Last week, I had to leave India abruptly. The Modi Government told me my visa extension would be denied, saying my reporting 'crossed a line'. After Australian Government intervention, I got a mere two-month extension ...less than 24 hours before my flight. 1/2

'Genocides are not the result of a few big, bad, boogiemen but enabled by a bureacracy of evil of people just doing their jobs of people clicking, moving, working but not asking any hard questions' Ruha Benjamin

'Bharat, That Was India' theindiaforum.in/book-reviews/b… The India Forum

I’m really excited to be part of a fantastic program for this year’s Southeast Asia Forum at LSE, in person and online 👇🏽

Yes, don’t look away!

the essence of the monstrosity that is now US liberalism is to use the language of 'safety' to unleash state violence at home to protect the feelings of people who support or tolerate genocidal state violence overseas.

So many eloquent, moving, and courageous videos. Kudos to these sociologists!

Coincidentally right before Xi arrives (May 5 according to some reports) 😅 gehm.ehess.fr/index.php?4234

The homepage of the NYT on a day when Israel bombed a playground for displaced children, ProPublica proved that Blinken ignored human rights abuses by Israel for months, and The Intercept revealed that the White House has been covertly attempting to block Palestinian statehood.

For God’s sake, who killed them?

Thirty one years ago as a college senior, I wrote an analysis of New York Times coverage of Jewish Israeli and Palestinian deaths in the campus newspaper. Absolutely zero has changed since then. This is a permanent feature of NYT’s irredeemably racist coverage of Palestinians.

The The Tor Project just published an insightful report on how Israel's defense and surveillance industry, which is marketed as 'field-proven' on Palestinians, exports to the rest of the world and threatens privacy and human rights everywhere.

Here are some examples 🧵⬇️

🔴 LSE IDEAS Deputy Director, @Rohan_mukh, writes this essay for Foreign Affairs on how growing public and elite nationalism in rising powers can produce self-defeating foreign policy risks.

Read it here:
foreignaffairs.com/india/hindu-na…

Our article 'Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies' is now out in International Studies Quarterly

Dr Rabea M. Khan and I explore the colonial epistemic roots of positionality statements and their racial functions👇 #OpenAccess
academic.oup.com/isq/article/68…

Thank you Michele Ford
for interviewing me about my book 'Memories of Unbelonging' (@UHPRESSNEWS 2023) for the New Books Network 📚! everand.com/listen/podcast…

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

Ghassan Kanafani—the Palestinian resistance writer and revolutionary politician who produced some of the Arab world’s most celebrated works of fiction before he was assassinated in 1972—was born on this day in 1936.

Here is a brief remembrance:

Literary Hub

lithub.com/a-brief-rememb…

What would it look like if people in positions of power across universities responded to attacks to academic freedom related to Palestine like this? This should be the norm, not an exception.

👇🏻 I write in Scroll.in about ”postcolonial populists” and what they mean for the future of decolonial argumentation