r/ZZZionism • u/Small_Practical • Nov 11 '24

CENSORSHIP MIT suspends student and bans magazine for article opposing Gaza genocide

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/11/09/ouvu-n09.html
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u/Small_Practical Nov 11 '24 edited Nov 11 '24

To elaborate, MIT removed the Written Revolution magazine. The magazine Written Revolution describes themselves under their as the following:

Welcome:

Welcome to the Written Revolution! We are an MIT student group who came together to create a platform for revolutionary ideas. Our bi-monthly zine began in February 2024 to uplift the voices of the Palestinian struggle in the US war machine. We feature poetry, essays, speeches, cartoons, art, and any other content which forwards global solidarity against capitalism-imperialism. This website hosts our current and past editions as well as contact for how to get involved!

About Us:

Written Revolution is a publication empowering voices on campus to share their creative projects in a collective framework. Fundamentally, this publication platforms revolutionary thought on campus - we believe that writing and art are among the most powerful tools for conducting a revolution. We are aligned with the liberation of all oppressed peoples, with global indigenous rights movements, with people-oriented philosophies and practices, and with anti-capitalist sentiment. In particular, we want to spotlight projects that engage with culture and community by producing radical shifts away from the hierarchical and individualistic. We share essays, poems, sketches, cartoons, and many other forms of content in order to further the liberatory frame of mind. Written Revolution is open to those who support our cause, and our content submission is open to all MIT community members. We also summarize revolutionary actions and activities taken on campus to further the call to liberation, be it through student unions, grassroots movements and demonstrations, or large-scale organizing. We are here to encourage such collective action on our campus. We are the revolution, and we are writing our own history.

Not only did they suspend Prahlad Iyengar, but also banned the American Sociological Association recognized magazine as written in his statement.

I am also linking the article in question from the original edition on pages 32 titled On Pacifism, but also another link here. The article is excellent. It was about resisting colonial power and imperialism, and using Ward Churchill's essay Pacifism as Pathology in achieving revolutionary praxis. I highly recommend reading this article and others within this magazine.

Edit: It was brought to my attention that Ward Churchill is a controversial figure due to his academic issues along with claims of being Native when not. I want to make it clear I am not supporting this, but rather just summing the analysis Iyengar did using Churchill's work.

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u/VeeEcks Nov 11 '24

Ward Churchill? Really?

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u/Small_Practical Nov 11 '24

Are there issues with him I am not aware of?

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u/VeeEcks Nov 11 '24

He was exposed as a white man pretending to be native for decades like twenty years ago. Not exactly the guy you want to quote re anti-colonialism.

Anyway, this still sucks and fuck MIT.

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u/Small_Practical Nov 11 '24

Thank you for pointing this out. I am going to add an extra statement regarding this. This is a shame because when I first looked into him at the surface, it seemed he had significant influence in critiquing American foreign policy and had interesting takes on terrorism.