A thread on Western press coverage of US campus protest vs JNU. In both countries students supported terrorists, Hamas and Afzal Guru.
1st up, The Conversation
US: Campus protest escalate, surrounding Israel-Gaza war
India: University freedoms in India under threat
1st up, The Conversation
US: Campus protest escalate, surrounding Israel-Gaza war
India: University freedoms in India under threat
2nd, Time
US: Pro-Palestinian Columbia Student Protests Continue despite arrests, suspensions
India: Arrest of a Student leader......reignites India's Intolerance Debate
US: Pro-Palestinian Columbia Student Protests Continue despite arrests, suspensions
India: Arrest of a Student leader......reignites India's Intolerance Debate
3rd, The Guardian
US: Police allegedly use rubber bullets and teargas
India: Another Indian student arrested on charges of sedition...raising concerns over country's freedom of speech laws
US: Police allegedly use rubber bullets and teargas
India: Another Indian student arrested on charges of sedition...raising concerns over country's freedom of speech laws
4th, The Economist
US: Efforts to tackle students protest in America have backfired badly
India: The Last refuge govt of Narendra Modi seeks to define Indian patriotism, and to own it.
US: Efforts to tackle students protest in America have backfired badly
India: The Last refuge govt of Narendra Modi seeks to define Indian patriotism, and to own it.
5th, Washington Post
US: Where campus protest have led to arrests across the US
India: Indian students called it free speech.
The government called it sedition.
US: Where campus protest have led to arrests across the US
India: Indian students called it free speech.
The government called it sedition.
6th, The Independent
US: As some universities negotiate with pro-Palestinian protestors, others quickly call the police
India: Kanhaiya Kumar arrest: Britain's top universities join global academic community to condemn 'illegal police action' in India
US: As some universities negotiate with pro-Palestinian protestors, others quickly call the police
India: Kanhaiya Kumar arrest: Britain's top universities join global academic community to condemn 'illegal police action' in India
7th, CNN
US: Police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters at Emerson College
India: Student leader urges freedom of speech after arrest, release in India
US: Police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters at Emerson College
India: Student leader urges freedom of speech after arrest, release in India
8th, The New York Times
US: Campus Protests Over Gaza Intensify Amid
Pushback by Universities and Police
India: Sedition Arrests in India Inflame Old Free-Speech Tensions
US: Campus Protests Over Gaza Intensify Amid
Pushback by Universities and Police
India: Sedition Arrests in India Inflame Old Free-Speech Tensions
9th, Australia's ABC News
US: Pro-Palestine protests sweep across US colleges, with dozens of students arrested at Yale, NYU and Columbia
India: India's apocalyptic politics: The violence at Jawaharlal Nehru
University reflects a need always to find new enemies
US: Pro-Palestine protests sweep across US colleges, with dozens of students arrested at Yale, NYU and Columbia
India: India's apocalyptic politics: The violence at Jawaharlal Nehru
University reflects a need always to find new enemies
10th, Le Monde France
US: US campus protests for Gaza turn into electoral trap for Biden
India: In India, Modi's worrying nationalism
US: US campus protests for Gaza turn into electoral trap for Biden
India: In India, Modi's worrying nationalism
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