Commentary, Feminism, Academic, Racism, Saswat Saswat Pattanayak Commentary, Feminism, Academic, Racism, Saswat Saswat Pattanayak

Weaponization of Antisemitism vs. the Legacies of Black Scholarship

Universities in the US of America used to be institutions for not just free speech, but revolutionary political speech. From the student movement that ended Vietnam War to the radical uprising (“Intifada” to use the translated term that is frightening militarist warmongers who are “grilling” university presidents today while their funded military is grilling children in Gaza) of civil rights movement across the country, to Black Panthers and freeing political prisoners movements to anti-nuclear war peacenik movements - American students have always been at the front of the struggle calling for end to militarist occupation and interventions into any and every country that the US imperialism has tried to harm. And the situation with Palestine will be no different.

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