Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Institutions Deny Palestinian Freedom By Dr Maya Wind

Dr Wind’s book shows how in Israeli universities, academic disciplines, degree programmes, 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. The book is a powerful expose of Israeli academia’s ongoing and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project. 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. 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. a powerful expose of Israeli academia’s ongoing and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project.