Teachers Union of Ireland approves academic boycott of Israel because its an apartheid state

Anti Israel banner in Ireland 

By: Sarah Weiss

Irish citizens have again shown their dislike for Israel, as The Teachers Union of Ireland has voted to boycott all academic collaboration with Israel, including research programs and exchange of scientists, according to press reports in the United Kingdom.

This is the first full academic boycott imposed by a teachers union of the European Union.
A motion, asking all union members to finish the job with their Israeli counterparts, was approved unanimously at the annual conference in Galway, last week.

The union requested the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to increase its campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against the “apartheid state of Israel until they lift the illegal siege of Gaza and the illegal occupation of the West Bank.”

The TUI, asked all its members to “end all cultural and academic cooperation with Israel, including the exchange of scientists, students and academics, as well as all the cooperation in research programs.”

Dublin sociology professor and anti-Israel activist David Landy said the measure “is a historic precedent.”

“We congratulate the The Ireland Teachers Union and ask all academic unions, Irish, British and European, to adapt similar motions,” Landy said.

“This is a sad day for Ireland. Ireland has again shown its extreme dislike for Israel and its anti-Semitic stance,” Hans Gauld, 49, a Jewish activist in Ireland told YourJewishNews.com.

The TUI represents teachers and academics working in all levels of education throughout the country and has more than 14,500 members.

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