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"This is about making sure that no one dares to challenge the narratives in corporate media and Western academia," Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي told Drop Site News 🎙️ EXCLUSIVE | Drop Site speaks with Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, international law scholar and outspoken defender of Palestinian rights, who... was recently suspended by Yale University. Doutaghi served as the Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale until March 2, when an AI-powered, far-right website called Jewish Onliner accused her of being a member of Samidoun, a pro-Palestine advocacy group that the U.S. government designated as a fundraising front for a terrorist organization in October 2024. Less than 24 hours after the article was published, Yale placed Doutaghi on leave, revoked her email access, banned her from campus, and launched an investigation into her activities. In the interview, Doutaghi discusses how her suspension reflects a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech in Western academia, fueled by growing pressure from both the U.S. government and elite institutions. She also addresses Yale’s decision to retain a lawyer with ties to the defense industry, who advertises “Israel” as one of the services he provides, to lead the investigation. This interview was conducted by jeremy scahill, who — as you’ll hear — is recovering from laryngitis, but pushed through to cover this critical story. Watch the full interview below or with the link in reply.show more

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Froggy891 year ago

@Helyeh_Doutaghi You get punished for speaking truth to power!

Hester Eisenstein1 year ago

@jeremyscahill @Helyeh_Doutaghi Thank you for this enlightening interview with Dr. Doutaghi. Yale is acting in as cowardly a manner as Columbia in bending to the intimidation of the Trump regime.

MBluzz1 year ago

@halalflow @Helyeh_Doutaghi We will challenge all these liars who support genocide and land theft. They are bankrupting America, and destroying the construction to get it done. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Free Palestine

Pardis1 year ago

@Helyeh_Doutaghi We are so proud of you @Helyeh_Doutaghi

unfortunate poet1 year ago

@Helyeh_Doutaghi You keep thinking you live in a Democracy. Silliness. After Citizens United you can outright buy whatever politician you want. They don't HAVE to do what you say, but guess what, they usually do...

Ali Emami 👊🏼👊🏾👊 ⚡️👑⚡️👊🏿👊🏻👊🏼1 year ago

Dr. @Helyeh_Doutaghi is the daughter of an Islamic Republic operative deeply embedded in the regime’s terror apparatus—a regime that systematically murders children. You can either remain as ridiculous as you are or actually stand by your words and defend human rights with action, not just rhetoric.

MarketWatch Sucks Donkey Dong1 year ago

@Helyeh_Doutaghi Something that everyone should pay attention to is that all of these anti-genocide protestors that are being attacked keep mentioning that they endured these attacks by thinking about how people in Palestine are suffering far worse… it’s truly heartbreaking but also inspiring!

Expert, PhD., MD, DDS, Esq.1 year ago

@Helyeh_Doutaghi So she applied for a student visa to come here. Why??? She's just a subversive. No sane country would welcome someone into their country to make trouble. This is common sense. She's free to speak her opinion in her home country.

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🚨 Yale Law’s former Law & Political Economy deputy director is now openly aligning herself with the Iranian regime and revolutionary anti-Western movements. Helyeh Doutaghi, fired from Yale in 2025 amid allegations of ties to the terror-linked group Samidoun, just delivered a fiery address at an event titled “Against Imperial Confusion: International Working Solidarity with Iran.” “We gather today in a moment of immense crisis, when genocide, siege, and systemic starvation are being inflicted by the worst of humanity against Palestine… and while the genocidal proxy of the United States continues its expansion of crimes and borders in West Asia.” She went on to declare: “Revolutionary optimism is not a sentiment. It is the recognition that history is made by the collective struggle of the masses… and that liberation, though hard fought, is inevitable.” This isn’t academic nuance. It’s ideological warfare dressed up as scholarship. And it should come as no surprise. Doutaghi previously accused Yale of ushering in “Zionist McCarthyism” after she was placed on leave for refusing to cooperate with an internal investigation into her alleged connections to Samidoun, a group the U.S. Treasury calls a “sham charitable organization” used to fund the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She claimed she feared deportation if she appeared in person to meet with Yale. Yale stated she refused to cooperate. Now she’s back, louder than ever, calling for global resistance under the banner of Iran. The only question that remains—is she still in the United States?

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Middle East Eye

3,803,542 views • 2 years ago

We've just been passed the BBC's response to a complaint after Good Morning Scotland concealed an academic's links to Labour during an interview about the winter fuel payment and a warning from Age Scotland. We've reproduced the complaint and response below. We've also included the full interview. There's something untoward at play here. The complaint: Good Morning Scotland conducted an interview with professor June Andrews. The interview centred around the cut to the winter fuel payment and had been prompted by criticism by Age Scotland of the UK Labour Govt's decision to cut the benefit. The charity had claimed that cutting the benefit would see more old people admitted to hospital with hypothermia. The interview was conducted by Laura Maxwell who introduced the academic as follows "Well Professor June Andrews is an expert in the care of older people." The academic challenged Age Scotland's claims and backed Labour's decision to cut the benefit. Professor Andrews views were later used on the programme to challenge Scottish Govt minister Ivan McKee. The academic was presented as someone with no political allegiances or viewpoints. This was far from the truth. Professor June Andrews is a Labour supporter and party activist who makes no attempt to hide her political allegiance. A quick glance at her social media profile - publicly available at the time of the interview - makes this clear, with post after post promoting tweets from senior Labour party figures. The academic tweeted an image during the recent general election campaign showing her with other Labour party activists as they campaigned for Labour candidate Gregor Poynton. Section 4.3.12 of the BBC Guidelines states 'We should not automatically assume that contributors from other organisations (such as academics, journalists, researchers and representatives of charities and think-tanks) are unbiased. Appropriate information about their affiliations, funding and particular viewpoints should be made available to the audience, when relevant to the context.' Professor June Andrews was far from unbiased. Good Morning Scotland should have told listeners that the academic was a Labour party activist and supporter. In failing to do so the programme breached Section 4.3.12 of the BBC Guidelines. A public apology is merited. The response: We note your comments regarding Good Morning Scotland on 28 October and the interview with Prof June Andrews. As you mention, Prof Andrews was introduced as an “an expert in the care of older people” and was being interviewed for her view in this capacity, following Age Scotland’s claim that the cutting of the universal winter fuel benefit for pensioners will see more old people admitted to hospital with hypothermia. Prof Andrews, given her area of expertise, has been a contributor on a number of occasions to items regarding the care of older people and was again introduced in this context, with a range of views on the subject heard within the wider programme – this included hearing directly from Scottish Government minister Ivan McKee, as you say. While we wouldn’t agree with a suggestion that simply holding any political views was a requisite for such an introduction, given the capacity in which Prof Andrews was invited onto the programme to speak, we would suggest that the conveyance to listeners of any political views that a contributor may hold is not limited to how a guest is introduced; for example, there is the opportunity within the line of questioning and by any political points being scrutinised and challenged – accepting that, in a live interview, in keeping the interview and programme on track, it isn’t always possible to challenge a guest on every point they’ve made and that it may be a subsequent interview or similar piece of our output that provides for other views and points to be put across. We note your call for a public apology but don’t believe it is merited here. We would, however, remind our teams of the merit of identifying and challenging, there and then, political points made during interviews. Thank you again for getting in touch.

MSM Monitor

28,722 views • 1 year ago

A few days ago, Indian media published an interview with a Hindu woman from Narail, Bangladesh, who had traveled to India to attend a wedding. In the interview, she spoke about the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh, claiming, “... they said there is no place for Hindus...” The interview was conducted after she crossed the border and was widely circulated in the media. However, in a recent video call with a journalist, the woman revealed that she had made that statement under pressure from the reporters. Out of fear, she said what they had instructed her to say.

A few days ago, Indian media published an interview with a Hindu woman from Narail, Bangladesh, who had traveled to India to attend a wedding. In the interview, she spoke about the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh, claiming, “... they said there is no place for Hindus...” The interview was conducted after she crossed the border and was widely circulated in the media. However, in a recent video call with a journalist, the woman revealed that she had made that statement under pressure from the reporters. Out of fear, she said what they had instructed her to say.

Shohanur Rahman

16,623 views • 1 year ago