Maya Wind
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Author, Towers of Ivory and Steel | UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow @UCRiverside
Joined January 2024
20 years ago @PACBI called for the boycott of Israeli universities. Responding to this call, I wrote a book investigating Israeli universities' complicity in settler colonialism. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom is out today @VersoBooks
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Courageous students building libraries and negotiating for divestment and academic boycott across campuses and liberated zones: We have made Towers of Ivory and Steel available for free download for your use. Power to the students! .
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As the new academic year begins, we must recommit to stand with our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza and to hold Israeli universities accountable for their role in destroying Palestinian campuses #AcademicBoycottNow.
Gaza’s two major university campuses, Al-Azhar University and the Islamic University, before and after they were bombed and destroyed by Israel.
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Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was shamelessly suspended by Hebrew University for courageous analysis and critique that is a model for us all. I joined her on @democracynow to discuss why we must urgently heed @PACBI's call for #AcademicBoycottNow .
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Huge congratulations to the phenomenal student and faculty organizers at Ghent on this victory! I had the privilege of meeting them at their encampent last week, and to witness not only their brilliant campaign building but also their deeply inspiring worldmaking.
Groundbreaking update: After committing to cut ties with 3 Israeli academic institutions, Ghent University will now cut ties with *all* Israeli universities. It also commits leading the call for the EU to exclude Israel from EU research funding programs.
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Israeli universities are complicit in Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid, and now genocide. An excerpt of my book out with @VersoBooks #AcademicBoycottNow .
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To celebrate the historic wins across Belgian universities and to discuss how we continue to organize for full academic boycott, please join us for this great panel in Brussels this evening!
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While Nadera has just been released, she is not out of danger. We have to keep up the international pressure and hold Hebrew University accountable #AcademicBoycottNow.
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It was an honor to join @sareemakdisi @UssamaMakdisi and @KarimMakdisi on @MakdisiStreet to discuss how Israeli universities sustain settler colonialism and genocide and how we mobilize across our universities for #AcademicBoycottNow.
🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧. “Universities are complicit in Palestinian unfreedom” w/ Maya Wind. The brothers welcome @mayaywind, the author of Towers of Ivory and Steel, a searing critique of the Israeli academic establishment’s complicity in the regime of apartheid and genocide.
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All students and scholars should read this analysis from the @PalFeminist on Zionist sophicide and the feminist praxis we need for true academic freedom
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Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a courageous scholar and activist. For years she has been the target of harassment campaigns for her uncompromising analysis. Today, Hebrew U suspended her so Zionist students can be "safe" from critique of #GazaGenocide.#AcademicBoycottNow
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Across our campuses, Palestine is liberating us. This historic moment demands accountability. Looking forward to meeting faculty and student organizers in England and Scotland for conversations about how to decolonize our universities and organize for Palestinian freedom. Join us
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What a privilege to meet with the brilliant student and faculty organizers at Trinity on the day of this historic victory. Thank you @TrinityBDS and @AfPTrinity for leading the way! #BDS #AcademicBoycottNow .
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"Nuseirat, like all massacres committed by colonialists, whether in Algeria, South Africa, Ireland, or other settler colonies, will be a signpost in our long walk to freedom. Only those who stand on the right side of history can read the signs.". Essential reading by @haidareid.
"Nuseirat, one of Gaza’s eight refugee camps, has become a major component of my national and class consciousness, a place of both destitution and revolution.". By @haidareid for @Mondoweiss
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Israeli universities are complicit in this #AcademicBoycottNow.
Israel's targeted attacks have killed many academics in #Gaza, especially those with advanced degrees. The deliberate & pervasive targeting of educational institutions is an additional manifestation of the ongoing crime of genocide Israel has been committing since 7 October 2023
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A great template for academic boycott organizing.
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis pledges no ties with Israeli academic or other institutions complicit in Israel’s genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity against Palestinians. ASCA further commits to no procurement from complicit companies.
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Huge congratulations to the amazing student and faculty organizers at Pitzer on this victory! Let us follow their lead and close all study abroad programs at Israeli universities #AcademicBoycottNow.
In "Towers of Ivory and Steel," @mayaywind positions the University of Haifa as a site of ongoing Israeli settler colonialism. We consulted her text to generate a non-exhaustive list of reasons why U.S. academia should follow Pitzer's lead in boycotting any ties w/ the University
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Recommended book! . Rich with groundbreaking research, the book illustrates how Israeli academic institutions are and have always been an integral part of Israel’s crimes against Palestinians, which now include #GazaGenocide. Purchase via @Versobooks:
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As a proud former @ColumbiaSJP member, I'm looking forward to being back on campus and joining @NadiaAbuElHaj1 tonight at the Center for Palestine Studies
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Please read and share the latest Al Mezan report on scholasticide in Gaza.
As millions of students worldwide start a new academic year, over 600,000 Palestinian school and university students in Gaza face another year of lost education due to Israel's ongoing genocide. Our latest:.
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The students organizers and @dutchscholarsforpalestine across encampments in the Netherlands are facing violent state repression but they are standing strong! Looking forward to learning from them and discussing how to mobilize for justice on all our campuses this week!
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Another important win! #AcademicBoycottNow.
We commend the @AAUP for dropping its biased, unethical policy opposing academic boycotts, which was primarily aimed at shielding Israeli universities from accountability for their egregious human rights violations. Read our statement:
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Excited to be in conversation and to learn from student and faculty organizers across campuses and encampments about anticolonial solidarity. Friends in Ireland, hope to see you there!
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A call to academics: On this Palestinian prisoners' day, let us recommit to relentless organizing until our colleagues are free.
On The Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, we are reminded reminded by our students, scholars, and personnel that are detained in Israeli prisons. @Right2Edu
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It was truly inspiring to speak and strategize with the courageous students at the Warwick and UCL encampments this week. They are remaking the world. Support them and read their demands for divestment and academic boycott at Warwickstandswithpalestine and UCLstand4justice.
biggest thanks @wwkstandspal for agreeing to host our talk with the brilliant @mayaywind today and to the amazing student occupier who joined us in conversation and helped us connect Maya’s work with the organising the students are doing around divestment.
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As Israel commits scholasticide in Gaza, it is urgent to heed the call from @PACBI and @BDSmovement for #BDS. Israeli universities are complicit in settler colonialism, apartheid and genocide. Join the movement to remake higher education for liberation. #AcademicBoycottNow.
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Really looking forward to thinking and building with student and faculty organizers at @CambridgeUCU and @cupalsoc.
TOMORROW 30 April 4pm.Towers of Ivory and Steel: Israeli Universities and the Apartheid System.Join us @CamEdFac for a book launch with @mayaywind @UBC moderated by @MahaShuayb @LebaneseStudies.In collaboration with @CambridgeUCU @cupalsoc @bricup.
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Today! Honored to join @NadiaAbuElHaj1 and @NaomiAKlein for a conversation with @VersoBooks and @haymarketbooks about how to decolonize our universities and win academic freedom for all. Please join us!
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Chicago friends! Please join @thaqafatalhind and me for a teach-in on scholasticide and organizing for the academic boycott. Starting in one hour!
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Please read and share this powerful essay by @thaqafatalhind on the colonial Israeli university and how Palestinian anticolonial pedagogy and writing will lead us all to freedom.
Toward an Intellectual History of Genocide in Gaza I wrote some preliminary notes, for Salim al-Nafar and the Palestinian people.
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Honored to join @JehadAbusalim for this conversation today at the @PalestineCenter.
Join us next week for a book talk featuring @mayaywind's Towers of Ivory and Steel. Dr. Wind will discuss the role of Israeli universities in oppressing Palestinian rights. A must-attend for those interested in academia's role in political oppression. 🗓️ March 21 | 🕛 12 PM |
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Vancouver friends, join us at UBC this Wednesday. Honored to join @jkpuar, @NaomiAKlein, Hugh Gusterson and Andre Mazawi to discuss Israeli academia's complicity in scholasticide and organizing to decolonize higher education
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So grateful for the scholarship of the brilliant @DavarianBaldwin, whose pathbreaking work on the university is a model for us all and an inspiration for the book. I'm deeply honored by your support.
This is a GAMECHANGER! Scholar and activist #MayaWind blows the roof off the myth of the liberal Israeli university. She offers a forensic accounting of the varied layers of complicity between Israeli unis and settler colonialism in 🇵🇸. This is a book for the moment!
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In the midst of the student uprising, it was so inspiring to meet the amazing thinkers and organizers at @REAL_Centre, @LebaneseStudies, @CambridgeUCU, @cupalsoc,.and particularly to learn from @MahaShuayb and @Weamhamdan about what justice in higher education should look like.
We are honoured to have @mayaywind with us today for her book launch: .Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom.Available from @VersoBooks to buy or download the ebook for free:.@CambridgeUCU @cupalsoc @LebaneseStudies
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I am immensely grateful and humbled that @NadiaAbuElHaj1 and Robin D. G. Kelley are part of this book, and am truly honored to have the endorsement of brilliant thinkers @NaomiAKlein @DavarianBaldwin, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Jessica Winegar, @sarahschulman3.
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Toronto friends! Really looking forward to seeing you at UofT this afternoon, where I have the privilege to be in conversation with @thaqafatalhind and rosalind hampton
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Grateful for the brilliant leadership of student and faculty organizers at @Galway_ipsc, particularly @Rania_Muhareb, whose analysis of Israeli apartheid is indispensable for our organizing.
Powerful talk by @mayaywind @uniofgalway speaking about her book ‘Towers of Ivory & Steel’ on universities’ complicity in #IsraeliApartheid after the historic #BDS victory @tcddublin. Irish universities must cut ties with Israeli institutions & end complicity in #GazaGenocide 2/2
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As we work to heed the demands of courageous student organizers across encampments, I spoke with @redandinexpert at @poltheoryother about the complicity of Israeli universities in settler colonialism and #GazaGenocide, and the urgency to heed @PACBI's call for #AcademicBoycottNow.
📢NEW EPISODE 📢 @mayaywind on how, contrary to their reputation as bastions of freedom and pluralism, Israeli universities are directly complicit in the project to ethnically cleanse historic Palestine:. @VersoBooks.
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@NadiaAbuElHaj1 @NaomiAKlein @DavarianBaldwin @sarahschulman3 I am deeply indebted to the brilliant Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, @Lana_Tatour @4noura @shereneseikaly @haidareid, whose work has taught me so much over many years.
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Got to spend the day with the amazing students at the Radboud encampment yesterday, where they showed us the path to the university and world we seek to build. Follow them and read their demands at @nijmegenencampment
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A breakdown of Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedm, and the urgency of heeding the call for #BDS by @marcynewman #AcademicBoycottNow .
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I am always grateful for the opportunity to be in conversation with @Lana_Tatour. Friends in Australia, join us to discuss the complicity of Israeli universities in genocide and the work we must do across our own settler universities.
Folks in Australia. Join us for a conversation with @mayaywind on her important book "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom", hosted by the ANU Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies. Via Zoom. Thu 20 Jun, 12–1pm.
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It was great to speak with @JournalSpectre about Israeli university complicity in genocide and the case for the academic boycott.
Brand new interview with @mayaywind on her book new book on Zionist scholasticide, out now on @VersoBooks:.
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DC friends! Please join us tonight at 6pm at Busboys and Poets, 14th & V
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Really looking forward to this conversation with @devikadutt, @SaraMarzagora and @LuqmaanWaqar this evening. London friends, please join us!.
Join us for the next @KingsIntDev Interrogating Development Seminar series this academic year, with @mayaywind on her new book "Towers of Ivory and Steel" on May 2, 5 PM. Sign up here: Organized in collaboration with @kcl_sjp! Hope to see you there!
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Really looking forward to being in conversation with @nevegordon and Tanzil Chowdhury tonight at @clsgcQM. London friends, please join us!.
// BOOK DISCUSSION //.Towers of Ivory, Towers of Steel: Israeli Universities and the Apartheid System @mayaywind. Learn how Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians. Sign up here.
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Brooklyn friends! Please join us tonight for a conversation about Israeli university complicity in genocide and the urgency of the academic boycott.
NYC! Come out today at 6pm EST to hear Maya Wind talk about her groundbreaking new book.
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Friends in Scandinavia! Looking forward to seeing you on campus. The new academic year demands of us a full #AcademicBoycottNow
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This book builds on crucial work over decades of many Palestinian activists and academics, many of whom I cannot name to protect their safety, who have transformed my thinking about the questions that prompted this project.
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University admins take notice!.
BREAKING: We've notified @Columbia that they must reverse the unlawful suspensions of two student groups (@ColumbiaSJP & @JVPColumbia) for engaging in peaceful protest and to reinstate both chapters by March 1. If the university fails to respond by then, we're prepared to sue.
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Amplify the call from @Addameer. International intervention is urgently needed.
Today's raid at Sde Teman camp exposes severe abuses against Gaza detainees. We urgently call for the ICC to investigate and ensure accountability.
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Really looking forward to being back at SCA and to join @nikhil_palsingh in conversation about Israeli university complicity in settler colonialism and how we can remake our own universities for justice.
Join us on 3/13 for a book talk with author and SCA alum, Maya Wind! Please RSVP to attend:
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Please share this organizing guide for Israeli Apartheid Week 2024.
This IAW let’s not just educate about Israeli apartheid! Let’s escalate #BDS campaigning & take meaningful action to support the ongoing Palestinian struggle to dismantle it & end Israel’s #GazaGenocide!.Check out the #IAW24 Organising Guide for more info!.
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Deep gratitude to @_proletaricat_ for her vision and for believing in this project from the beginning and shepherding it over several years. And many thanks to @bravohotelpapa for his expert editorial support in the final stretch.
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ASA members! Please join @Soc4Pal today to discuss the urgency of joining the movement for #AcademicBoycottNow
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A must read from @meznaqato about Israel's destruction of Palestinian libraries, private book collections, and ministerial archives, and how we must refuse to participate in this erasure .
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Call for actions on our campuses this week!.
International Call to Action Against Scholasticide | Feb 18 – 29. @sawporg its international partners .are calling on faculty and students globally to raise awareness & mobilize in an international campaign against Scholasticide in Palestine. Share widely.
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Really forward to being in conversation with @Ellie_AA87 in Newcastle today!.
I'm pleased to be moderating this event on @mayaywind important and timely book published by @VersoBooks The event has been co-hosted by @NCLsocsciences @NewcastleUcu @bricup . See you all there.
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Really looking forward to being in conversation this evening with Brenna Bhandar and @MinotaurLives at @CCMS_SFU!
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@Lana_Tatour I am deeply grateful to be learning from you over many years @Lana_Tatour. Your writing has deeply shaped my thinking and this project 🙏.
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Please share this crucial resource widely.
Join SAWPs International Actions Against Scholasticide from Feb 14-29 2024. #Scholasticide Toolkit .A resource for organizing. Share widely. Upload photos & videos of your events & actions on scholasticide & tag us at #sawporg (on X & Instagram).
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Crucial reading.
"This brutal campaign of torture & violence against Palestinian prisoners has so far led to the deaths of seven prisoners, in addition to an unknown number. of Palestinians killed at an Israeli military base in southern Palestine.". - Basil Farraj
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@bravohotelpapa Your expert editing got me over the finish line Ben. Thank you so much for your support!.
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@MinotaurLives So grateful for all that you do @MinotaurLives and for the critical work of CCMS.
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