In this episode, we invited Amira Jarmakani and Sean Malloy to talk about DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as a crucial term to unpack in order to understand how Zionist politics are working.

Amira Jarmakani is a professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and affiliated faculty with the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and LGBTQ Plus Studies at San Diego State University. And most importantly, Amira is on the advisory board of our very own Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. Sean L. Molloy is a professor of history and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California, Merced. And Sean is also, most importantly, a collective member of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.

This conversation builds on Amira’s talk From “Zionism is racism” to “antisemitism is racism” Sean’s talk From the “New Antisemitism” to the IHRA: The Evolution of Zionist Countermobilization that they presented at the Institute’s conference Battling the IHRA Definition: Theory and Activism in October 2023. During the interview, Amira also mentions a Vox article “How Republicans are weaponizing antisemitism to take down DEI.” And last, Sean’s article titled “A Safe Space for Apartheid, Zionist Organizations, and the Counter Mobilization Against Palestinian Solidarity on U.S. Campuses,” is coming out very shortly in the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal and we will post it when it’s out.

You can find the transcript and episode notes on our website criticalzionismstudies.org