Our experiences are as academics teaching on and as activists working in solidarity with Palestine. In both arenas we saw how our colleagues and our comrades have faced powerful censorious forces, designed to silence criticism and critical thought on Israel, an..
David Landy, Ronit Lentin, and Conor McCarthy
David Landy is director of the Masters in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict at Trinity College Dublin and former chair of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Camaign. He is the author of Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights: Diaspora Jewish Opposition to Israel (2011).
Ronit Lentin is a retired Associate Professor of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin and former chair of Academics for Palestine. Her books include Thinking Palestine (2008), Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorializing the Palestinian Nakba (2010), and Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Setller Colonialism (2018).
Conor McCarthy is a lecturer in the School of English, Maynooth University. His books include Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969-1992 (2000), The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly 1893-1916 (2016), and The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said (2010).