Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad

Prashad

Vijay Prashad is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the editor of Letters to Palestine (2014) and his most recent book is (with Noam Chomsky), On Cuba (2024).

 

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Palestinians have a rich pedigree in anti-colonial struggles, just look at the Spanish Civil War and the life of Muhammad Najati Sidqi, says Vijay Prashad.

14 April, 2025

The Indian roots of Beirut's Maghen Abraham synagogue are a reminder of the city's cosmopolitan nature and the harmony before Zionism, says Vijay Prashad.

17 March, 2025

After a decade-long witch-hunt, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is free. His release is a victory for those who speak truth to power, writes Vijay Prashad.

26 June, 2024

Narendra Modi may have won a third term in power, but Indian voters have sent the BJP a clear message: we reject your majoritarianism, writes Vijay Prashad.

06 June, 2024

The paranoid backlash to US campus protests is a reminder that direct action works, writes Vijay Prashad. And this time the students won't be deterred.

17 May, 2024

Comment: The rise in violent rhetoric, the scapegoating of minorities and the quashing of dissent all points in one direction, writes Vijay Prashad.

24 February, 2016

Comment: The only beneficiaries of nearly a year of bombing have been al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, writes Vijay Prashad.

10 February, 2016

Comment: People with a public history of fighting injustice will no longer be silenced by distorted, false and distracting claims of anti-Semitism, writes Vijay Prashad.

05 February, 2016

Comment: The New Silk Road will bypass the Suez Canal, and could change the nature of geopolitics in the region, notes Vijay Prashad.

28 January, 2016

Comment: Democracy is about more than elections; a culture of dissent must be embraced, writes Vijay Prashad.

20 January, 2016