University of Galway is again urged to cease its Israeli relationship
The Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR) has written a second public letter urging the University of Galway’s management team to cease its relationship with Israel’s Technion University.
The Campus Anti-Genocide Coalition (CAG) at University of Galway has welcomed the ICHR’s intervention, which highlighted the consequences for the children of Gaza if Israel is not actively opposed.
The letter urged the President of University of Galway and management team to read the recent report to the UN on the deliberate targeting and killing of Palestinian children. That report said the harm suffered by Palestinian children was “not incidental but intended to destroy the existence of the Palestinians as a group”.
Information submitted by ICHR to university management in March set out the links between the Technion Institute and the Israeli state and concluded that Technion is the ‘backbone’ of Israel’s security, infrastructure and high-tech industry.
The ICHR outlined the moral and legal obligations to terminate the Technion agreement and the process by which to do so.
The letter expressed concern that the university’s reliance on a “process of engagement with the European Commission” was delaying the termination of the agreement.
CAG echoed the ICHR call to “end this partnership with Technion without further delay and to demonstrate, in practice, its commitment to the leadership and values of human rights”.
CAG, a coalition of staff, students, SIPTU, IFUT, alumni and the people of Galway, said it “will not rest until the Technion partnership and all ties to Israel end”.