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1. This is a welcome move. Kudos. However, we need universities to look at their ongoing colonial links... Irish universities are still involved in forging connections with states involved in settler-colonialism, most notably Israel. https://twitter.com/SpeakerConolly/status/1362324821388984323
2. Only this week we saw the Palestinian Bedouin community attacked (again) by Israeli forces, their homes destroyed, and their community forcibly transferred (a war crime). Universities must come to terms with the fact that they continue to fail to stand in solidarity with
3. an indigenous people when they sign up to links with Israeli institutions. I have argued many times before, any reckoning with a colonial past is merely lip-service if it is not attached to a meaningful reckoning with current links to states involved in settler-colonialism.
