Israeli scholar Maya Wind joins us for Part 2 of her interview about her new book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom.

Maya Wind: Destruction of Gaza's Universities Part of Broader Israeli Project to Destroy Palestinian Liberation

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Maya Wind: Destruction of Gaza's Universities Part of Broader Israeli Project to Destroy Palestinian Liberation

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