Are Israeli universities bystanders or complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights? This book builds on a myriad of empirical cases, policy documents, military memos, media sources, books and theses approved by Israeli universities, and research by critical Palestinian and Israeli scholars, to answer this question. The result is a fast-paced, powerful portrait of the embeddedness of Israeli academia within the Zionist political and military agenda. The first part of the book illustrates how a variety of academic disciplines — including archeology, Middle East studies, law and criminology — justify Israel’s occupation and military operations and how academic programs serve the state’s goals. It discusses how research laboratories contribute to surveillance, expropriation of Palestinian lands and misrepresentation and theft of cultural heritage, illustrates how the strategic positioning of campus infrastructure aids colonization, and depicts the active participation of Israeli universities in the state propaganda. The second part of the book presents evidence of Israeli universities’ violations of Palestinian rights to education, showcasing how Israeli academia suppresses critical scholarship and violently represses Palestinian students’ dissent. By unveiling the multitude of ways in which Israeli academia sustains the Israeli state’s ‘settler-colonial’ project, the book contends that Israeli universities, far from neutral, are ‘designed as vehicles of Jewish settlement expansion and Palestinian dispossession’. Through a detailed exposé of Israeli academia’s role in Palestinian oppression, Wind challenges the assumption of Israeli universities as bastions of freedom and neutrality and urges scholars to critically question their impartiality. The book is both a relentless investigative work on Israeli academic institutions and a timely reminder of scholarly responsibility rooted in universal human rights.