The Isreli-Palestinian conflict is now worldwide known and it also affect economies and cultural values of rest of countries. Politicians, economists, film celebrities and other well-known people commented on this situation of war “in favor of and against.” And there comments are made a form of negative PR.
Recently, a same case came into light when a former Delhi university professor Achin vanaik, whose recent lecture on at O.P. Jindal University got stuck in controversy.
University Remarks on Professor’s hate speech
University had asked to “express regret” over his negative remarks during a lecture titled “The history and politics of the Palestinian Present” held on November 1 at O.P Jindal university, Sonipat (Haryana).
Israeli Ambassador’s view:
The Israeli embassy in India has raised serious concerns about an occurrence on the Israel-Palestine conflict that was held at OP Jindal Global University in Haryana on November 1. Naor Gilon, Israeli Ambassador wrote a letter to the university’s Vice Chancellor C Raj Kumar, expressing his “concern and
extreme disappointment” about a lecture delivered by writer and former Delhi University professor Achin Vanaik on the history of the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Leaked videos of the talk of the former professor of political science at Delhi University showed that how things are similar between Zionism and Hindutva nationalism and questioned why one act of violence is labelled terrorism.
Zionism is a nationalist movement that emerged in the 19th century to enable the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to
the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition.
Vainaik told to media, Zionism and Hindutva were different as the former was “not anti-Muslim” while the latter was “fundamentally and foundationally anti-Muslim and anti Islamic.”
He also said, “Suicide bombing expresses above all the determination not to kill much as the determination to die.”
A letter summoned by Dabiru Sridhar Patnaik, the registrar of the university to Vanaik that the statements made by him during his lecture on November 1 were unjustified and unrelated to the subject. Patnaik’s letter described his characterization of Zionism as “informative” but said the scholar’s comments on Hindutva were “unnecessary and objectionable”.
Early this month, IIT-Bombay cancelled a proposed lecture by Achin Vanaik on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
