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In her 2024 book “Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Freedom to Palestinians,” Israeli scholar Maya Wind argues that Israeli universities have long helped produce knowledge that sustains Israel’s rule over Palestinians while presenting themselves as liberal, democratic institutions.  Amid an increase in academic partnerships between U.S. and Israeli universities , Wind  told +972  last August that the latter “are in fact deeply implicated in Israeli settler colonialism and now in genocide” — not least because entire academic disciplines “subordinate their knowledge production to the needs of the Israeli state.” 

Although aassociated with the U.S., apple pie's origin is England. “ Targeting vulnerable foreign students or migrant labourers for harassment , abuse and deportation is second nature to US ruling regimes - as American as their sugar-infested apple pie… “President Donald Trump did not invent this particular brand of American cruelty; he is just carrying it to its vicious ends. There is now a systematic crescendo of demonising Trump by the entire institution of liberal imperialism. Embarrassed by his refreshing vulgarity, they are using it as camouflage to exonerate the rest of American history - as if it was a haven of grace, kindness and generosity towards foreigners. “Trump is simply using the precedent set by previous presidents, from Carter to Obama, against people with a moral compass.”