Helyeh Dotaghi did not get the headlines that announced the arrest and threat of deportation of Mahmoud Khalil (). He, activist at Columbia University, is a direct victim of Trump. She, Iranian, visiting teacher in Yale, was banned by the institution itself. Its history reveals the two repulsive faces of university leaders who enshrine their efforts to identity policies.
The initial chapter of history took place in 2023, when the Yale Law School invited Doutaghi to occupy the deputy director of the project of law and political economy, which is shown as a platform for “economic, racial and gender equality.” Last year, she starred in an event of the project entitled “A economic policy of genocide and imperialism”-that, surprise!, Focused on “genocide in Palestine”.
No news. Yale has been renamed his faculties to suppress characters connected to slavery and destroys supposedly offensive stained glass. In 2017, after a decision to “decolonize” the English Department, replaced its Renaissance Art History course to the present “with a course focused on” gender, class and race “questions, as well as” involvement of art with Western capitalism. “
The renunciation of critical research in the name of ideological preaching is old news. In this chapter, the remarkable is that Doutaghi does not have the profile of a typical identity activist. She makes a point of wearing the Islamic veil even in US classrooms. It is not “culture,” but a political statement against Iranian women facing the lethal repression of religious police in their country. Much worse, it helps to drive an anti-imperialist committee in solidarity with Iran, a foreign policy vehicle sponsored by the Iranian theocratic regime.
There is a lesson there. In his identity fever, Yale offered a megaphone to a dictatorship that oppresses women and only admits the “freedom of expression” of their propagandists.
The final chapter is no less ugly. Yale justified Doctaghi’s banishment alleging “potentially illegal conduct”: his hypothetical connection with Samidoun, an international network of solidarity to Palestinian prisoners designated as a terrorist entity by Israel and Canada whose acting is also restricted in the US and Germany.
The Samidoun celebrates the October 7 attacks in Israel, incense the “heroes” and “martyrs” of Hamas and Hezbollah, calls for “US death, Canada and Israel.” Doutaghi participated in public events of the Palestinian network, but denies that it belongs to it – and there are no evidence of such a connection. In fact, Yale’s accusation against his academic-artist seems to be exclusively of research conducted by an artificial intelligence robot-and, above all, does not point to any crime.
The ban on has a different reason. Yale fears Trump’s offensive against freedom of word in American universities. It does not want to occupy the same place as Columbia, whose federal financing has just been suspended. Therefore, on his knees, he acts preventively, doing what he thinks is the desire of the White House.
Back there, Yale sacrificed academic freedom on the altar of identity preaching. Now the incinera in the burning pyre of submission to the White House. It’s a way to be coherent.
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