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Decolonial Dispatch · Jul 28, 2025 · 41 min

Treated Like Terror!sts: The Crackdown on Protest

Protesters are being arrested, surveilled, and labelled as terrorists — from student campuses in the US to indigenous uprisings in France’s colonies. In this episode, Mohamed Elnaiem and Liz Fekete expose how states are using colonial tactics and paramilitary policing to silence dissent. What starts with Palestine solidarity is part of a global pattern: criminalising protest, erasing rights, and calling it democracy. Subscribe and listen — because staying silent won’t save you either. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Protesters are being arrested, surveilled, and labelled as terrorists — from student campuses in the US to indigenous uprisings in France’s colonies. In this episode, Mohamed Elnaiem and Liz Fekete expose how states are using colonial tactics and paramilitary policing to silence dissent. What starts with Palestine solidarity is part of a global pattern: criminalising protest, erasing rights, and calling it democracy.


Subscribe and listen — because staying silent won’t save you either.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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