in maynooth i see. god help them.
“…until such time as Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.”
Glaringly obvious from this list is the lack of any academic practicing in the field of law and human rights.
look again.
g’wan the DIT!
No law department TCD
No Ivana Bacik
it’s a list of people who are going to do nothing. a rebelious bunch of hipsters
As a TCD lecturer have to say never even heard of this initiative until now – but it’s a very ill-advised one. it’s rare to achieve any kind of resolution through telepathy – closing off any avenues of dialogue is very rarely the answer – and the academic sphere that should be encouraging openness and transparency rather than stifling it – we have plenty of politicians skilled in that area already throughout Europe. Even if the Israeli academy is being judged to justify political policy we cannot assume that they have but one voice – unfortunately this drive appears to deny the multitude of voices that can emerge – if they are let. Denying communication with them is a pretty effective means of silencing them too.
What nonsense. These “skilled” politicians you speak of will only start listening when the public opinion is deafening. Otherwise they will continue to appease Israel. Sure, many Israeli academics are against their government’s oppression of Palestinians. It is collateral damage, the same as any pro-Palestine Israeli vegetable producer who suffers as a result of a boycott on Israeli vegetables. That is how a boycott works.
If you read that line again – you’ll see I suggested they are skilled in stifling debate – so I’m under no illusions that they can come to the rescue as readily as we’d like. But you seem to think that cutting off lines of communication, especially in a sphere that is founded upon the exchange of knowledge, is a good way to go. Historically sanctions like these have never worked – shall we destroy Israeli scholarship too?
Aren’t vegetable producers also known as farmers?
Well said jungleman
The ‘academic sphere’ is commonly utilised by Israel’s propaganda machine to justify their sense of superiority and deeply held sense of racism against their Arab brothers and sisters e.g.
http://www.iliplaw.com/2014/07/a-partial-answer-to-a-common-question-why-is-there-so-much-innovation-coming-out-of-israel.html
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.ie/2010/01/israelis-have-16805-patents-arabs-have.html
Laura
In your exchanges with colleagues in Israeli academia, have you ever sought to establish what percentage of them support the actions of the current government? If not, have you ever formed an opinion as to their general views on the genocide in Gaza?
boycott – it’d be interesting to follow where the ‘soft money’ for academic research comes from and goes to. AAF. CATO, JPC etc all fund university research programmes worldwide with, to my mind, an emphasis on conclusions that further their rhetoric and agenda. open academic discussion is one thing, but money talks louder.
As for a specific/ballpark percentage I couldn’t say.We’re mostly in contact at international conferences, and it can be a taboo subject to say the least, but I found that those who are willing to discuss it have deep reservations about Israeli policy. However a number of Israeli scholars who work in my field are actively engaged in researching the Irish situation and how conflict was resolved here in order to gain a deeper understanding of the issues in their region. These colleagues in particular have worked in both Israeli and European universities. What I would fear is that such a boycott if it met with any success would drive reasoned voices to leave the Israeli academy, and what reasoned voice needs is support, not isolation.
Laura
How many Gazans, Israeli Arabs, Christians and West Bank Palestinians are pro rata, feted academics, per head of population in the ‘Israeli Academy’?
Don’t know, do you? Would like to know also. (I’m using the term ‘Israeli Academy’ to refer to all universities in Israel – in case it implied something else) .
If you don’t know then how can you say for certain whether “the academic sphere that should be encouraging openness and transparency” – or is this just oul cant and guff?
Maybe the ‘academic sphere’ would simply be talking to an extension of the racist, Islamophobic elements in contemporary Israel and encouraging their treachery and racism by definition by giving them a patina of legitimacy?
Maybe find out the facts on the openness and transparency of the Israeli academy before spouting some reactionary cant and guff?
That’ll suit the lazy Irish wallowing in their ivory towers getting fat on the taxpayers back.., meanwhile in the real world their Israeli equivalents are winning Nobel prizes for advancement of science and medicine … Sounds like a Putin style boycott to me
Racist, stupid, stereotyping hyperbole