“Today Israel, tomorrow India: Why American protesters’ path to ‘salvation’ goes from Gaza to Kashmir”, First Post, May 5, 2024:

“Rutgers University in the United States has agreed to the demands of protesters on the campus to club Kashmiris with Palestinians in the list of “occupied people”. Are we surprised? No, if we have not blinded ourselves to the campus realities of the West. Innate anti-Israel and anti-Jew sentiments are as strong in the Western colleges and universities as anti-India and anti-Hindu feelings.

First, let’s look into the anti-Israeli/Jewish sentiments in the West. If one thinks anti-Israelism on Western campuses is a post-Gaza war phenomenon, then rest assured you have already been misled and misinformed. For, the ongoing Israel-Hamas war has only opened the lid on the thriving anti-Israeli/Jewish ecosystem on these campuses.

But here again, there’s a difference between America and Europe. Though we are today witnessing the worst of protests on US campuses, the situation in the rest of America is largely unaffected—just the same way the azaadi and tukde tukde voices in some of the top Indian institutions had no echo outside the campuses a few years ago……”

Read the full article at Firstpost.com