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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.

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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Journal for the Critical Study of Zionism

Coming soon! JCSZ Volume 3: Ethnic Studies Special Issue

See previous issues

Journal for the Critical Study of Zionism

Wrapping up our Empire’s Laboratory with co-host Alex Aviña and Emmaia Gelman

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Podcasts & Talks

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.

Underground Fire Fellowship

Fellowships & Conferences

Apply by October 16!

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The Underground Fire fellowship supports SWANA and Global South critical lenses on Zionism and builds intellectual connections among CZS researchers in the US and the Global South. Specifically, the fellowship supports scholarly research/writing works in progress by faculty in Palestine, the Global South, and the United States who are also mentoring student researchers (undergrad or grad) in CZS. Fellowships will be geographically distributed to form a cohort of scholars thinking together across contexts.

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