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Jun 2024
1h 32m

“Universities are complicit in Palestini...

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The brothers welcome Maya Wind, the author of Towers of Ivory and Steel, a searing critique of the Israeli academic establishment’s complicity in the regime of apartheid and genocide. They discuss the role played by Israeli universities in the establishment and maintenance of the Zionist project in Palestine, the nexus between universities and political repression and military violence, the appalling treatment of Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, and the urgent need for an academic boycott of the Israeli university system.

Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (2024)  https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/3009-towers-of-ivory-and-steel

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