Latest posts - Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism

Introducing: Empire’s Laboratory
Call for Papers: 2026 General Issue
Khirad Siddiqui: Campus Repression at UC Irvine
Carrie Zaremba: The Prison as a Front
Jacob Sirhan: How to Take Refuge in a Seed
Tatour, Lana and Ronit Lentin, eds. Race and the Question of Palestine (review)
On “Failed Silences” – Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, by Omar Zahzah (review)
Accumulate and Destroy: Inclusion as Conquest
Zionism Is Racism at 50: Transnational Resistance to Axes of Anti-Blackness and Anti-Palestinian Racism (Roundtable)
Editorial Preface
UNGA Resolution 3379, 46/86, & Critical Bibliography
Zionism and Racism
Green Technologies, White Colonies: Zionism and the Colonial Uses of “Indigeneity” and “Environmentalism”
How White Folks Became Jews: The War on Black Antisemitism and the Recalibration of Racial Regimes
From the International Cultural Front of the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation: A Discussion with Juan Fuentes about “Zionism Is Racism”
Dissident Forms: Images of Anti-Zionism from the Archives of Matzpen
Keyword + Microsyllabus: Zionism = Death
Submissions
“The being of Israel is the non-being of Palestine”: Understanding Zionism through the Work of Fayez Sayegh
It’s official: Zionism is indeed racism
When Universities Become Informants by Judith Butler
Gaza Uninhabitable: Challenging Colonial Frames of Erasure by Abdalrahman Kittana
Interaction of Political, Military and Economic Factors in Israel by Angelina Helou
Normalization with Reem Farah
Disarmament with Bikrum Gill
Securitization with Nicole Nguyen
Confronting Zionist Expansionism with Abdaljawad Omar, Natalie El-Eid, Jennifer Mogannam & Amira Jarmakani
Confronting Zionist Expansionism
From Above: Secure Community Network (SCN)
Anti-Zionism means Abolition
Unpacking Zionism – July 2025 Update
Call for Papers: #StudentIntifada (closed)
From Above: Lawfare with Yousef Munayyer
The National Education Association just voted to cut all ties to the Anti-Defamation League
Against Canada’s “IHRA Handbook”
Amicus Briefs: IHRA as unconstitutional anti-Jewish discrimination
Keyword: “Antisemitic”
From Above: the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with Alex Kane
Political Discourse and Cycles of Antagonism on Twitch: Combatting Antisemitism in the Creator Economy
From Above: Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) with Amira Jarmakani
Eli Aminov: From Land Redemption to Apartheid
Your Kufiyya scares me: Weaponizing Safety as Zionist Smear Tactic
Space Invaders: The spatial nature of anti-Palestinian smear
From Above: Simon Wiesenthal Center with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
From Above: Academic Engagement Network (AEN) with Sean Malloy and Meira Gold
From Above: Helen Diller Family Foundation with JAWS UCSC
From Above: CAMERA with Sana Fadel and Nora Lester Murad
From Above: Hillel with Maura Finkelstein
Our community, in solidarity with ICSZ
Zionist Hate Mail as Race/Gender Ideology
Smear & State Violence: from Nazi Antisemitism to US Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric
JCSZ blog: Thawra ثورة
April 17: Day of Action for Higher Ed
Resisting the New McCarythism & Complicity with Professor Rabab Abdulhadi
From Above: Mothers Against College Antisemitism (MACA) with Zach Samalin
Silent Violence Thus Impinges Israeli Colonialism on our Family Lexicon
Justice is indivisible: Palestine as a feminist issue
What is the Critical Study of Zionism?
Introducing: From Above
“You and your family should be shot by firing squad”: Zionist Smears, Threats, and Hate Mail as Weapon and Ideology
Cultural Boycott with Mama Ganuush
Corporate Capital with Felice Gelman
Liberatory Institutions with Bassam Haddad
Adaptive fascisms: Mapping the convergence of Zionism and white Christian nationalism
Palestine and the Asian American Question
Kreyòl Means Resistance, Palestine Means Freedom: Linguistics & power from Haiti to Palestine & beyond
Call for Papers: Zionism and/as Racism (closed)
Mission Statement
Against Definitions: The Politics of Antisemitism Definitions – Webinar
The Trouble with White Feminism: Ep 5 with Lara Sheehi
The Trouble with White Feminism: Ep 4 with Jessie Daniels
The Trouble with White Feminism: Ep 3 with Kim-Hong Nguyen
The Trouble with White Feminism: Ep 2 with Melissa Weiner
The Trouble with White Feminism: Ep 1 with Randa Tawil
Visual Remains with Azza El Hassan
Introducing: The Trouble with White Feminism
Practicing Pedagogies of Resistance and Liberation: The Critical Study of Zionism (Nothing Never Happens podcast)
Launch of the Journal for the Critical Study of Zionism with Diana Buttu and Robin Kelley
Abolition with Rawan Masri and Fathi Nimer
Launch: Journal for the Critical Study of Zionism
Antisemitism Training with Eli Meyerhoff
Clarifying our Principles: Zionism and Anti-Zionism
On Resisting the Weaponization of Antisemitism
Community Letter to Montgomery County, Maryland
Annotated IHRA Definition
Keyword + Microsyllabus: The Antisemitism Industrial Complex (AIC)
On Targeting an Arab Woman: Settler Colonial Outposts with Intent to Harm
IHRA Comes to Washington Square
Unveiling the Chilly Climate: How Pro-Palestine Speech is Suppressed in Canadian Universities
Legislating Hate: Pro-Israel Advocacy and Hate Speech Criminalization in Canada
From the “New Antisemitism” to the IHRA Definition
Our Bond with Israel: US Jews’ Affective Attachments to Palestine, Palestinian Erasure, & the IHRA Definition
Sayegh’s Critique of Zionism and the IHRA Definition: Notes Toward a Theory of the Antisemitism Industrial Complex
Demystifying Antisemitism: A Critical Historiography
Editorial Preface to Vol. 1
Reflections on the First Year of ICSZ
Webinar: Hasbara in Media and Film: Strategies, Tactics, and Resistance
LAUNCH EVENT: Journal for the Critical Study of Zionism
Webinar: Exposing White Nationalist & Zionist Alliances amid Rising Authoritarianism
Oh… and Islamophobia! with Evelyn Alsultany, Nina Mehta, Nadine Naber, & Amira Jarmakani