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 Critical Zionism Studies.
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, with resources and invitations from authors. Each of these books challenges the normalization of Zionism, racism, and colonialism — and provides tools for dismantling them.
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.
- Empire’s Laboratory: A mini-series co-hosted by ICSZ founding collective member Lara Sheehi and advisory board member Alex Aviña. Our co-hosts will interview thinkers, colleagues, and comrades, helping us unpack the texture of Zionist presence, ideological interference, and agitation in Latin America.
Talks
- 2026 Speaker Series: Talks on new work in Critical Zionism Studies, by academic and community-based researchers.
- Find upcoming talks and announcements here.
- Find all talks from the Speaker Series on our YouTube.
- 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.
- FOIA Work Group
- Zionism and Racism Workgroup
- Among others
- Fellowships and Conferences: Please join our mailing list or find us on social media for updates and announcements about ICSZ’s research conferences and fellowships. You can also check out our ICSZ calendar!
Office Hours
- Office Hours: Schedule a conversation to talk over your ideas and research
Resources for Resistance
A collection of toolkits and resources from other organizations and groups within Critical Zionism Studies.
- Uncivil Collective/Civility Files
- Drop Hillel
- Drop the AEN
- US Civil Rights Commission Report
- “Federal Civil Rights Commission to White House and Universities: Zionism and Jewish Identity Are Not the Same Thing” | Response from Concerned Jewish Faculty and Staff
- “Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, US rights commission finds in rebuke to Trump” | The New Arab
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.
ICSZ’s zine library is a collection of zines on or relating to CZS that is digitized and archived for collective use and viewing.