Anti-Zionism emerges in two primary ways within contemporary North American culture. Most often, anti-Zionism is understood as being synonymous with anti-Semitism, if not representing something even more noxious and dangerous. Less often, though with growing frequency, anti-Zionism is considered a specifically Jewish tradition, legitimated as a kind of critique internal to the Jewish community. In both cases, however, whether implicitly or explicitly, anti-Zionism’s relationship to a larger, even universal constellation of political ideas and social movements is elided. This workshop advances a series of collective conversations about the history, theory, and politics of anti-Zionism. Through these successive gatherings, our aim has been to carve out and defend space for new and critical ways of thinking, talking about, and understanding the multiple and evolving forms of anti-Zionism.

Organized by Esmat Elhalaby (University of Toronto) and Max Weiss (Princeton University) and hosted by the Center for Palestine Studies.

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9:30 AM
Introduction
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Columbia University

10:00-11:30 AM
Panel 1: Concepts
Sulieman Hodali, Stanford University
Sonali Thakkar, New York University
[Chair] Esmat Elhalaby, University of Toronto

11:45-1:30 PM
Panel 2: Conditions
Maya Wind, University California, Riverside
Heike Schotten, The University of Massachusetts Boston
[Chair] Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Princeton University

1:30-2:45 PM
Lunch

2:45-4:00
Panel 3: Contestations 
Emmaia Gelman, Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
Samiha Khalil, University of Californiea, Berkeley  
[Chair] Max Weiss, Princeton University

4:00-5:30
Panel 4: Counterhistories 
Jehad Abusalim, New York University
Ahmad Shokr, Swarthmore College
[Chair] Manan Ahmed, Columbia University