Dr Laurence Davis of the Department of Government in UCC is well known for his unquestioning anti-Israel stance and it never fails to amaze me how one person could be so totally one sided and blind in his approach to this very complex question.

Anthony Spencer (Letters, Aug 15) asserts in an indignant letter that there is ‘no discrimination of Israeli Arabs’.

The first Palestinian woman to represent a Palestinian party in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, will speak at a public meeting in Cork tomorrow night.