Barrelling into Passover ..
Feel the Wave ...
As we head into Passover, a few items …
(1) The ICSA roster now boasts 165 scholars and over 3400 followers-subscribers on substack—feel the wave! Let’s keep going. If you know of potentially interested scholars or subscribers, please refer them this way.
(2) ICSA acknowledges its gratitude to the generosity of the Lauren and Philip Siegel Foundation, as its founding supporter, without which we could not have come this far.
(3) But let’s keep going! For ICSA to endure beyond its first year and continue to grow and produce critical scholarship it will need more support. If you know of any mission-aligned philanthropists who want to get in on the ground floor of what just might be an academy-and-western-world-saving endeavor, please refer them to me.
(4) ICSA is happy to report that a couple of graduate students have recently joined. The goal of reclaiming the academy will require refilling the graduate school pipeline with mission-aligned people (who have largely been driven from it), so we are eager to get graduate students on board and support them. If you know of any, please refer them to me. (Ditto, ultimately, for undergraduates who might be scholars-in-training who might become graduate students …)
(5) Keep those proposals coming, most recently for the forthcoming encyclopedia ICSA is producing to lay out the foundations for the critical study of antizionism. Nearly three dozen proposals have come in, we need loads more.
The main call is here: https://icsa.substack.com/p/the-foundational-book-project-launches
Prof. Cary Nelson is overseeing the projected Vol. 3, his call is here: https://icsa.substack.com/p/from-cary-nelson-a-call-for-contributors.
Remember that compensation is available for accepted chapters!
(6) And finally a couple of pieces to share:
(i) Undergraduate Jacob Vetstein writes about what happens when a “Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies” becomes institutionally antizionist:
(ii) Zain De Ville offers “A Psychoanalytic Reading of Queers for Palestine,” exploring how a group can come to express “Solidarity With the Executioner”:
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That’s it for now. Pesach sameach, and remember:
We need teams of scholars producing reams of scholarship about antizionism.
We need ICSA.