“Reclaiming Knowledge Production, Resisting Zionist Enclosures” is a recording of a panel discussion among scholars, organizers, and faculty labor leaders who are resisting Israel’s genocide of Palestinian in Gaza and also resisting the upsurging forces of intellectual and cultural repression in the US. The panel is moderated by Black studies scholar and ICSZ collective member Dylan Rodriguez, with brilliant talks from Heather Ferguson, Pranav Jani, Aaron Kirshenbaum, and Karim Mattar.

We’re also really proud to announce that with this talk, we kick off the Coalition to End Zionist Repression — and its first campaign, called the Right to Reject Zionism. The coalition is a powerful new US-wide effort that brings together the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism with Palestine Legal, the National Lawyers Guild, the Palestinian Youth Movement, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, National Students for Justice in Palestine, National Faculty for Justice in Palestine, Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), and more. We’re working within the Campus & Academia Alliance within that coalition. You can find resources and events online at bit.ly/campus-alliance

0:09 - Intro

5:44 - Opening remarks by Dylan Rodriguez, UC Riverside Center for Ideas & Society, Decolonizing Humanism (?) Programming Stream

9:48 - Heather Ferguson, AAUP AFT Local 6741

16:12 - Pranav Jani, FSJP & Advisor, SJP-Ohio State Univ. & President, AAUP OSU

30:38 - Aaron Kirshenbaum, Drop Hillel & Judaism On Our Own Terms (JOOOT)

43:48 - Karim Mattar, MLA Members for Justice in Palestine & Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network

55:43 - Q&A

1:20:58 - Closing remarks

1:29:15 - Outro

Resources:

Coalition to End Zionist Repression and its inaugural campaign the Right to Reject Zionism

Adalah resource on megadonors

Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism "No IHRA" toolkit

OSU Jews for Palestine

Drop Hillel

MLA Proposed Resolution 2025-1 –

Linguistics for Domination, Michel DeGraff

Tracking repression on campuses since August 2024

Mondoweiss on repression on campuses since August 2024

AAUP-organized National Day of Action for Higher Ed