The passed motion requests TUI members to “cease all cultural and academic collaboration with Israel, including the exchange of scientists, students and academic personalities, as well as all cooperation in research programmes”.
Dublin sociology lecturer and anti-Israel activist David Landy said the move “set an historic precedent”.
“We congratulate the TUI and call on all Irish, British and European academic unions to move similar motions. Undoubtedly apologists for Israeli apartheid will complain that such motions stifle academic freedom, but this is nonsense,” he said.
The TUI represents teachers and lecturers working in all levels of education across the country and has more than 14,500 members.
