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The brothers welcome Maya Wind, 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. They discuss the role played by Israeli universities in the establishment and maintenance of the Zionist project in Palestine, the nexus between universities and political repression and military violence, the appalling treatment of Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, and the urgent need for an academic boycott of the Israeli university system.
Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (2024) 
https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/3009-towers-of-ivory-and-steel
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Date of recording: June 5, 2024.
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The brothers take on some of the most popular and entirely mendacious Zionist talking points and debunk them.
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Links mentioned in the episode
Relevant links  
A.L. Tibawi, Anglo-Arab Relations and the Question of Palestine, 1914-21 (1971)
George Antonius, The Arab Awakening (1938)
Edward Said, The Question of Palestine (1992)
Edward Said, “The Morning After” (1993)
Avi Shlaim, Three Worlds (2024) 
Abdel Razzaq Takriti on Palestinian revolution 
Rashid Khalidi, Hundred Years War on Palestine (2020)
Shira Robinson, Citizen Strangers (2013) 
Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2007)
Benny Morris, "Survival of the Fittest: An Interview with Benny Morris" (2004) 
Ella Shohat, On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements (2017) 
Vladimir Jabotinsky, “The Iron Wall”  (1923)
Amnesty International, "Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity" (2022)
B’Tselem, "A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid" (2021)
Original suppressed ESCWA report on apartheid. Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid (2017)
Orit Bashkin, Impossible Exodus (2017)
Saree Makdisi, Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (2024)
Ussama Makdisi, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (2021)
UN OCHA Map of West Bank and other OPT.

Date of recording: May 28, 2024.
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The brothers welcome the political analyst Mouin Rabbani (@MouinRabbani) to the show to discuss the broader implications of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, the loss of Israeli military credibility, the implications of the recent ICJ and ICC decisions for Israel’s growing global isolation, and the growing sense that we may be at an inflection point in the Zionist conflict with the Palestinian people as Israel becomes more of a liability than an asset, politically, militarily and electorally.
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Date of recording: May 21, 2024.
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The brothers welcome Professor Stephen Walt to the show to discuss US foreign policy in the Middle East, the role of the Israel lobby in influencing US decision-making, and how all these dynamics may develop in the wake of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.
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Date of recording: May 14, 2024.
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The brothers welcome Elham Fakhro to the show to discuss the shifting patterns of relations between the states of the Arab Gulf and the established metropoles of the Arab world, the interplay of education and political transformation, the trend towards normalization with the Zionist state and recent developments in attitudes towards and relationships with Iran.
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Date of recording: Apr 23, 2024.
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The brothers welcome historian and journalist Vijay Prashad (@vijayprashad) to the show to discuss the emergence of Palestine as the keystone struggle of the Global South, the importance of the PLO, the question of sovereign national interests vs. solidarity with Palestinian liberation, and the radical student movements rising up across the West.
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Date of recording: April 30, 2024.
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