Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
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How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against Palestinians
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights.
As this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against
Palestinians. Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research laboratories all service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education, stifle critical scholarship, and violently repress student dissent. Towers of Ivory and Steel is a powerful expose of Israeli academia’s ongoing and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project.
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights.
As this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against
Palestinians. Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research laboratories all service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education, stifle critical scholarship, and violently repress student dissent. Towers of Ivory and Steel is a powerful expose of Israeli academia’s ongoing and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project.
Publisher
Verso
Publication Date
2/13/2024
ISBN
9781804291740
Pages
278
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About the Author
Maya Wind
Maya Wind is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Black Study. She received her PhD in American Studies from New York University, and was previously a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
Her scholarship 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. Her first book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso 2024) argues that Israeli universities are enlisted in Israel’s settler-colonial project.
Her current book project, which draws on her ethnographic fieldwork and doctoral dissertation, argues that scientific and social experimentation with Israeli citizens is foundational to global technologies and models of security. She has received support for this project from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the Killam Laureates Trust.
Maya researches, writes, and teaches in collaboration with local and transnational coalitions organizing for abolition, demilitarization, and decolonization.
Her scholarship 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. Her first book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso 2024) argues that Israeli universities are enlisted in Israel’s settler-colonial project.
Her current book project, which draws on her ethnographic fieldwork and doctoral dissertation, argues that scientific and social experimentation with Israeli citizens is foundational to global technologies and models of security. She has received support for this project from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the Killam Laureates Trust.
Maya researches, writes, and teaches in collaboration with local and transnational coalitions organizing for abolition, demilitarization, and decolonization.
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