Last week, Hindu American Foundation issued an email action alert, calling on the non-resident Indians to write letters to India’s foreign ministry to persuade the cosponsoring universities to reconsider their association with the #DismantlingGlobalHindutva conference. 1/n 
HAF along with Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA), the Coalition of Hindus in North America (CoHNA) claim to have collectively sent more than 1.3 million emails to dozens of universities to withdraw their support for the conference. But they failed miserably. 2/n
After HAF and CoHNA’s aggressive campaigning against the conference and its speakers, many dangerous Hindu rightwing groups including Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, whose members are accused of assassinating Gauri Lankesh joined the fray to intimidate the organisers. 3/n
The conference organisers, speakers and their family members were trolled and harassed online. Some were given death threats.
These groups created such an intimidatory environment, that many India based speakers restricted their movement outside fearing physical assault. 4/n
These groups created such an intimidatory environment, that many India based speakers restricted their movement outside fearing physical assault. 4/n
One speaker told me that after Hindu Janajagruti Samiti joined American Hindu right-wing groups seeking cancellation of the conference, she was scared to step out of her house fearing Gauri Lankesh style assassination. 5/n
After my report on conference for @AJEnglish, HAF issued a statement condemning extreme vitriol & hate against speakers & organsiers. But this is their modus operandi.I have faced it personally.They first enable hate & then they jump in to condemn it, just to save their face. 6/n
Some samples 7/n
https://twitter.com/raqib_naik/status/1417838709832044544
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