Tuesday 30 April, 16:00-18:00 BST
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At this event, Dr Maya Wind will launch her new book: Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom, published by Verso in 2024.
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 exposure of Israeli academia’s ongoing and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project.
Maya Wind is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her research on the reproduction and international export of Israeli security expertise has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Killam Laureates Trust.
This book launch is co-hosted by the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge, the Centre for Lebanese Studies, Cambridge University College Union (UCU) and Cambridge University Palestine Solidarity Society.
This event is part of a tour of the UK and Ireland organised by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP).