April 2, 2024 at 7.00pm – 8.30pm

Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

Join Maya Wind, Naomi Klein, and Nadia Abu El-Haj for a discussion of how Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against Palestinians.

Israeli 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.

More information, including speaker bios, and to RSVP: Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom | HaymarketBooks.org

Order a copy of Towers of Ivory and Steel:  https://www.versobooks.com/products/3009-towers-of-ivory-and-steel