Listeners may have heard Maura on a special episode we aired last year about academic freedom and Palestine. In this episode, Maura returns for a more in depth conversation about her educational journey in the Palestine solidarity movement. We discuss her being fired from her tenured position and hear stories from her everyday classroom practice. She offers a glimpse of her time as a principled high school student encountering Edward Said's work and reminds of a need to be as loud and forceful as possible in the fight for Palestinian liberation.

Anti-Zionist education doesn't just mean unlearning Zionism. Many Jews, including today's guests, have undertaken educational projects where anti-Zionism is a starting point. In our conversation, the Haiven family take us through community building and ostracization from the Jewish community in Canada, learning and practicing their own version of Jewish traditions, and the sustaining power of rage. The whole episode is like listening in on an everyday conversation around a radical dinner table.

Whether at the Penn encampment or marching in the streets of Philadelphia, the Jewish Boomers Against the Occupation in Palestine have been a visible force of Palestinian solidarity work. In this episode, the group's co-founders, Sukey Blanc and Rachel Martin, take us through decades of friendship and intersectional organizing.

In this episode, comedian Jess Salomon talks about growing up in Montreal and "getting the Zionism" from her famous synagogue. She then tells us about her former life as a human rights lawyer in The Hague (and offers an impeccable Dutch accent). There's also a lot of conversation around learning about Palestine and Palestinians through love and comedy. Throughout the episode, Jess tells us about the small yet robust world of anti-Zionist Jewish comedy. The episode also includes us imagining an anti-Zionist remake of The Jazz Singer!

Donna and Nina are the co-directors of PARCEO, a community research, resource, and education center. In this episode, they talk about their social justice upbringings and retell the story of meeting each other at a wedding, which seems like kismet. We talk about many of their projects including their collaboratively-created Nakba curriculum, their curriculum on antisemitism that focuses on collective liberation, and how PARCEO might be an antidote for the ADL.

In this episode, Josh and Shoshana discuss growing up Jewish in Toronto and their different pathways to becoming anti-Zionist Jews. They also explore what it's like being anti-Zionist Jews in Germany, a nation-state whose stated purpose for existing is to provide unwavering support to Israel. Josh and Shoshana bring intensity, care, and amazing sibling banter to this wide-ranging discussion.

Shoshana Schwebel is a PhD candidate in German Studies at the University of British Columbia.

Josh Schwebel is an artist whose artistic practice stems from a deep need to understand the world through applied questions, coupled with an uninhibited allergy to authority. He does exhibit and publish his work internationally and within Canada with a variety of non-commercial structures, but these engagements are not the benchmarks of his practice. He sustains his relationship with art through a concern for the world as it could be, and in conversation with the work of others who need to engage with their world in similar ways.

Recording of a live event on academic freedom and Gaza, recorded on September 30th at Stockton University.

Eli wrote a book, Beyond Education, that most directly influenced the ideas that have shaped this podcast. In addition to discussing his work as it relates to Palestinian liberation and scholasticide, Eli shares a thoughtful, deeply personal educational biography. He describes feelings of unbelonging in Jewish summer camp, joyous moments of radicalization in basement punk shows, encountering Arundhati Roy and Edward Said during undergraduate studies, and a million different organizing projects that study and struggle toward another world.

Eli Meyerhoff is a visiting scholar in Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and program coordinator of the Social Movements Lab. He earned a PhD in political science from the University of Minnesota. Eli is the author of Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World

In this episode, Sol talks about family histories, the role of collective study in unlearning (with shoutouts to radical bookstores like Red Emma's), and comics as a form of public pedagogy.

Solomon J Brager is the author of Heavyweight [William Morrow 2024] and other comics, a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artists Fellow, a member of the Pinko magazine editorial collective and the director of community engagement at Jewish Currents magazine.

In this episode, Dr. Raz Segal talks about the sense of belonging he experienced growing up in Israel, studying the Holocaust, learning from Palestinian scholars and activists in East Jerusalem, and his current work to name and end the genocide in Gaza.

Dr. Raz Segal is an associate professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the endowed professor in the study of modern genocide at Stockton University.