Featuring work in Critical Zionism Studies, produced or curated by the ICSZ community of researchers.
Webinar: Intransigent power & mass uprising for Palestine
Nov. 21, 2023
Michael Arria, Isaac Kamola, Arun Kundnani, Mitri Raheb, and host Jenny Kelly.
On Palestinian Resistance
& the Al-Aqsa Flood:
Writing and context from the ICSZ community
Statement from the ICSZ Collective:
We stand with Palestinians in their struggle for land, life, and freedom, as we are committed to liberation for all people. As scholars and community-based researchers of Zionism, state violence, and racialized repression, we recognize that decolonization is not a metaphor and resistance in the face of long-duree settler colonialism and militarism is a crucial process for survival and freedom. We stand against Israelโs genocidal attacks on two million Palestinians imprisoned under siege, reinforced by even more repressive force sent from the United States.
Our work is to hold space for research and discussion that considers Zionism โ its politics, institutions, and ideas โ in the context of power. Public and media discourse surrounding the Al-Aqsa Flood that omits the Zionist ideology, colonialism, and ethnic cleansing underwriting Palestiniansโ acts of resistance only underscores the urgent need for Critical Zionism Studies.
Open Letter from the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionismโs Research Community
Oct. 20, 2023: More than eighty scholars and researchers from the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) released an open letter to universities and other institutions, demanding they retract their statements endorsing Israeli genocide against Palestinians.
During the past two weeks of Israeli attacks on Gaza, university administrators across the United States have released a wave of statements of support for Israeli military violence, stripped of references to the prior eight decades of Israeli colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and ignoring or directly endorsing the mass killing of Palestinians in Gazaโs โopen-air prison.โ
University administratorsโ anti-Palestinian statements โ which carry institutional weight but are generated by a small set of university officials โ have run in stark contrast to the thousands of global scholars who have signed letters denouncing genocide and apartheid, and tens of thousands of students joining campus protests to demand Palestinian freedom. As scholars and students who advocate against genocide and apartheid are doxxed, harassed, and fired, ICSZ scholars join others worldwide to denounce violence enacted by academic institutions, as well as by states.
Other writing from the ICSZ community
Why we created the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
(Rabab Abdulhadi and Heike Schotten, 8/24/23)
Why this image? About the ICSZ logo
(Emmaia Gelman, 7/16/23)
About the Institute & our work
Press release – Conference on โIHRA definitionโ of antisemitism to launch new Institute
Statement – In support of academic freedom & antiracist scholarship
FAQ – About the Institute and its work
Conversations
Creating an institutional space for the Critical Study of Zionism: A Conversation with Emmaia Gelman and Christine Hong
(Speaking Out of Place, 8/10/23)
Rabab Abdulhadi on why we need ICSZ
(Arab Talk with Jess & Jamal, 8/28/23)