Suffocating the academic and student solidarity movement for Palestinian liberation in Finnish higher education (2023) Anaïs Duong-Pedica is a warning of an arriving regime. It maps out how the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Finland is being shunned and how people asking for a ceasefire for Gaza are silenced by public institutions they serve. We are now witnessing proper censorship acts for example at Aalto University, where a students course work was removed before it was evaluated by the teacher. I imagine similar cases happening in the press too. There is too much happening to plot out what is taking place in the domain of art but it appears that presenting opinions publicly, which work against a mainstream narrative and against a definition dividing people as terrorists or human rights advocates, based on their usefulness for western powers, are made more difficult then before.
Eero Yli-Vakkuri