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DESCRIPTION:Join Maya Wind, Naomi Klein, and Nadia Abu El-Haj for a discussion of how 
 Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against 
 Palestinians.\n\nIsraeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as 
 liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. In her new book, Towers of Ivory 
 and Steel, Maya Wind draws on extensive research in English and Hebrew to 
 shatter this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly 
 complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights. The book shows that 
 Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel’s system of oppression 
 against Palestinians, with whole disciplines, degree programs, campus 
 infrastructure, and research laboratories all bolstering Israeli occupation 
 and apartheid, while simultaneously stifling critical scholarship, 
 violently repressing student dissent, and violating the rights of 
 Palestinians to education. In this launch event, Maya Wind will be joined 
 by Nadia Abu El-Haj and Naomi Klein to discuss Israeli academia’s ongoing 
 and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project, and what we 
 can do to oppose it.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nMaya Wind is a Killam Postdoctoral 
 Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British 
 Columbia. Her scholarship broadly investigates how settler societies and 
 global systems of militarism and policing are sustained, with a particular 
 focus on the reproduction and export of Israeli security expertise. She has 
 received support for her research from the National Science Foundation, the 
 Social Science Research Council, and the Killam Laureates Trust.\n\nNadia 
 Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Department of Anthropology 
 at Barnard College and Columbia University, and Co-Director of the Center 
 for Palestine Studies. Prof. Abu El-Haj is the recipient of numerous 
 awards, including from the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner Gren 
 Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Harvard Academy for Area and 
 International Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and 
 the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Among other publications, she is the 
 author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial 
 Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society, which won the Albert Hourani Annual 
 Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association in 2002; The 
 Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of 
 Epistemology; and Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in 
 Post-9/11 America.\n\nNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, 
 columnist, and the international bestselling author of nine books published 
 in over 35 languages including No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes 
 Everything, No Is Not Enough, On Fire, and Doppelganger: A Trip into the 
 Mirror World, which was published in September 2023. Her writing has 
 appeared in leading publications around the world, and she is a columnist 
 for The Guardian. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of 
 Geography at UBC and the Director of Community Engagement for the Centre 
 for Climate Justice.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/03/31/18864702.php
SUMMARY:Webinar: Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
LOCATION:YouTube\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f0JydhiYps
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/03/31/18864702.php
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