Counter Disinformation Centre
Counter Disinformation Centre

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14 تغريدة 2 قراءة Jul 14, 2024
Exclusive thread 🧵 regarding a propagandist Azad Essa, a self- proclaimed/ projected expert on Kashmir
Azad Essa is a South African Journalist based in NewYork working as a senior reporter at Middle East Eye.
He has also worked with Al Jazeera.
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Al Jazeera is Qatar Govt. funded media org. which is lobbying against India.
An Example: Labeling Pakistan-sponsored terrorists as Rebels and Pakistani-origin terrorists as foreign fighters by using old pictures. Al-Jazeera was seen sharing fake news several times regarding Kashmir
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He is the author of “Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance between India and Israel”.
And he has launched a newsletter and social media accounts under the same name “Hostile Homeland” and its first newsletter/social media post is about Kashmir.
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Azad Essa has been married to Hafsa Kanjwal, an assistant professor at Lafayette University in the US. She has been often propped up as an expert on Kashmir issues by the Pakistani front.
She was groomed by a convicted ISI-mole Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai in the early 2000s.
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Kanjwal had also interned at the Deputy Chief of Mission Mohammed Sadiq’s office in the Pakistan Embassy in Washington in 2004.
In 2019, Hafsa Kanjwal set up an organisation ‘Stand WithKashmir’ along with her cousin Sameera Fazili. Sehla Ashai — the founder on documents of Stand With Kashmir, is relative of Aziz Ashai aka Tony Ashai.
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Stand With Kashmir” is another secessionist organisation whose primary task is to fuel anti-India narrative and to disseminate fabricated propaganda, fake news, misinformation and disinformation regarding Kashmir on an international level.
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Azad Essa was regularly seen attending anti-Indian events and webinars organised by secessionist organisations like Stand With Kashmir (SWK) & Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) and sharing their anti-Indian social media posts about Kashmir.
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Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) is a US-based Jamaataffiliated group which is hub for all anti-India activities - from lobbying against India to committing COVID-19 donation fraud to spreading fake news. (We will post separate thread regarding IAMC)
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Azad Essa’s wife Hafsa Kanjwal has authored a book with the title “Colonizing Kashmir”

Both make the case that #Kashmir and #Palestine are similar, as they try to harness international sympathy for the Palestinian cause to their objectives in Kashmir.
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Both of them have written several Articles in Middle East Eye, comparing Kashmir with Palestine / Gaza and India with Israel.
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Azad and his wife Hafsa Kanjwal attended several webinars and events where the disseminate propaganda against India on the name of Kashmir.
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Azad Essa portrays Kashmir as India’s settler colonial Project. He has authored a book on India and Israel with the title“Hostile Homeland, The new alliance between India and Israel”which was launched on 1st March 2023 hosted at the Peoples Forum.
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Azad Essa leaves no opportunity to defame India of India and he portrays J&K government’s every initiative as “oppression”. He was regularly seen sharing/ circulating misleading/fake news/propaganda on his social media handles regarding Kashmir.
Examples:
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