“When ‘from river to the sea’ is wrong, but ‘Bharat tere tukde honge’ is right: Of ‘free speech’, duplicity and hypocrisy”, First Post, December 13, 2023:
“The pushback in the United States against rabid antisemitism in universities that calls for the genocide of Jewish people and obliteration of the state of Israel is nothing short of spectacular.
Heads are rolling, progressives are getting bashed, the toxic DEI program in universities is coming under increasing focus and donors are demanding accountability, pulling millions of dollars in planned funding from universities for failing to ensure the safety of Jewish students and punish those who indulge in pro-Hamas activism.
The shocking conduct of the three Ivy League college presidents during their recent testimony before a US House of Representatives committee on antisemitism, where the trio was grilled for over five hours for failing to stop antisemitic acts on their polarized campuses, has become a lightning rod for an unprecedented blowback against the shape-shifting ideology — known variously as wokeism, progressivism, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, queer theory or even identity-Marxism — that has captured all the elite and critical institutions in the US…..”
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