This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for Dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is Towers of Ivory and Steel, how Israeli

universities deny Palestinian freedom by Maya Wind with an afterward by

Robin D. G. Kelly and a forward by Nadia Abuaj.

Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy.

Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources internationally accessible,

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 Palestinians right to education,

stifle critical scholarship, and violently repressed student descent.

Towers of ivory and steel is a powerful expose of Israeli academia's ongoing and active complicity in Israel's settler colonial project.

Out now from Jackman magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is the second episode of Tharwa, The Diggs new series on 20th century Arab politics with historian Abdel Razak Tikriti.

Tharwa is Arabic for revolution. It's a word that contains historical multitudes.

diverse political radicalisms and revolts that have swept

across Arab lands over the past century.

Today's episode is about the rise of anti-colonial politics

across the Arab Middle East, the Ma Shrick

during the mandate period of British and French colonial rule

and Zionist settler colonization of Palestine.

...