Tag: censorship

SNDT University cancels lecture by feminist historian Uma Chakravarti

NB: India’s current ruling establishment does not even have the courage to say, “we will not let you speak becuase we do not like your ideas.” They resort instead to phrasemongering about ‘technical reasons’. Indian democracy is being strangled before our eyes. DS The Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University in Mumbai has cancelled its 16th Neera… Read More SNDT University cancels lecture by feminist historian Uma Chakravarti

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Francesca Albanese Talks Israel, Epstein and the ‘Orgy of Power’

The UN Special Rapporteur joins Mehdi and our Zeteo town hall audience to call out global powers and promote BDS, as a Zionist disinformation campaign tries to cancel her and get her fired Mehdi Hasan and Team Zeteo UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, joins Mehdi in a town hall with Zeteo’s paid subscribers after a disinformation campaign… Read More Francesca Albanese Talks Israel, Epstein and the ‘Orgy of Power’

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Naravane Exposé Reveals Delhi Runs on Narrative

Without alignment between military capability, strategic doctrine and civilian decision-making, India’s deterrence posture will remain asymmetric and operationally hollow. What remains really indispensable is political honesty. The suppression of Naravane’s memoir itself has become emblematic of this failure. A government unwilling to level with parliament or the public about how close India came to escalation… Read More Naravane Exposé Reveals Delhi Runs on Narrative

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Olga Cherevko Showed the World What’s Happening in Gaza. Israel Won’t Let Her Return

Olga Cherevko grew up on military bases in Siberia, belonged to a Christian cult in the U.S. and was sent by the UN to some of the toughest places in the world. None of that prepared her for what she saw in Gaza Nir Hasson A crushed ambulance outside a Gaza hospital, photographed by Cherevko.… Read More Olga Cherevko Showed the World What’s Happening in Gaza. Israel Won’t Let Her Return

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Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’

The president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White House is in his sights By Charlotte Higgins On 30 May last year, Kim Sajet was working in her office in the grandly porticoed National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. The gallery… Read More Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’

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‘Indianisation’ of Syllabi is Hollowing Out Knowledge in Our Universities

For now, “anti-national” or “anti-Indian” books are merely being removed from syllabi. Slowly, they will disappear from libraries. Soon, they will cease to be mentioned at all. A long winter has begun to descend on the land of knowledge. Apoorvanand Knowledge – its very disciplines – are today locked in a struggle for survival on… Read More ‘Indianisation’ of Syllabi is Hollowing Out Knowledge in Our Universities

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They Questioned India–Israel Ties. Now the trolls want to destroy their lives

NB: In India today, a section of opinion considers any criticism of Israel to be equivalent to ‘anti-nationalism’. This is similar to what has taken place in the USA; where even academic rersearch on Palestinan history is censored. It’s ridiculous that criticism of another country should be seen as betrayal of my country. Why? What… Read More They Questioned India–Israel Ties. Now the trolls want to destroy their lives

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The War on Minds: Inside the Iranian Regime’s Coordinated Arrests of Left Scholars

By Siyavash Shahabi on November 4, 2025 In the past 24 hours, security forces carried out coordinated raids on the homes of several left-wing researchers and translators in Tehran, arresting Parviz Sedaghat, Mahsa Asadollahnejad, and Shirin Karimi. They confiscated the belongings of Mohammad Maljoo and summoned him for questioning; the home of Heiman Rahimi was also searched, and… Read More The War on Minds: Inside the Iranian Regime’s Coordinated Arrests of Left Scholars

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The Disaster Correspondent: Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans

NB: The phrase ‘the fundamental racism of their editorial line’, sums up what it feels to be the perennial object of dehumanisation by the Western establishments and a sizeable part of their populations. Lina Mounzer has said something very important here, and it has lessons not only for the West and Israel, but also for… Read More The Disaster Correspondent: Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans

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