Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism

Research & community in
Critical Zionism Studies.

ICSZ supports the development of Critical Zionism Studies with resources for academics and activists. The Institute’s work includes fellowships, collaborations, conferences, and publications that expand the reach of research.

ICSZ’s Points of Unity are the basis for our work.

Underground Fire Fellowship

Applications now closed. Decisions announced in December.

NEW JOURNAL ISSUE: Zionism from the Standpoint of Ethnic Studies

Journal

Special Issue | Volume 3, Issue 1 | Fall 2026

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The Editorial Collective for the Journal of the Critical Study of Zionism is pleased to present this special issue on ethnic studies under Zionist attack, guest edited by ICSZ Collective member Christine Hong. This issue represents an important intervention into the critical study of Zionism, elucidating the fight for critical ethnic studies in California as a key site of anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist struggle.

Back to School Resources | 2026-27

ICSZ’s back-to-school bundle provides resources for study and teaching in Critical Zionism Studies. Book club-in-a-box, syllabi, organizing tools, zine library, and more.

Upcoming Talks

Podcasts & Talks

Mohan J. Dutta, 10/19, 5pmET: Tracking the Zionist/Right-Wing “Civility Industry”
Mohamed Khougali, 11/6, 11amET: Zionism’s Contagious Anti-Democracy & Sudanese Revolt
Joshua Briond, 11/11, 3pmET: The Judas Class: Black Elite Zionism and Political Betrayal
Emmaia Gelman & Stephen Sheehi, 12/4, 3pmET: Zionism’s Brownface & Anti-Blackness
Jairo Funez Flores, 12/18, 3pmET: Counterinsurgency and Knowledge Production in Times of Genocide

Al-Aqsa Flood: Engaging & Imagining Anticolonial Resistance

Oct. 7, 2026 – Announcing a Year-Long Collaborative Study

Al-Aqsa Flood: Collaborative Study

On the third anniversary of al-Aqsa Flood, the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism announces a year-long project of study of this historic act of Palestinian resistance and its meanings and consequences for our shared worlds and struggles for liberation. We gather to study resistance itself, particularly Palestinian insights from before and after al-Aqsa flood, and ways that global movements have responded to and learned in tandem with Palestinian struggle during these past three years. We study Zionist and global colonial power in the context of al-Aqsa Flood, reckoning with the expanding and apparently bottomless depths of violence, and the cultures of normalized violence, that it produces.

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Book Club in a Box

Presented by their authors, each of these books challenges the normalization of Zionism, racism, and colonialism — and provides tools for dismantling them.