Below are some of the ICSZ workgroups that are currently active. Each workgroup’s meetings are open to members of all ICSZ workgroups, as well as advisory board and collective members. If you are interested in being added to a workgroup, please be in touch for more information: info@criticalzionismstudies.org.
Public Records and Archive Mapping
The Public Records and Archive Mapping workgroup is focused on collecting, collating, and providing avenues for generating new archives. Specifically, we are working on constructing an archive of contemporary Zionist repression; and on building an archive of the way contemporary Zionist organizations are working through institutions to suppress knowledge about and advocacy for Palestine.
Contact: foia@criticalzionismstudies.org
Sayegh & Beyond
[Description in development.]
Zionism & Race
This workgroup primarily serves as a place to discuss research-in-progress. Its aim is to gather, support, and share research on Zionism’s role in making, limiting, and leveraging ideas about race. This includes examining Zionism, both historically and contemporarily, as a project of racial rule, embedded in Western colonialism, white supremacy, and racial capitalism. It is also interested in the intersections between Zionism as a racial-colonial project and other structures of dominance such as gender, sex, class, and (dis)ability.
Critical Zionism Studies research chat
A conversational space for sharing research queries in Critical Zionism Studies, across disciplines.
Arts Council
Workgroup in formation, exploring pathways for moving anti-Zionist knowledge into cultural commonsense through art.
Past workgroups:
Engaging the Sayegh Archive
Among other accomplishments, Fayez Sayegh founded the PLO Research Center in 1965. In his own writing, Sayegh devoted thousands of pages to a critical analysis of Zionist ideology. His archive also gathers an important collection of Arab-American, PLO, U.N., anti-colonial, and student movement history. This group reads and engages with documents from Sayegh’s writing and the assemblage of his archive.
Campus & Academia Alliance
ICSZ convemed the Campus & Academia alliance as a core member of the Coalition to End Zionist Repression. See some Campus & Academia alliance webinars and ICSZ toolkit: Demand “No IHRA”