Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism

Our founder, Andrew Pessin, will be speaking this weekend at the first World Symposium on Antizionism. May 17 in Toronto, Canada. To register: tafsik.org/wsaa.

@adam_louis52328 Adam Louis-Klein speech at the protest against @nytimes and @NickKristof yesterday: We are here today not to accommodate, not to give permission, not to bow our heads. We are here to say no. We will not be erased from this society. We will not countenance a racist hate movement. We are done playing their games. We are done with their empty abstractions and endless debates. We have heard them. We have seen them. Desecrating our neighborhoods. Vandalizing our synagogues. Murdering our people. We have heard their endless vitriol and hatred. Antizionism is not a justice movement. Since it flooded the West after October 7, it has placed a veil of darkness and untruth over this society. We must name the problem. We must use our voice. I’m going to read you a list of names: Paul Kessler. Sarah Milgrim. Yaron Lischinsky. Karen Diamond. The Michigan car-ramming attack. The Manchester Yom Kippur attack. The Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre. The Golders Green stabbing. Who murdered them? Antizionists. Who justified it? Antizionists. Who calls every day for our genocide? Antizionists. Who mocks and erases our history and calls it scholarship? Antizionists. Who tries to deny us the right to speak back? Antizionists. Who purges us from society as if it were righteous? Antizionists. Who are we here to condemn and say no to? Antizionists.. What happened on October 7 was a genocide, and today they accuse Israel of genocide. And now these so-called “credible” institutions spread lurid tales of “dog rape,” animalizing us and dehumanizing us. Have they no shame? Shame on them. Shame on Nicholas Kristof. Shame on The New York Times. Shame on the United Nations. Shame on our universities. I am here to tell you: Our struggle is a just struggle. This is the real social justice movement. This is the real progressive movement. This is the movement that fights for life, for truth, and for goodness for all people—Israeli, Jewish, and Palestinian alike. It is the movement that has been hidden this entire time, obscured behind their mirror of inversion and propaganda. We will not stop demanding that the world reckon with this ideology, with this hate movement. We are an unbreakable people. And when we know who we are, nothing can stop the light—the light that shines and dispels the darkness, the light that comes forth from Zion. The denial ends today. @InstituteCSA

Elder does it again: this whole series is brilliant. @elderofziyon is like a one-man Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism. The Question Has a New Name open.substack.com/pub/elderofziy…

ICSA suggests "The Inverted World" Substack by Kile Jones. @kilebjones

The latest substack of ICSA is out, and it is CHOCK FULL of anti-antizionist goodness... Upcoming, Updates, News, and Resources galore The first major gathering of the anti-AZ crowd, some alarming news as AZ is used as a weapon against Canadian Jews, some great new research .... Check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/icsa/p/upc… @elderofziyon @richard_landes @LekhtNaya @adam_louis52328 @maazaction @InstituteCSA @yudapearl

ICSA Suggests: Virtuous Antisemitism: What the Writings of Jean Améry Can Teach Us About Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism & the Left Today Date: Sunday, May 31, 2026 Time: 2:00–4:00 PM Location: Temple Sinai (Oakland, CA) More details and registration: oaklandsinai.org/event/virtuous…

The latest substack of ICSA is out, and it is CHOCK FULL of anti-antizionist goodness... Upcoming, Updates, News, and Resources galore The first major gathering of the anti-AZ crowd, some alarming news as AZ is used as a weapon against Canadian Jews, some great new research .... Check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/icsa/p/upc… @elderofziyon @richard_landes @LekhtNaya @adam_louis52328 @maazaction @AndrewPessin

Very important piece, with shout out to the Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism @InstituteCSA ejewishphilanthropy.com/whoever-shapes…

Next trainings from the @maazaction Register here: cal.com/maaztrainaus @AndrewPessin @adam_louis52328

TONIGHT! The final installment in our fantastic six-part series on the history of antizionism: Thurs May 7, 7-8 PM ET Adam Louis-Klein "Tying it All Together: Antizionism, A Holistic Ideology" Register here: chaimitzvah.org/events/tying-i… If you can't make it live, preregistering will get you a link to the recording afterwards ... Spread the Word! @EliAfriatISR @AKALazarus @Mazelit_ @yudapearl @elderofziyon @richard_landes @MikeNew19512115 @adam_louis52328 @adamlevick @bandlersbanter @SAFECUNY @_SAFECAMPUS @LenGrunstein @EylonALevy @EinatWilf @bariweiss @HenMazzig @Aizenberg55 @thestustustudio @AndrewPessin @LekhtNaya @HusseinAboubak @DavidLBernstein @maazaction @gabedrawsX

Discover our work and join us in the fight against antizionism.

By Allen Zeesman: How Antisemitism Adapts to the Moral Language of Each Age open.substack.com/pub/icsa/p/by-…

By Russell Shalev: "A Bespoke Slur: Why 'Ethnocracy' is a Pseudo-Academic Weapon Against Israel" open.substack.com/pub/icsa/p/by-…

The latest substack is out from the Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism ... Call for papers for the foundational encyclopedia, the next installment of the webinar series, news and updates, and fresh scholarship and more ..... open.substack.com/pub/icsa/p/upc… @elderofziyon @richard_landes @yudapearl @MikeNew19512115 @adam_louis52328 @adamlevick @bandlersbanter @SAFECUNY @_SAFECAMPUS @LenGrunstein @HenMazzig @Aizenberg55 @thestustustudio @EVKontorovich @slowhoneybee

The latest substack is out from the Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism ... Call for papers for the foundational encyclopedia, the next installment of the webinar series, news and updates, and fresh scholarship and more ..... open.substack.com/pub/icsa/p/upc… @elderofziyon @richard_landes @yudapearl @MikeNew19512115 @adam_louis52328 @adamlevick @bandlersbanter @SAFECUNY @_SAFECAMPUS @LenGrunstein @HenMazzig @Aizenberg55 @thestustustudio @EVKontorovich @slowhoneybee

Essential talk next week -- the final one in the series, "The History of Antizionism," produced by the Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism .... a must-watch! Thurs May 7, 7-8 pm ET Adam Louis-Klein "Tying It All Together: Antizionism, A Holistic Ideology" Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… If you can't see it live, preregistering gets you a link to the recording afterward ... Please spread the word! @elderofziyon @richard_landes @LekhtNaya @HusseinAboubak @DavidLBernstein @maazaction @adam_louis52328 @EliAfriatISR @AKALazarus @yudapearl @MikeReport1 @MikeNew19512115 @LenGrunstein

indeed, very well done @kdeutschjourno !

Monday campus antizionism-antisemitism roundup [To stay abreast, follow @AndrewPessin on X and andrewpessin.substack.com] U of Oregon: 📷 x.com/AMCHAInitiativ… Occidental College: anti-Israel encampment pops up there too … by day two it’s expanding, starting to run full anti-Israel programming x.com/thestustustudi… x.com/thestustustudi… U of South Florida: dean is out after event in which Jewish students were blocked from entering an event with a governor candidate facebook.com/groups/6567186… San Diego State University: student govt passes anti-Israel resolution: that defines the Israel-Hamas war as genocide, calls on SDSU to divest from Israel and demands the university affirm support for Palestinian and Muslim students. thedailyaztec.com/127759/news/a-… Texas K-12: a Jewish family is suing the prestigious Alcuin School for $10 million, asserting repeated failures to address antisemitism. Allegedly staff removed posters of Israeli hostages to avoid upsetting students and a map erased Israel and replaced it with "Palestine" during a school event. x.com/StopAntisemite… Canada, Toronto Metropolitan: Jewish student sues TMU for $1.3M over alleged ‘poisoned’ learning environment ‘Since October 7, 2023, there have been extensive, repeated and ongoing violations of the TMU Conduct Policies impacting Liat and other Jewish TMU community members,’ the lawsuit alleges nationalpost.com/news/schools-n… Belgium, U of Ghent: masked keffiyehs occupying a building issuing anti-Israel demands x.com/TheJewishAlly/… IF YOU APPRECIATE THESE LISTINGS (THAT TAKE HOURS TO COMPILE EACH WEEK) I WOULDN’T OBJECT IF YOU FELT LIKE BUYING ME A COFFEE, TO KEEP THE WORK GOING: coff.ee/andrewpessin ===== Fri Apr 24 Stanford: An unidentified Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier tackled a Stanford student during a tabling event in White Plaza on Wednesday afternoon. Melanie Shiraz, who was crowned Miss Israel in 2025, and the soldier stood in White Plaza from 10 a.m. to around 4 p.m. on Wednesday with a cardboard sign that read “I’m Miss Israel. I’m an IDF Soldier. Ask us anything.” According to eyewitness accounts, Margil Sanchez Carmona ’28 took the cardboard sign from the table and began to bike away from White Plaza. The soldier then tackled Sanchez Carmona to retrieve the sign. facebook.com/groups/6567186… Columbia: An amended complaint has been filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the union representing graduate student workers at Columbia University charging they are “bargaining in bad faith,” for among other issues, demanding the university adopt BDS policies targeting Israel. Both the initial complaint and the amendment were filed by the National Right to Work Foundation against officials of the Student Workers of Columbia (SWC), a union affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW), on behalf of the Graduate Researchers Against Discrimination and Suppression (GRADS), a group of graduate students opposing the union’s action. The original complaint was filed in September over “outrageous” bargaining items from union officials. These included not only demanding implementation of Boycott Divestment Sanctions policy for the entire university, but also that the university terminate its dual-degree undergraduate program with Tel Aviv University. Undergraduate programming generally falls outside the union’s purview. jewishlink.news/complaint-file… Smith College President and Board of Trustees agree to meet with school’s SJP after Board committee declines to advance their BDS proposal … while SJP is on day 8 of an illegal encampment facebook.com/groups/6567186… x.com/IsraelWarRoom/… New York City K-12: Dept of Ed Title VI investigation launched into the NYC Department of Education for alleged discrimination against Jewish students. An NYC group of teachers, called "NYC Educators for Palestine," is reportedly teaching children as young as five to support Hamas, and that Zionists are "genocidal white supremacists." x.com/IsraelWarRoom/… New York City K-12: The United Federation of Teachers’ leadership seems to have decided that advocating against the Jewish state — and promoting Hamas talking points — is now part of its official role. That would come as news to the many Jewish educators it is actually supposed to represent. The UFT’s job as a trade union is to advocate for New York City public school educators and the students they serve. On Wednesday night, it chose to push anti-Israel conspiracies and demonization instead. At their monthly meeting, UFT delegates advanced a resolution targeting U.S. military support for Israel to next month’s delegate assembly agenda. Fifty-eight percent of delegates voted in favor: 509–370 among those voting by phone, 175–122 in person, for a combined vote of 684–492. The antizionist resolution, riddled with inaccuracies and omissions, is now formally on the union’s agenda for its May meeting, where delegates will vote on whether to formally adopt it as UFT policy. kevindeutsch.substack.com/p/uft-pushes-e… San Francisco K-12: An East Bay Jewish teenager sued her principal, two former teachers and her school district this week, alleging “pervasive and unrelenting” antisemitic harassment and discrimination over two years leading to panic attacks and a precipitous drop in her grade point average. High school senior Eden Horwitz, along with her mother, Montana Horwitz, filed the lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesday alleging that San Leandro Unified School District administrators failed to protect her from taunts, antisemitic rallies and anti-Jewish course content, among other allegations during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years. archive.ph/s0mvN