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Palestine has always been a global phenomenon
Nadim Bawalsa is a historian of modern Palestine and the author of Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 (Stanford University Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Nikki Keddie Book Award and the 2023 Palestine Book Award. He is the associate editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.Shownotes:Nadim's book: https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/transnational-palestineWeavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism by Peter Winn: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/weavers-of-revolution-9780195045581Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian...
In Flames: On Iran and Intersectional Anti-Imperialism with Manijeh Moradian
Episode's resources:Iran and the US Anti-War Movementhttps://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/25872/Iran-and-the-US-Anti-War-MovementIran in Crisis: Seven Essays on the Obstacles to Freedomhttps://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192/Iran-in-Crisis-Seven-Essays-on-the-Obstacles-to-Freedom-IntroductionRaha Iranian Feminist Collectivehttps://www.rahafeministcollective.org/Havaar: Iranian Initiative Against War, Sanctions, and State Repressionhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230209153914/http://havaar.org/category/campaign/https://www.instagram.com/feminists4jina/https://www.instagram.com/decolonize_anarchism/
Introducing: In Flames
Introducing a new series of podcast shorts: In Flames. Episodes are anti-Zionist hot takes on what's happening right now. With rotating hosts from the Institute's Collective and Advisory Board. Subscribe so you don't miss new episodes.
Empire’s Laboratory: Walking with Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers, and jaguars
In this episode, Alex and Lara interview Linda Quiquivix about radical histories and traditions of resistance to colonialism, with a focus on Zionism and its instantiations in Latin America.Palestine 1492: A Report Back by Linda Quiquivix, available for free here: https://wildoxbooks.org/books/palestine-1492/Jimmy Johnson & Linda Quiquivix, "Israel and Mexico Swap Notes on Abusing Rights" found here: https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-and-mexico-swap-notes-abusing-rights/12475For Zapatista communiques see: https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/Mentioned in the episode: México Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization, found here: https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292708433/</p
The Anti-Defamation League’s Attacks on Professional Associations: What to Know and How to Respond
This episode is a recording of a webinar titled "The Anti-Defamation League’s Attacks on Professional Associations: What to Know and How to Respond," hosted by Scholars for Justice and Human Rights in Professional Associations on February 9, 2026. The focus of the session was the Anti-Defamation League's November 2025 report falsely alleging that over a dozen professional academic associations were riddled with antisemitism, based on interviews with a small number of pro-Israel voices inside these associations. Panelists discussed how we should understand the ADL today — an organization that once claimed to serve civil rights but is now partnering directly with...
Empire’s Laboratory: The Bombs Dropped in West Asia Explode at Home
In this first episode, ICSZ founding collective member, Lara Sheehi, is joined by advisory board member and co-host, Alex Aviña. Using Alex’s concept and analysis of the Palestine-Mexico border as an orienting frame, they talk about why this series feels especially urgent now, and also discuss his newest analysis about the US imperial aggression on Venezuela.Alex Aviña, “Notes from the Palestine-Mexico Border,” NACLA (Sept 3, 2025), https://nacla.org/notes-from-the-palestine-mexico-border.Alex Aviña, “The Cult of Hercules-Mammon is Back,” Foreign Exchanges (Jan 13, 2026), https://www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-cult-of-hercules-mammon-is-back.
Introducing: Empire's Laboratory
Empire's Laboratory is a mini-series co-hosted by ICSZ founding collective member Lara Sheehi and advisory board member Alex Aviña. Empire's Laboratory will provide a critical analysis of Zionism in Latin America. Subscribe so you don't miss new episodes.Learn more about the series, our co-hosts, and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism on our website - https://criticalzionismstudies.org
Normalization with Reem Farah
This episode looks at the keyword “normalization” in conversation with independent writer and researcher Reem Farah. Our discussion draws on Reem’s 2024 article “Ottolenghi and Tamimi's Cookbook, Jerusalem: Israel as Frame and Palestine as Subject” in the Jerusalem Quarterly. Reem analyzes the cookbook as an example of the normalization of Zionism, and explains why opposing normalization is a pillar of the fight for a free Palestine.Notes:1) This is the last episode in our keywords series, at least for now. As we’re wrapping up the keywords, we have a new mini-series in the works dedicated to...
Disarmament with Bikrum Gill
This week we bring listeners a rich and concise episode on “disarmament” as a keyword for the critical study of Zionism. It's a short talk by Bikrum Gill, a member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective and faculty at Virginia Tech, excerpted from a panel on Critical Zionism Studies and political theory at the 2025 American Political Science Association conference.Bikrum Gill, The Political Ecology of Colonial Capitalism: Race, Nature, and Accumulation (2024) - https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/300/monograph/book/133572Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective - https://www.anti-imperialists.com/
Securitization with Nicole Nguyen
In this episode we’re with Dr. Nicole Nguyen to talk through securitization as a keyword for Critical Zionism Studies. From manipulations of the idea of “safety” to tech giant Palantir’s dystopian “digital kill chain” in Gaza and surveillance-to-deportation machinery in the United States, we connect the dots between Zionist and U.S. militarisms. This interview was recorded in June 2025.Nicole Nguyen’s selected writings: https://clj.uic.edu/profiles/nicole-nguyen/Mohammed El Kurd, Untitled essay on Substack (8/29/25)Pro-Israel Group Censoring Social Media Led by Former Israeli Intell...
Confronting Zionist Expansionism
This episode is a recording of a webinar on Confronting Zionist Expansionism. Moderators Jennifer Mogannam & Amira Jarmakani talk with Abdaljawad Omar on Zionism’s territorial drive and Natalie El-Eid on weaponizing Druze in Palestine and Syria.This event was recorded on August 6 and is available as a video recording on our youtube channel.
From Above: Secure Community Network (SCN)
Most of the organizations we’ve covered so far in this mini-series purport to represent Jewish communities’ opinions. But the one we’re covering today is different. It’s not about opinions, it’s about putting the armed, carceral muscle behind other organizations. We’re talking about the Secure Community Network (SCN). There isn’t much research on the SCN, so rather than interviewing a scholar or journalist who wrote about it, in this episode Emmaia and Yulia talk about SCN based on the reporting that is available.