Over 600 academics from Ireland call on universities to suspend ties with Israel

More than 600 academics and scholars have co-signed an open letter, demanding that universities in Ireland suspend all ties with Israel due to the ongoing bombing of Gaza. 

The letter states: "The scale and severity of Israel's current war on the Gaza Strip has exceeded all previous levels of violence in the prolonged and brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is a campaign of ethnic cleansing and, according to many experts, genocidal violence."

It added: "The dehumanising language and tropes widely used by Israeli leaders in reference to Palestinians echo those typically associated with genocidal incitement and intent."

Among those who have signed the letter are Professor Kathleen Lynch and Professor Eugenia Siapera, both from University College Dublin, and Professor Aoife O'Donoghue, from Queen's University, Belfast.