Unpacking Zionism

Bios:Lara Sheehi: is a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences, a licensed clinical psychologist, and the host of the Psychic Militancy podcast. Lara’s work focuses on psychoanalysis, the psychic refusals central to liberation struggles and life-making in the Global South, the psychic dimensions of resistance and revolution, and critical Zionism studies. She is author of the forthcoming book, From the Clinic to the Streets Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto, 2026) and the co-author, with Stephen Sheehi, of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine which won the Middle East Monitor’s 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is a member of the founding collective for the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and is on the advisory board for Forensic Architecture.Jordan Dunn: is a licensed clinical psychologist based in New York City. He works as a supervising psychologist and organizer for community action and reflection at the Greene Clinic, a sliding scale, community psychoanalytic, training clinic. He also serves as a council representative at the American Psychological Association representing APA Division 39 the society of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychology. Trained at the New School for Social Research, he has received multiple fellowships, and publishes on psychotherapy and culture. He organizes locally with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and is part of Jewish Psychologists for Justice, a grassroots organizing group fighting for collective liberation.Barry Trachtenberg: is a historian of modern Jewish history and the Holocaust and author of several books on Jewish history and the Nazi Holocaust. He has published on issues related to American support for Israel, Zionism, anti-Zionism, and antisemitism in venues such as Jewish Currents, the Guardian, Jacobin, the Forward, Electronic Intifada, and Mondoweiss. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Boards of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, the steering committee of the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network, and is Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Security, Race and Rights at Rutgers Law School. He holds the Rubin Presidential Chair in Jewish History at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.

Episode's resources:https://mondoweiss.net/2025/12/stop-calling-right-wing-criticism-of-israel-anti-zionism/

In this episode, Alex and Lara talk with Danya Nadar about the ways Zionism  is implicated in the ongoing destruction and plunder of land and resources in Guatemala, especially  through imported land-based practices and irrigation technologies, and  the ways that Indigenous people continue to resist.Bio: Danya Nadar is an Egyptian-Canadian PhD candidate affiliated with the Institute of Development Policy (IOB) at the University of Antwerp since 2020. From 2009, Danya worked as a documentary film and news producer focusing on social and political economy topics in North Africa and east of the Mediterranean, and where she is also part of the revolutionary media collective mosireen.org. In 2018 she switched careers to pursue her passion, conducting research alongside Indigenous peasant farmers. She was a research fellow (2019-2020) at the International Development Research Centre in Canada which allowed her to continue the research she had started in occupied Palestine (2018-2019) on ancestral knowledges related to seeds, land tenure, gendered social dynamics, and alternative/parallel food networks. Her current research looks at the interconnected ways food is weaponized by relationally comparing the colonization of Palestine (past to present) with that of Ch’orti’ territories in Guatemala’s east, and the ways ancestral knowledges related to land, seeds, and cosmo vision to resist land encroachment and dispossession towards reconstitution of ancestral territories.Show notes:https://agroecologynow.net/agricultural-research-in-times-of-the-eu-race-to-arms/ Antony Loewenstein book: https://antonyloewenstein.com/books/the-palestine-laboratory-how-israel-exports-the-technology-of-occupation-around-the-world/

Nadim Bawalsa is a historian of modern Palestine and the author of Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 (Stanford University Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Nikki Keddie Book Award and the 2023 Palestine Book Award. He is the associate editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.Shownotes:Nadim's book: https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/transnational-palestineWeavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism by Peter Winn: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/weavers-of-revolution-9780195045581Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora by Sarah Gualtieri ucpress.edu/book/9780520255340/between-arab-and-whiteExtra readings from Nadim:Nadim Bawalsa with the Arab Center Washington DC: https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/transnational-palestine/On the limits of Palestinian-Chilean solidarity with Palestine today: https://fromtheperiphery.com/2025/09/29/206-the-limits-of-palestinian-ness-w-pablo-abufom/A special issue in JPS on Palestinian migration before 1948: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/46/2?nav=tocList

Episode's resources:Iran and the US Anti-War Movementhttps://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/25872/Iran-and-the-US-Anti-War-MovementIran in Crisis: Seven Essays on the Obstacles to Freedomhttps://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192/Iran-in-Crisis-Seven-Essays-on-the-Obstacles-to-Freedom-IntroductionRaha Iranian Feminist Collectivehttps://www.rahafeministcollective.org/Havaar: Iranian Initiative Against War, Sanctions, and State Repressionhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230209153914/http://havaar.org/category/campaign/https://www.instagram.com/feminists4jina/https://www.instagram.com/decolonize_anarchism/

Introducing a new series of podcast shorts: In Flames. Episodes are anti-Zionist hot takes on what's happening right now. With rotating hosts from the Institute's Collective and Advisory Board. Subscribe so you don't miss new episodes.

In this episode, Alex and Lara interview Linda Quiquivix about radical histories and traditions of resistance to colonialism, with a focus on Zionism and its instantiations in Latin America.Palestine 1492: A Report Back by Linda Quiquivix, available for free here: https://wildoxbooks.org/books/palestine-1492/Jimmy Johnson & Linda Quiquivix, "Israel and Mexico Swap Notes on Abusing Rights" found here: https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-and-mexico-swap-notes-abusing-rights/12475For Zapatista communiques see: https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/Mentioned in the episode: México Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization, found here: https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292708433/

This episode is a recording of a webinar titled "The Anti-Defamation League’s Attacks on Professional Associations: What to Know and How to Respond," hosted by Scholars for Justice and Human Rights in Professional Associations on February 9, 2026. The focus of the session was the Anti-Defamation League's November 2025 report falsely alleging that over a dozen professional academic associations were riddled with antisemitism, based on interviews with a small number of pro-Israel voices inside these associations. Panelists discussed how we should understand the ADL today — an organization that once claimed to serve civil rights but is now partnering directly with the white nationalist right — and how we can configure resistance. The panelists included Emmaia Gelman, Amira Jarmakani, Isaac Kamola, and Lara Deeb, with commentary from Amy Hagopian and Roy Eidelson of SJHRPA. Emmaia Gelman is director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, co-chair of the American Studies Association Academic and Community Activism Caucus, and author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State (forthcoming from the University of California Press). Amira Jarmakani is a professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty with the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and LGBTQ+ studies at San Diego State University. She is a core member of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and a Member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective. Isaac Kamola is a professor of Political Science at Trinity College. He currently directs the American Association of University Professors’(AAUP) Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, which is committed to the pursuit of knowledge free from intimidation and retaliation. Lara Deeb is a professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at Scripps College. She co-chairs the Middle East Studies Association’s Task Force on Civil and Human Rights. The task force tracks the changing political and legal context as it impacts scholars of the Middle East and produces resources to support faculty and students. Amy Hagopian is a professor emeritus in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. She has been a leader in the American Public Health Association for over two decades, recently serving as chair of the editorial board of the Association’s journal. Last year, after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association’s International Health Section, the Association revoked her membership when an anonymous complainant claimed they were made to feel unsafe by her work for Palestinian health justice within the Association. Roy Eidelson is the past president of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence of the American Psychological Association. He is the author of Doing Harm: How the World's Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror.Video recording available here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jbInc34588

In this first episode, ICSZ founding collective member, Lara Sheehi, is joined by advisory board member and co-host, Alex Aviña. Using Alex’s concept and analysis of the Palestine-Mexico border as an orienting frame, they talk about why this series feels especially urgent now, and also discuss his newest analysis about the US imperial aggression on Venezuela.Alex Aviña, “Notes from the Palestine-Mexico Border,” NACLA (Sept 3, 2025), https://nacla.org/notes-from-the-palestine-mexico-border.Alex Aviña, “The Cult of Hercules-Mammon is Back,” Foreign Exchanges (Jan 13, 2026), https://www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-cult-of-hercules-mammon-is-back.

Empire's Laboratory is a mini-series co-hosted by ICSZ founding collective member Lara Sheehi and advisory board member Alex Aviña. Empire's Laboratory will provide a  critical analysis of Zionism in Latin America. Subscribe so you don't miss new episodes.Learn more about the series, our co-hosts, and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism on our website - https://criticalzionismstudies.org

This episode looks at the keyword “normalization” in conversation with independent writer and researcher Reem Farah. Our discussion draws on Reem’s 2024 article “Ottolenghi and Tamimi's Cookbook, Jerusalem: Israel as Frame and Palestine as Subject” in the Jerusalem Quarterly. Reem analyzes the cookbook as an example of the normalization of Zionism, and explains why opposing normalization is a pillar of the fight for a free Palestine.Notes:1) This is the last episode in our keywords series, at least for now. As we’re wrapping up the keywords, we have a new mini-series in the works dedicated to the movement that emerges out of K thru 12 schools in the US to resist Zionist attacks.2) If you are listening to this episode on Spotify, this is the last episode that we publish on this platform. After this episode, the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism is pulling our content from Spotify and will not be using the platform for our materials. This decision is a response to Spotify's chief executive, Daniel Ek’s $700 million investment in a military startup Helsing. Ek has now also become the chairman of Helsing, which is a company specializing in AI-powered combat drones and military software. Multiple musicians, including Massive Attack & King Gizzard,​​ already pulled their catalogs from Spotify and many users are canceling their subscriptions. We are joining this principled call to boycott Spotify over its ties to military technologies and manufacturers.Follow us on Apple podcast or other platforms.Other resources:Reem Farah, “Ottolenghi and Tamimi's Cookbook, Jerusalem: Israel as Frame and Palestine as Subject”Yara Hawari, “Arab Normalization and the Palestinian Struggle for Liberation”Jumana Manna’s film ForagersRabea Eghbariah, “The Struggle for Akoub & Za'atar: On Edible Plants in Palestinian Cuisine and Israeli Plant Protection Laws”

This week we bring listeners a rich and concise episode on “disarmament” as a keyword for the critical study of Zionism. It's a short talk by Bikrum Gill, a member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective and faculty at Virginia Tech, excerpted from a panel on Critical Zionism Studies and political theory at the 2025 American Political Science Association conference.Bikrum Gill, The Political Ecology of Colonial Capitalism: Race, Nature, and Accumulation (2024) - https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/300/monograph/book/133572Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective - https://www.anti-imperialists.com/

In this episode we’re with Dr. Nicole Nguyen to talk through securitization as a keyword for Critical Zionism Studies. From manipulations of the idea of “safety” to tech giant Palantir’s dystopian “digital kill chain” in Gaza and surveillance-to-deportation machinery in the United States, we connect the dots between Zionist and U.S. militarisms. This interview was recorded in June 2025.Nicole Nguyen’s selected writings: https://clj.uic.edu/profiles/nicole-nguyen/Mohammed El Kurd, Untitled essay on Substack (8/29/25)Pro-Israel Group Censoring Social Media Led by Former Israeli Intelligence Officers (Lee Fang and Jack Poulson, 7/11/24)What Big Tech’s Band of Execs Will Do in the Army (Wired, 6/28/25)Foundation to Combat Antisemitism “Command Center”

This episode is a recording of a webinar on Confronting Zionist Expansionism. Moderators Jennifer Mogannam & Amira Jarmakani talk with Abdaljawad Omar on Zionism’s territorial drive and Natalie El-Eid on weaponizing Druze in Palestine and Syria.This event was recorded on August 6 and is available as a video recording on our youtube channel.

Most of the organizations we’ve covered so far in this mini-series purport to represent Jewish communities’ opinions. But the one we’re covering today is different. It’s not about opinions, it’s about putting the armed, carceral muscle behind other organizations. We’re talking about the Secure Community Network (SCN). There isn’t much research on the SCN, so rather than interviewing a scholar or journalist who wrote about it, in this episode Emmaia and Yulia talk about SCN based on the reporting that is available.

Updates about our podcast: wrapping up "From Above," announcing new mini-series, and inviting your feedback.You can find us at criticalzionismstudies.org and on Instagram at @institutecsz.

This interview with Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine/Israel program at Arab Center Washington DC, is about lawfare. Lawfare refers to the use of law as a political weapon that is more concerned with inflicting damage on an opponent than prevailing with a particular legal argument or proving facts based on evidence. We discuss Zionist lawfare, who formulates its goals and targets, and who funds and carries out these efforts.Resources:Yousef Munayyer, “Spaces Beyond Borders: Israel’s Transnational Repression Network,” in Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine–Israel (2024).Emmaia Gelman, Astroturf Antisemitism Watchdogs, Jadaliyya (2024)Charity & Security Network, The Alarming Rise of Lawfare to Suppress Civil Society: The Case of Palestine and Israel (2021)

In this episode we are looking at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with journalist Alex Kane, senior reporter at Jewish Currents. This is the first of several episodes we'll have on the ADL, in an effort to grapple with its scale and long history. Lots of links in the show notes.History:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y-w8y83byMLcxFd1gvI1xqpcDUaCo1WW/view?usp=sharinghttps://jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-democratic-origins-of-the-jewish-establishmenthttps://www.bostonreview.net/articles/emmaia-gelman-anti-defamation-league/https://criticalzionismstudies.org/2024/10/26/from-the-new-antisemitism-to-the-ihra-definition/Reporting & Analysis:https://jewishcurrents.org/adl-shutters-flagship-anti-bias-programhttps://jewishcurrents.org/scoop-internal-adl-memo-recommended-ending-police-delegations-to-israel-amid-backlashhttps://jewishcurrents.org/examining-the-adls-antisemitism-audithttps://jewishcurrents.org/how-the-adls-israel-advocacy-undermines-its-civil-rights-workhttps://criticalzionismstudies.org/2024/05/28/the-anti-defamation-league-counterinsurgency-and-the-palestinian-liberation-movement/https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/educators-beware-the-anti-defamation-league-is-not-the-social-justice-partner-it-claims-to-be/https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45918Resistance to the ADL:www.droptheadl.orgRelated episodes:Unpacking Zionism: Mothers Against College AntisemitismBattling the IHRA Definition: The new 'terror' billAlso mentioned:Canary MissionAmcha InitiativeAmerican Jewish Committee

In this episode, we discuss the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) with the veteran of this podcast Amira Jarmakani, ICSZ collective member and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies at San Diego State University. NCRI, presenting itself as a research institute interested in studying false and hateful narratives online, often flies under the radar as a Zionist organization. Amira Jarmakani debunks NCRI’s claim to be a small, neutral, not-for-profit institution and clarifies that it is actually an online surveillance organization, closely tied with major US policy-making institutions, and a purveyor of the War on Terror. We look at the work of NCRI and its reports demonizing leftist organizing, conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, attacking BDS, and labeling Palestine solidarity organizing as “terrorism.”Also mentioned in this episode: Anti-Defamation League (ADL), AMCHA Initiative, Hetz, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), Charles Koch Foundation (CKF)Resources:Cox, Joseph. “Inside ICE’s Database for Finding ‘Derogatory’ Online Speech.” 404 Media. October 24, 2023.Poulson, Jack. “The Australian ad-tech firm secretly fueling 'psychological warfare' against U.S. university students.” All Source Intelligence substack. June 10, 2024.NCRI received $335,000 from Israel on Campus Coalition in 2021 “for a grant to build social media analysis.ICE contracted Giant Oak from 2014-2022 to flag people for deportation, according to AFSC.On FARA: Fang, Lee and Jack Poulson. “Leaked Israeli Docs Reveal Effort to Evade Foreign Agent Lobbying Law.” August 17, 2024.ISGAP received 80% of its annual revenue from the Israeli government (Aiden Pink/ The Forward)Joel Finkelstein's presentation to DHS,The FBI identified SNA as a valuable tool for law enforcement as early as 2013.Stop LAPD Spying, "The Algorithmic Ecology"Stop LAPD Spying, "Before the Bullet Hits the Body"Hate with Dylan RodriguezTerror with Arun Kundnani

This episode with Akhil Gopal and Matyos Kidane of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition looks at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is the parent organization of the Museum of Tolerance and a go-to Holocaust education provider. We look at how its work relates to what L.A. organizers call the "stalker state", and how anti-poor and racist politics – especially policing – are interwoven with Zionist politics and the War on Terror.Also mentioned: The Anti-Defamation League.

In this episode, Sean Malloy and Meira Gold discuss the Academic Engagement Network (AEN), which has been working behind the scenes on campuses, advising many of the administrators who have been imposing the repressive measures that we've seen throughout the Israeli genocide. AEN claims to have trained 3000 university administrators since 2020 and set up presence on 320 campuses. Along with the ADL, the AEL has now turned its attention to scholarly associations -- sites of growing solidarity with Palestine, and accordingly sites of concern for Zionist institutions.Also mentioned: Anti-Defamation League, Israel on Campus Coalition, Faculty Against Antisemitism Movement, ISGAP, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Israel Action Network, Brandeis Center, Hillel, Betar, MEMRI, Canary Mission, Amcha Initiative, Milstein Fund, Schusterman Fund, Marcus Fund, Heritage Foundation, American Jewish CommitteeResources:On Project Esther -https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/jvp-rejecting-project-esther/Previous episode discussion AEN - https://criticalzionismstudies.org/2024/04/01/amira-sean-dei/

In this episode of “From Above,” we discuss the Helen Diller Family Foundation – an organization that claims to support “global Jewish needs.” And while it indeed funds Jewish Studies Programs as well as hospitals, art museums, and playgrounds, what the Helen Diller Family Foundation is actually invested in is Zionist global needs. We will talk about the Helen Diller Family Foundation’s massive financial contributions to Zionist, reactionary, and far-right white supremacist organizations directly responsible for the genocide in Palestine. Our guest today is an organizer with JAWS, Jews Against White Supremacy, at UC Santa Cruz, Max Sárosi.Max Sárosi is a founding member of Jews Against White Supremacy UCSC and an undergraduate student of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Agroecology at the University of California Santa Cruz. Max is passionate about cultivating diasporic and decolonial Jewish community and comradery in solidarity with the Palestinian movement for liberation. Max's research interests include the entanglements of race, whiteness, and zionism as well as the histories, radical possibilities, and limitations of Jewish agroecologies.Also mentioned in the episode: Jinsa, Regavim,  Jewish Community Federation, Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Family and Children's Services, ADL, AIPAC, the Canary Mission, Friends of the IDF, The Israel Fund, CAMERA, The David Horowitz Freedom Foundation, AFDI, TPUSA, Beitar.Resources:JAWS UCSC @ UC Peoples' Tribunal: Testimony on Helen Diller FoundationThe Worst Evictors of San Francisco and OaklandNotorious landlords support attack campaigns against rent control ballot measures : IndybayUC Berkeley's Helen Diller Anchor House dorm sparks controversyNew UCSF hospital gets boost from the Diller Family FoundationHelen and Sanford Diller Family Endowment for Jewish StudiesMidwife who worked in Gaza punished in California for watermelon pin

WARNING: the word "rapist" appears in this episode several times in the context of Zionist smears. At the 15'48" mark, there is a mention of a Jewish man being shot by a CAMERA-affiliated agitator.In this episode on CAMERA and the Camera Education Institute, we’re hearing from education organizers Sana Fadel, a member of Sawa: Newton-Area Alliance for Peace and Justice, and Nora Lester Murad, of Drop The ADL from Schools. We talk through how Zionist institutions are using education as a platform for much broader political leverage, the split between the ways those institutions aim for respectability in the policy arena while using smear and violence in the streets, and the interconnections among Zionist organizations and figures. Be sure to read Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar on the history of these institutions, linked in the show notes.Also mentioned in this episode: Academic Engagement Network, Jewish Leadership Project, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, Campus Watch, The Daily Wire, The David Project, Faculty Against Antisemitism Network, Hillel, Islamist Watch, Israel on Campus Coalition, Middle East Forum, Scholars for Peace in the Middle EastLinks:droptheadl.org // droptheadlfromschools.org“Resistance to Repression and Back Again: The Movement for Palestinian Liberation in US Academia” (Lara Deeb & Jessica Winegar) https://www-tandfonline-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/doi/full/10.1080/19436149.2024.2375669A CAMERA With the Wrong Focus, https://www.pbs.org/publiceditor/blogs/ombudsman/a-camera-with-the-wrong-focus/Leaked NYT Gaza memo tells journalists to avoid words ‘genocide,’ ‘ethnic cleansing,’ and ‘occupied territory’ https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/What Goes Unsaid, https://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/what-goes-unsaid/Neocon Man, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/neocon-man/

This is the second episode in our series From Above, in which we look at Zionist institutions that wield their power to advance fascist repression of anyone who speaks against the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians. My guest today is herself an example of how this repression works. I am joined by writer and scholar Maura Finkelstein to talk about Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. In 2024, Maura was fired from her tenured professorship at Muhlenberg College for a social media post critical of Zionism and Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. We discuss what it means for Israel to be “at the heart of Hillel’s work” as their own website proudly admits, the role that Hillel plays in the repression of students, faculty, and staff, and what campaigns and organizations resist Hillel and its hegemony over Jewish campus life in the United States.Maura Finkelstein is a writer and anthropologist. She is the author of The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai, published by Duke University Press in 2019. In addition to academic writing, her essays have been by Post45, Electric Literature, Allegra Lab, Red Pepper Magazine, The Markaz Review, the Scottish Left Review, Mondoweiss, Middle East Eye, and Al Jazeera.Resources:https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45918/Astroturf-Zionism;https://palestinelegal.org/hillels-actions;http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/23/how-the-israel-lobby-captured-hillel-international-college-campus/;https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-campus-does-not-exist;https://drophillel.wordpress.com/history/

This is the first episode in a mini-series called "From Above," which looks at the Zionist organizations that have been laying the groundwork for Trump-era fascism and are now helping it advance. This mini-series isn’t so much a “how did we get here” as an effort to demystify the ongoing structures of Zionism that underwrite this present moment. In this episode, we’re joined by Zach Samalin from New York University to discuss the group called Mothers Against College Antisemitism (MACA), which was among the first Zionist groups to publicly embrace Trump’s deportation machine. RESOURCEShttps://www.nyu-aaup.org/aaup-nyu-report-nyus-president-mills-interfered-with-student-disciplinary-process-at-request-of-islamophobic-anti-palestinian-group/https://theintercept.com/2025/01/31/nyu-gaza-protesters-deport-maca-antisemitism/ https://politicalresearch.org/2024/10/30/understanding-rise-multiracial-right-and-why-it-matters

"From Above" is a new mini-series in our Unpacking Zionism podcast. It launches next week, but our teaser this week is a mini-show in itself. This series looks at the Zionist institutions that have been smearing, doxxing, and fueling ICE abductions and deportations in their efforts to shut down criticism of the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians. To kick off the series, we talk with researcher Hil Aked about the important idea of Zionism as "a social movement from above." Listen here and read Hil's book Friends of Israel for a more detailed explanation.

In this episode, we are joined by Mama Ganuush, a Palestinian drag artist and activist, to unpack “Cultural Boycott” as a keyword in Critical Zionism Studies. We discuss San Francisco’s Civic Joy Fund, its Zionist backers, and the joy-washing event the Fund is organizing on April 5 – the Tenderloin Eid Night Market. Mama Ganuush shares the investigative report into San Francisco’s Civic Joy Fund and explains why it is imperative to boycott that Eid event, other Civic Joy Fund’s activities, and all expressions of Zionist culture and propaganda. Mama Ganuush is a Palestinian drag artist, activist, and cultural organizer whose work is rooted in anti-Zionist, anti-colonial politics. They are a founding member of theHALACollective.com and co-host of the AIPACZombies.com podcast. Ganuush also founded the JAHAFilmFestival.com, a radical, joyful celebration of queer and trans voices through cinema. Through their drag performances and community organizing, they aim to build joy-centered spaces of intersectional resistance across all communities while centering trans voices, blending their artistic practice with their political activism to foster collective liberation.

In this episode, we’re unpacking “corporate capital” as a keyword in Critical Zionism Studies with our guest Felice Gelman. We are discussing the article she wrote for Mondoweiss titled “The ADL’s war on socially conscious investing is in service to Israel and the new oligarchy.” It is about the investment research firm Morningstar that earlier this year caved to an ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) pressure campaign and exempted Israel from the firm’s socially responsible investing ratings. So in unpacking the entanglements of corporate capital with Zionism, our conversation touches on the ADL and its long-standing campaign against the BDS movement, the Trump regime and the new oligarchy, and the broader implications of Morningstar’s decision to exempt Israel from investor accountability.Felice Gelman had a 25 year career on Wall St. as an investment manager and securities analyst, specializing in analyzing and investing in banks and other financial companies. She worked for two investment banks and then started her own asset management business which became the largest firm specializing in financial company investments. She has participated in Palestine solidarity efforts for 20 years.

In this episode we’re talking about building liberatory institutions — institutions of resistive, anti-Zionist knowledge production. We’re with Bassam Haddad of the Arab Studies Institute, the parent organization of Jadaliyya, Gaza in Context, and multiple other projects. Join us to talk about knowledge-making as a political project, escaping the constraints of capital, countering the power of conservative think tanks, and refusing the limits of the university.

In the fifth and final episode of “The Trouble with White Feminism” series, Jessie Daniels talks to ICSZ founding collective member Lara Sheehi about maintaining clarity about the material reality of Zionist settler colonialism while resisting psycho-affective tactics that Zionists use to unsettle us.Sheehi, Lara, and Stephen Sheehi. Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine. Routledge, 2021.https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429487880/psychoanalysis-occupation-lara-sheehi-stephen-sheehi Sheehi, Stephen. "Psychoanalysis under occupation: Nonviolence and dialogue initiatives as a psychic extension of the closure system." Psychoanalysis and History 20, no. 3 (2018): 353-369.Stovall, Natasha. “Whiteness on the Couch,” Longreads, 12 August 2019.https://longreads.com/2019/08/12/whiteness-on-the-couch/ The Zionist playbook is literally thisHasbara Handbook: https://www.middle-east-info.org/take/wujshasbara.pdf Mary Louise Fellows and Sherene Razack, The Race to Innocence: Confronting Hierarchical Relations among Women, 1 J. Gender Race & Just. 335 (1998), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/274.Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang: "Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–40. Wekker, Gloria. White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. (2016). Duke: Durham, NC. https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/86/White-InnocenceParadoxes-of-Colonialism-and-Race

In the fourth episode of "The Trouble with White Feminism" series, Kim-Hong Nguyen talks to Jessie Daniels, author of Nice White Ladies, about white ladies celebrities. They unpack why white Jewish celebrities like Debra Messing, Amy Schumer, and Sheryl Sandberg stake a claim on their brand of feminism in service of Zionism.Daniels, Jessie. Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role In It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It (Seal Press, 2021). https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jessie-daniels/nice-white-ladies/9781541675865/

In the third episode of "The Trouble with White Feminism" series, Jessie Daniels interviews Kim-Hong Nguyen, professor at University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, and author of Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (University of Illinois Press, 2024). This conversation takes us through the IHRA definition of antisemitism - which has been discussed here on the podcast before - and connects it to other forms of “supremacism,” including white imperial feminism.Nguyen, Kim Hong. Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (University of Illinois Press, 2024). https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087684Nguyen, Kim Hong. "Contemporary Fascism’s de-Judified Homo Sacer." Cultural Politics 11, no. 3 (2015): 315-328. https://read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-politics/article/11/3/315/25823/Contemporary-Fascism-s-de-Judified-Homo-SacerInternational Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, working definition of antisemitismhttps://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitismKenneth Stern, one of the drafters of this definition, with regrets about it (from 2019):“I drafted the definition of antisemitism. Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it.”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/13/antisemitism-executive-order-trump-chilling-effect

In this episode, Jessie Daniels and Kim-Hong Nguyen ask Melissa Weiner about her work exploring the affective ties that the Zionist project generates through Birthright trips and summer camps and how these ties become imbricated within heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism. “The Blue Box” - documentaryhttps://www.norma.co.il/blue-box/https://www.cineaste.com/winter2023/blue-box“Birthright Israel and #MeToo”https://jewishcurrents.org/birthright-israel-and-metooDr. Ruth, Sniperhttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dr-ruth-sniper“How Broadway Helped the Zionist Revolt Against Britain”https://newlinesmag.com/essays/how-broadway-helped-the-zionist-revolt-against-britain/

In the first episode of our special mini-series "The Trouble with White Feminism," host Jessie Daniels interviews Randa Tawil about the ways that white feminism serves the Zionist project.Randa Tawil is an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University and a fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies. Tawil is also a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective.Resources:Tawil, Randa. "A" Flying Carpet to Doom": Retracing Gender and Orientalism through the Transnational Journeys of a Syrian Migrant Woman, 1912–1949." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 43, no. 1 (2022): 120-144. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846735 Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide, by Elyse Semerdjian (Stanford University Press, 2023). https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29963 Tawil, Randa. Race in Transit: Mobilities between Syria and U.S. Empire (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).

Today’s guest is Palestinian filmmaker and writer Azza El Hassan and the keyword we are discussing is “visual remains.” This term refers to Palestinian photographs and films that have survived Israeli plunder, looting, and destruction. By recovering, collecting, and restoring visual remains, El Hassan grapples with the violent past and present in the search for a new visual experience emerging out of the ruins of Zionist colonial violence.Resources:Azza El Hassan “Working with Visual Remains”The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and the Archive of DisappearanceThe Void ProjectAzza El Hassan's films

The Trouble with White Feminism is a special mini-series presented by writer, professor, and member of the founding collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism Jessie Daniels. Across five episodes, Daniels and her colleagues will discuss how white feminism overlaps and intersects with Zionism. This series will help make sense of the present moment when reports of sexual assault are being weaponized to justify Zionist genocidal violence. Tune is for the first episode of The Trouble with White Feminism on December 2, 2024.https://criticalzionismstudies.org

Today’s episode is a double release with Nothing Never Happens – A Radical Pedagogy Podcast. In conversation with Tina Pippin and Lucia Hulsether, Unpacking Zionism co-hosts Yulia Gilich and Emmaia Gelman discuss ICSZ’s vision of producing resistive critical knowledge about Zionism in service of the movement for Palestinian liberation and with the explicit commitment to dismantling Zionism and colonialism. Coalition to End Zionist RepressionToolkit: Demand “NO IHRA”Journal for the Critical Study of ZionismFayez Sayegh, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (Palestine Research Center, 1965)ZINE: C. Heike Schotten, TERFism, Zionism, and Right-Wing Annihilationism You can find more resources on our website criticalzionismstudies.org.

Today’s special episode is a recording of the launch of the inaugural issue of the Journal for the Critical Study of Zionism (JCSZ). Our guest speakers, Diana Buttu and Robin D.G. Kelley, reflect on the devastation wrought by Zionism over the past year and the past century. We asked Diana and Robin to help us think through the question of how Zionist historiography and memorialization of October 7 is used to gin up anti-Palestinian racism, justify this latest chapter of the Nakba, and rationalize colonial violence. We recorded this event before the US presidential elections so it does not come up all that much in the conversation. Except, Diana and Robin both highlighted the importance of the Critical Study of Zionism as a necessary tool of the anti-Zionist, anti-colonial struggle and that struggle continues no matter which genocide supporter was ultimately elected president of the United States. Video recording of the launch is available here.

In this episode, founders of DecolonizePalestine.com Rawan Masri and Fathi Nimer discuss abolition as a keyword in Critical Zionism Studies. In June 2023, Rawan and Fathi published an article titled “Imprisoning Palestine: Zionist Colonialism through an Abolitionist Lens” in the Scalawag magazine. This piece connects abolition and decolonization by highlighting the centrality of carceral and punitive systems and structures to how Zionist settler colonialism operates. We recorded this conversation in September 2024, but it may be even more pressing now, since two weeks ago, on October 15th, 2024, the United States and Canada sanctioned and blacklisted the Palestinian prisoner support network Samidoun. The abolitionist lens that Rawan and Fathi offer us in their piece demonstrates that these attacks on and repression of organizations dedicated to Palestinian prisoner support are not isolated incidents, but a very obvious extension of those carceral and punitive systems that Zionism requires to function. Resources:DecolonizePalestine.comRawan Masri and Fathi Nimer, “Imprisoning Palestine: Zionist Colonialism through an Abolitionist Lens” in Scalawag Myth: Palestinians Fake their Own Atrocities (Pallywood)

This episode with Eli Meyerhoff looks at “antisemitism training” as a keyword for Critical Zionism Studies. Eli Meyerhoff is a fellow at the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, which is part of the American Association of University Professors. Last week's episode is related to this conversation — that one is about tacking anti-Islamophobia messages onto discussions of antisemitism — as in we’re worried about antisemitism… oh, and Islamophobia. So make sure to listen to both.Links:Eli Meyerhoff, Unmasking Indoctrination (Duke Chronicle 6/26/24) https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/06/062624-meyerhoff-unmasking-indoctrinationCosts of War Project https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/DropHillel.orgPARCEO: antisemitismcurriculum.org

This week we’re looking at Islamophobia as a keyword for Critical Zionism Studies. But it’s necessarily also about anti-Palestinian racism and DEI — diversity, equity, and inclusion. This is a special episode — rather than an interview, we’re bringing you leading thinkers and educators in conversation. We’re joined by Evelyn Alsultany, Nadine Naber, Nina Mehta, and ICSZ collective member Amira Jarmakani. This talk is called “Oh… and Islamophobia!” It was organized by ICSZ as part of the launch of the Coalition to End Zionist Repression, which is at bit.ly/campus-alliance. This talk was recorded on Oct. 16, 2024. Speakers:Evelyn Alsultany, University of Southern CaliforniaNina Mehta, PARCEONadine Naber, University of Illinois - ChicagoModerator:Amira Jarmakani, San Diego State UniversityPresented by the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism(criticalzionismstudies.org)as a launch calendar event of the Coalition to End Zionist Repression(righttorejectzionism.org)See the full calendar here: bit.ly/campus-allianceLinks shared:Information:- decolonizepalestine.com/rainbow-washing/faithwashing- uscpr.org/activist-resource/fighting-faithwashing-and-islamophobia/Curriculum/training resources:- project48.com/curriculum-overview- antisemitismcurriculum.orgDEI training resource:- parceo.org

This episode with philosopher John Harfouch considers “propaganda” as a keyword for Critical Zionism Studies. We’re looking at the work of Fayez Sayegh — the incredibly prolific Palestinian-Syrian-American scholar who was instrumental in theorizing Zionism and defining Arab American politics. Dr. Harfouch walks us through Sayegh’s studies of how Zionism works as a colonial process in Palestine and as a system of politics and messaging in the United States.Syllabus: Philosophical Approaches to the Question of Palestine (American Philosophical Association)https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonline.org/resource/resmgr/inclusiveness_syllabi/inclusiveness_syllabi_2/philosophical_approaches_to_.pdfFayez Sayegh, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (Palestine Research Center, 1965)https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC12_scans/12.zionist.colonialism.palestine.1965.pdfFayez Sayegh, “A Strange Concept of Reward and Punishment” (The Caravan, Mar. 26 1959) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ituULMZPUkHZzhug3ylQHunksB7euOze/view?usp=drive_linkJohn Harfouch's diagram of the Zionist movement as theorized by Sayegh https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j4JLKC62xVHJnUrj5h_M8bfZkl_3A4Qx/viewThere’s another Unpacking Zionism episode on the work of Fayez Sayegh: Zionism and anti-Zionism with Miriam Osman.

Today's guest is Jamal Nablusi, a diaspora Palestinian writer, researcher, and organizer. And the term he is helping us unpack in this episode is “Indigenous sovereignty.” In 2023, Jamal published an article called “Reclaiming Palestinian Indigenous Sovereignty” in the Journal of Palestine Studies, and that's the text that's guiding our conversation today. This interview was recorded in early September 2024, before Israel’s invasion of and attacks on Lebanon.​Dr Jamal Nabulsi is a diaspora Palestinian writer, researcher and organiser, living as a settler on Yuggera and Turrbal land. He currently works at the University of Melbourne, while holding research grants from the Antipode Foundation, the Institute of Human Geography, and the European International Studies Association. He is a Founding Collective Member of the Institute for Collaborative Race Research, a Global Indigenous Member of the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures at Macquarie University, as well as a member of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. His academic work has received international awards such as the 2024 British International Studies Association Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Paper Prize.

This conversation with Sophia Azeb is the third and last (at least for now) episode in our mini-series about “future” as a keyword in Critical Zionism Studies. We talk about Palestinian futurity and its entanglement with Palestinian history and memory of the past.Sophia Azeb (she/they) is an assistant professor of Black Studies in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Sophia's current book project, Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab, explores the currents of transnational and translational blackness charted by African American, Afro-Caribbean, African, and Afro-Arab peoples across twentieth century North Africa and Europe. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz, Sophia was a member of the faculty collective that founded the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Sophia is a frequent contributor to The Funambulist platform.Sophia Azeb, “Who Will We Be When We Are Free? On Palestine and Futurity”Sophia Azeb, “The “no-state Solution”: Decolonizing Palestine Beyond the West Bank and East-Jerusalem”Funambulist podcast with Sophia Azeb, “The “No-State Solution”: Power of Imagination for the Palestinian Struggle”Funambulist podcast with Sophia Azeb, “A Moment of True Decolonization”Workshops4Gaza - Sophia Azeb’s workshop “Black Studies and the Black Radical tradition,” Nov 3, 4-7pm PST on Zoom.

“Reclaiming Knowledge Production, Resisting Zionist Enclosures” is a recording of a panel discussion among scholars, organizers, and faculty labor leaders who are resisting Israel’s genocide of Palestinian in Gaza and also resisting the upsurging forces of intellectual and cultural repression in the US. The panel is moderated by Black studies scholar and ICSZ collective member Dylan Rodriguez, with brilliant talks from Heather Ferguson, Pranav Jani, Aaron Kirshenbaum, and Karim Mattar.We’re also really proud to announce that with this talk, we kick off the Coalition to End Zionist Repression — and its first campaign, called the Right to Reject Zionism. The coalition is a powerful new US-wide effort that brings together the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism with Palestine Legal, the National Lawyers Guild, the Palestinian Youth Movement, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, National Students for Justice in Palestine, National Faculty for Justice in Palestine, Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), and more. We’re working within the Campus & Academia Alliance within that coalition. You can find resources and events online at bit.ly/campus-alliance0:09 - Intro 5:44 - Opening remarks by Dylan Rodriguez, UC Riverside Center for Ideas & Society, Decolonizing Humanism (?) Programming Stream9:48 - Heather Ferguson, AAUP AFT Local 674116:12 - Pranav Jani, FSJP & Advisor, SJP-Ohio State Univ. & President, AAUP OSU30:38 - Aaron Kirshenbaum, Drop Hillel & Judaism On Our Own Terms (JOOOT)43:48 - Karim Mattar, MLA Members for Justice in Palestine & Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network55:43 - Q&A 1:20:58 - Closing remarks 1:29:15 - OutroResources:Coalition to End Zionist Repression and its inaugural campaign the Right to Reject ZionismAdalah resource on megadonorsInstitute for the Critical Study of Zionism "No IHRA" toolkitOSU Jews for PalestineDrop HillelMLA Proposed Resolution 2025-1 –Linguistics for Domination, Michel DeGraffTracking repression on campuses since August 2024Mondoweiss on repression on campuses since August 2024AAUP-organized National Day of Action for Higher Ed

In this episode, Pranay Somayajula helps us unpack the term hindutva as a keyword in Critical Zionism Studies. Hindutva is a strain of ethnic supremacy and Indian nationalism that Pranay will help us unpack in the episode. It is specifically anti-Muslim, and – like Zionism – it has been fueled by British colonialism. In the present, Hindutva is more and more entwined with Zionist politics. In our conversation, Pranay untangles hindutva’s parallels and connections to Nazism and to Zionism.In fact, this episode covers a lot of ground - we discuss the close military, political, and diplomatic relationship between India and Israel, the ideological underpinnings of the two countries’ nationalist regimes, the growing alignment of Hindu American organizations with the Israel lobby groups, and the solidarity and collaborations between anti-Hindutva and anti-Zionist organizers.Pranay Somayajula is an Indian-American writer and organizer, based in Washington, DC, who currently serves as Organizing and Advocacy Director for Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR). Pranay recently completed a MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where his dissertation research focused on preventive detention and the legacies of colonial rule in postcolonial India. Prior to studying at LSE, Pranay worked at HfHR as Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator. He received his B.A. in Political Science and International Affairs in 2022 from the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs.Today, we are sharing a lot of resources so our listeners can dive into this topic much deeper:Vijay Prashad’s article “How the Hindus became Jews”Pranay Somayajula’s senior thesis at George Washington University “The ‘Hindu Rashtra’ and the ‘Jewish State’: the Ideological Foundations of Ethnic Democracy in India and Israel”Pranay’s more recent essay called “we are all palestinians: notes on solidarity and collective resistance”Aparna Gopalan’sarticle, “THE HINDU NATIONALISTS USING THE PRO-ISRAEL PLAYBOOK” published in the Jewish Currents in 2023ICSZ Battling the IHRA Definition Podcast

This is part 2 of our ongoing mini-series on “future” as a keyword in Critical Zionism Studies. We talk to Eman Abdelhadi who explains that every liberation struggle is ultimately a struggle for a different future, one that rebels against the unjust present and past.Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist and writer who thinks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, religion, and politics. She is an assistant professor and sociologist at the University of Chicago, where she researches American Muslim communities. She is co-author of "Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072," a sci-fi novel published in 2022 with Common Notions Press. Her academic work has been published in numerous sociology journals and covered by press outlets such as the Washington Post, Associated Press, and NPR. Her public writing has appeared in In These Times, Jacobin, Truthout and other outlets. She is based in Chicago, where she is also a community organizer with the Salon Kawakib Collective, Faculty for Justice in Palestine and other formations.Eman and her co-author M. E. O'Brien wrote a speculative novel about a liberated future called Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072. Eman and M. E. also published a short story that is a continuation of the novel. The story is called “Sharaner Maash, or a haunting from the time before.” And in the episode, we mention a Truthout podcast “Palestine Solidarity Encampments Are a Rehearsal for Liberatory Self-Governance” that Eman was recently on.

In this episode, we talk with Nayrouz Abu Hatoum about “future” as a keyword in Critical Zionism Studies. This conversation demonstrates that despite the violence that the Israeli state inflicts on Palestinian daily life, violence that affects their ability to imagine and predict the future, Palestinian struggle for liberation is always already future-oriented.Nayrouz Abu Hatoum is associate professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University. She was the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University for 2018/2019, and is a co-founding member of Insaniyyat: Society of Palestinian Anthropologists. Her research explores visual politics in Palestine and focuses on alternative imaginations, peoples' place-making and dwelling practices in contexts of settler colonialism. Currently, she is working on her ethnographic project that examines the politics of visual arts production and its role in expanding Palestinians' imagination.This episode is the first in a short series of conversations about future and how central it is to the Palestinian liberation struggle, to the anti-Zionist struggle, and in fact, to all anti-imperialist, decolonial, abolitionist, liberatory struggles.You can read the transcript of this episode and the article we discuss, "Decolonizing [in the] future: Scenes of Palestinian temporality" by Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, on our website.

Today we are sharing the first episode of our new podcast Battling the IHRA Definition. You will hear from Christine Hong, speaking at our October 2023 conference titled “Battling the IHRA Definition: Theory and Activism.” Christine Hong is a founding collective member of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and a professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her talk is titled Securitizing California’s Ethnic Studies.Check out our website, criticalzionismstudies.org, to access the transcript and a video recording of this talk, as well as many more conference videos, transcripts, and papers, with new materials being regularly added. You can also find more resources about the IHRA definition and how to resist it.

Welcome to Battling the IHRA Definition, a new podcast by the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. This trailer is a quick introduction into “the IHRA definition of antisemitism,” which has been weaponized by Zionist institutions and policymakers to equate criticizing Israel with antisemitism and equate Zionism with Jewishness. The IHRA definition is a tactic used by political actors — particularly the right — to obscure Zionist politics, paper over US and other imperial interests in dominating Palestine, and to attack the anti-genocide movement. The IHRA definition has been adopted by institutions and corporations, used by media outlets, and become a widely-used talking point for smearing anti-Zionists, Palestinians, educators, human rights advocates, and more. And as popular resistance has grown for Palestine – popular resistance against Zionism – the IHRA definition is being used as a tool to attack it from many angles.And that’s why we are Battling the IHRA Definition. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss new episodes.