Azad Essa
Journalist at Middle East Eye
Journalist @MiddleEastEye; Author of Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel (Pluto Press); My newsletter: https://t.co/532Fyq3FUZ
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1 week ago |
middleeasteye.net | Azad Essa
In the early hours of Wednesday, the Indian army launched a series of air raids on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The airstrikes hit mosques and madrassas as well as residential complexes, leaving 31 civilians dead, including several children, the Pakistani government said.
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2 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Azad Essa
On 17 March, Badar Khan Suri, the Indian post-doctoral scholar at Georgetown University, was picked up by masked agents from the Department of Homeland Security outside his home in Virginia.
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3 weeks ago |
azadessa.substack.com | Azad Essa
On 22 April, several gunmen opened fire on a group of visitors in the scenic Pahalgam area of Indian-occupied Kashmir. At least 25 people, the majority of whom were Indian tourists, were killed. One Kashmiri and one Nepali were also killed. Several others were also injured. According to the Indian media, the Resistance Front (TRF), a militant group banned by New Delhi, claimed responsibility for the attacks. No one has been able to independently verify this.
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4 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Azad Essa
In the early hours of 17 April 2024, hundreds of students quietly set up an encampment in the main quad of Columbia University in Morningside, New York City. Inspired by the actions of the anti-Vietnam war protests of the late 1960s, the students dubbed the lined tents on the lawns of the campus "The Liberated Zone". Student demands were clear.
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1 month ago |
middleeasteye.net | Azad Essa
It was early 2025, and Ibtihal Aboussad couldn't believe what she had just read. The company at which she had spent the past three years working as a software engineer in the AI department was actively providing the Israeli military with the AI infrastructure to carry out what several leading human rights groups and experts have described as a "genocide" in Gaza.
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RT @MiddleEastEye: "India has watched in awe as Israel tore apart all conventions to impose itself as the rightful owner of Palestine" ✍️…
For so many Indians, the events at Pahalgam is when history begins. Never mind 500,000 troops occupying Kashmiris. Never mind mass graves, enforced disappearances, torture camps & extra judicial killings. Tourists expect to be safe where residents don’t have any human rights.
@poonamkachanddd Again, did we start this war? Don’t you think it started the day 26 tourists were killed? How were our attacks not planned better? We didn’t kill civilians, we destroyed terror hubs, there are videos of burials being led by terrorists, we have been able to deflect most Pakistani
Whatever you may think about the Pakistan state (& there is a lot), that India, which crows about its status as the ‘worlds biggest democracy’, is currently on a mass campaign of censorship & state-driven disinfo, while Pakistan reopened Twitter, is one for the history books.