Prof Linda Connolly
@lindaconnolly.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, author
I wrote something on anger, today and in medieval Ireland. #MedievalSky #OpenAccess #Speirgorm #Spéirghorm www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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De Ira - Volume 2
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This “silence breaking” book, long in the making, is entering the world. Preorder here: www.routledge.com/Women-Violen...
This “silence breaking” book, long in the making, is entering the world. Preorder here: www.routledge.com/Women-Violen...
Andy Burnham apologises for Labour’s stance on Gaza and says it ‘didn’t get it right’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andy Burnham apologises for Labour’s stance on Gaza and says it ‘didn’t get it right’
Exclusive: PM-in-waiting says party must ‘do better’ in approach to Middle East and he will put more pressure on Israel
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Later this week (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) we will host the French Colonial Historical Society conference at Department of History, Maynooth University. 180 attendees are coming for what promises to be a fascinating event. You can check out the programme here: colvet.eu/wp-content/u...
Campus looking well ahead of #FCHS26. Looking forward to welcoming all the delegates of the @frenchcolonial.bsky.social to Maynooth.
J’arrive à l’université de Maynooth pour le congrès de @frenchcolonial.bsky.social et j’ai hâte de présenter à demain sur mes recherches dans l’histoire des Kalinagos (personnes autochtones des Caraïbes) pendant le six-septième siècle. #FCHS2026
‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund
Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions
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Join us @maynoothuniversity.ie for a lecture by Professor Rashid Khalidi on Tuesday 21st April - register here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
Britain, Ireland, Palestine, Israel with Rashid Khalidi
MU AHI Contested Histories Research Group, Maynooth University History Society, and Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute are pleased to host Professor Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University)
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Delighted that we will be welcoming the brilliant Prof Rashid Khalidi to Maynooth next Tuesday for a talk on the shared genealogies of colonial counter-insurgency in Ireland and Palestine. Follow this link to register. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
Britain, Ireland, Palestine, Israel with Rashid Khalidi
MU AHI Contested Histories Research Group, Maynooth University History Society, and Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute are pleased to host Professor Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University)
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I have a full page report in today's @irishtimes.com on Israeli attacks on healthcare in Lebanon & the crisis of international law. Read it online or in the print newspaper: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle... Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this.
Watch this. How the anti semitic slur has been weaponised in the most disgusting way @irishtimes.com www.youtube.com/shorts/nVZXc...
Rep. Balint storms out House hearing after Bondi's comments on antisemitism
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‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail
As if Greenland had not been colonised enough
"The day is arriving when those responsible for these crimes against humanity will be held to account. Iran, too, will have its Nuremberg moment: a reckoning in the name of justice." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... #IranMassacare
Opinion: As Iran cracks down on protesters again, the world cannot be silent
The international community must stand with the courageous people of Iran in their heroic struggle for liberation and a better future
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Prominent Palestinian reconstructive surgeon and academic Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah has won a misconduct case brought against him - yet another case won m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“Rector of Scottish university cleared of antisemitism and Hamas support” - yet another case won - the smearing of academics who spoke out about the emerging genocide in Gaza was utterly scandalous and defamation in its crudest form. Apologies are long overdue. www.thenational.scot/news/2575360...
Rector of Scottish university cleared of antisemitism and Hamas support
THE rector of the University of Glasgow has been cleared of misconduct by medical watchdogs over alleged antisemitism and support for Hamas in his…
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A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity | Eric Reinhart www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity | Eric Reinhart
The dismissal of a a renowned health leader who refused to ignore Palestine highlights false claims of universality in human rights, global health and academia
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French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack
French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="432218" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title"> French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two French journalist unions filed a legal case against Israel for obstructing the work of their journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, AFP reported on Tuesday.</p> <p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the French Journalists' Union filed the complaint with the Paris anti-terror prosecutor's office last week, accusing Israel of "obstructing the freedom to inform".</p> <p>The complaint mentioned a journalist being pursued by around 50 Israelis armed with "guns, cans of petrol and sticks" while reporting in the West Bank, all in the presence of the Israeli army.</p> <p>Israel has not allowed international journalists into the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October 2023, except when embedded with Israeli forces.</p> <p>IFJ general secretary Anthony Bellanger said, "For more than two years, the IFJ has been calling for the borders to be opened to the foreign press so that they can relieve our colleagues who are exhausted by two years of war."</p> </div> </div> </article>
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@irishtimes.com Letters to the Editor, December 3rd: On Herzog Park “Raising the alarm on the conditions for a genocide and on genocide denial is an ethical imperative in tackling what Hannah Arendt termed “the banality of evil” that violently destroys lives….” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
Letters to the Editor, December 3rd: On Taser stun guns, renaming Herzog Park, rural pubs and remembering Hugh Wallace
It is also reassuring that this proposal is being trialled in tandem with body-worn cameras
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“Gaza now resembles 'Mad Max movie', says Irish surgeon” - the shame of this being allowed to happen, some serious soul searching needed amongst those who continue to actively deny this with silence including in universities www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
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Higher education has been destroyed in Gaza - Academics call for sanctions as Israel’s actions against education in Gaza draw condemnation @irishtimes (others remain completely silent) www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Higher education has been destroyed in Gaza
Academics call for sanctions as Israel’s actions against education in Gaza draw condemnation
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Catherine Connolly, whose campaign was rocked by a last-minute deepfake video, is predicted to win.
Ireland picks new president, polls indicate win for pro-Palestine candidate
Catherine Connolly, whose campaign was rocked by a last-minute deepfake video, is predicted to win.
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A Connolly landslide! So interesting that many of the minority arguing against Connolly have either actively denied or not commented in public on the genocide/Israeli war crimes in Gaza which is clearly out of step with Irish public sentiment and position of government parties
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 12mo agoCatherine Connolly: the outspoken leftwinger set to be Ireland’s next president
Assistant prof position in sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX816/a...
Assistant Professor in Sociology (Racism(s), Criminology, Cultural Sociology) at University of Limerick
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