Why a Professor from Belgium Was Branded ‘Anti-India’ After Delhi Lecture on 18th-Century Dutch Text
Jakob de Roover | 07 September 2024 | Scroll.in
Imagine: you are invited to a foreign university to teach about Nazi representations of the Jews. In a workshop, you analyse a pamphlet from 1933. You show that, while we are appalled at its contents today, similar stereotypes about Jews live on, so we must examine their hold on some people’s minds.
The next day a group of local professors accuse you of antisemitism. Acting as though the excerpts you quoted are your own words, they launch a campaign to brand you as “anti-Jewish”. You are banned from lecturing, investigated for antisemitism and denounced as an “anti-Jew”…