Mohan Dutta: Culture-Centered Approach

As evidenced globally, starting from the Trump ecosystem in the US, the far-right infrastructure threatening academic freedom is mainstreamed into political and media systems. This mainstreaming process lies at the core of the threat that democracies are witnessing globally.  The onslaught on the academe and on Universities we are witnessing in the US has mobilized a global phenomenon of attack on Universities.  Here in Aotearoa, the interplays of white supremacy and Zionism, mainstreamed into the discursive spaces of power, forms the core of the persistent threat to academic freedom. This evening, in response to a post I made about the intersections of white supremacy and Zionism, the underlying white supremacist infrastructure of contemporary Zionism, being carried out in the form of a genocide, an X account @hamishpricenz tweeted, "It is incredible that a tenured university professor is able to post such hateful venom. Turns out he's not an international relations professor...