The student intifada was, for many of us, the only ray of hope in a dark year—the one protest whose scale, form, location, and ferocity met the moment

Then it was crushed. I spent months talking to dozens of students about what happened—and where to next🧵jewishcurrents.org/after-the-enca… x.com/JewishCurrents… The encampments had create a type of five-alarm fire that other campus organizers had only dreamed of. But once they had this crisis, campers had to figure out what to do with it, and opinions differed—from negotiation on the one pole to pure militancy on the other

After months of reporting and dozens of interviews with Hindu nationalist groups and their critics, my @jewishcurrents piece on Hinduphobia is out today

I found a worrying trend. The Hindu right is developing a very effective new strategy to shield Hindutva from criticism🧵1/

https://twitter.com/JewishCurrents/status/1674075033017131008

At a 2022 New Jersey parade celebrating India’s independence, Hindu nationalist groups added a bulldozer to the lineup of floats. To South Asian minorities who were watching bulldozers demolishing Muslim homes in India, the symbolism was clear. Hindutva had come abroad 2/