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DEADLINE EXTENDED! Call for Proposals: Due September 30, 2026
With this issue, JCSZ seeks to generate a broader understanding of the impacts and effects of Zionist imperialism on peoples and lands throughout the world. We encourage contributions that address the above-mentioned topics as well as those listed below from scholars, activists, artists, and cultural workers (or other topics as relevant to the broader call). We are particularly interested in work from and/or centering the Global South.
Please submit 400-500-word proposals/abstracts to journal@criticalzionismstudies.org by September 30, 2026. For full consideration, please include author/participant name(s), affiliation(s) (where appropriate), contact information, and a 100-word (maximum) biographical statement. Full manuscripts will be due by January 15, 2027.
If you have questions about whether a topic would be relevant for submission to this call, please email us at: journal@criticalzionismstudies.org
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2027 Underground Fire Faculty Fellowship
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Applications open!
2027 Underground Fire Faculty Fellowship
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.
Applications due October 16!
Also coming soon: Testimonies to the US Commission on Civil Rights
What we’re reading | Works from the collective, the community, & beyond:
Palestine Is Shrinking, Palestine Is Everywhere by Sherene Seikaly
by Sherene Seikaly The realities we inhabit continue to outstrip…
Moral abdication: There’s no hiding a genocide
by Nasser Abourahme Those that want to deny the Gaza…
This is Hell Podcast: The Anti-Defamation League & The Racial State
by Emmaia Gelman Emmaia Gelman joins This Is Hell! to…
On “The Shame of the American Jewish Establishment” by Emmaia Gelman
by Emmaia Gelman Though Beinart’s article “The Shame of the…
Grief and Liberation: Decolonial Praxis in the Face of Genocide
by Amira Jarmakani Chapter from Decolonial Entanglements: Praxis, Pedagogy, and…
Australia’s plan to adopt definitions of racism amounts to enforcing Zionism
by Alana Lentin In response to the Bondi Beach attack,…
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