Back to School with ICSZ | 2026-2027 - Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism

Welcome back to school with ICSZ! This back to school series is meant to serve as a primer of the different resources that ICSZ provides and anchors in CZS.

This page will be periodically updated between September and October 2026. Check for new materials soon!

Book Club & Zine Library

ICSZ’s book club in Critical Zionism Studies, launched in Fall 2026. Each of these books challenges the normalization of Zionism, racism, and colonialism — and provides tools for dismantling them.

ICSZ’s zine library is a collection of zines on or relating to CZS that is digitized and archived for collective use and viewing.

Toolkits & Workshops

Who’s influencing policy on your campus? Public records research is key to understanding how Zionist, white nationalist, and oligarch movements are doing their work. From ICSZ’s Public Records & Archive Mapping project, an explainer zine and training video on how to construct public records requests. Public records and archive mapping toolkit is a resource for making public records requests and keeping archives of the ways that institutions are suppressing knowledge about Palestine

Newly updated! ICSZ’s No IHRA toolkit is for students, faculty, and staff who are working to stop right wing attacks on universities, knowledge, and communities, which use anti-Palestinian racism as their starting point.

Podcasts

Unpacking Zionism & Keywords: “Keywords” conversations with field-defining scholars. Each episode discusses a key concept for understanding Zionism and anti-Zionism, along with links to articles. Hosted by Emmaia Gelman and Yulia Gilich.
From Above: This mini-series looks at Zionist institutions one at a time as a “movement from above,” analyzing their claims and projects.
The Trouble with White Feminism: Mini-series on white/imperial feminism & Zionism, with Randa Tawil, Lara Sheehi, Melissa Weiner, Kim-Hong Nguyen, and Jessie Daniels.
Battling the IHRA Definition: On the role of the “IHRA definition of antisemitism” in colonialism, racial capitalism, and genocide. Talks with Amira Jarmakani, Sean Malloy, Barry Trachtenberg, Lana Tatour, Christine Hong, Jenny Kelly, Lara Friedman, and others.
In Flames: Anti-Zionist hot takes on things happening right now with rotating hosts from the Institute’s Collective and Advisory Board. Recent episodes on the Academic Engagement Network, the APA Resolution, Iran, and more.

Talks

2026 Speaker Series: Talks on new work in Critical Zionism Studies, by academic and community-based researchers. Find all talks from the Speaker Series on our YouTube.
- Promising Land: Compulsory Zionism, Whiteness, & Cultural Representations of Jewishness in Contemporary Britain with Tom Six and Umayyah Cable | Watch Here
- The Far Right’s So-called Civil War Over Israel: Staged Antagonisms as Counterinsurgency in the Fascist Arrangement with Matt Seriff-Cullick and Heike Schotten | Watch Here
- Zionism, Silicon Valley, & Digital Settler Colonialism with Omar Zahzah and Amira Jarmakani | Watch Here
- Algorithmic Death-World: Artificial Intelligence and the Case of Palestine with Sarah Fathallah and Amira Jarmakani | Watch Here
Past Talks and Speaker Series Videos
Talks on the Unpacking Zionism podcast: Timely panel discussions posted as special episodes of Unpacking Zionism.

Work Groups and Conferences

Workgroups: Reading & research groups in Critical Zionism Studies, including archival study, theory, & public records.
Conferences: Please join our mailing list or find us on social media for updates and announcements about ICSZ’s research conferences.