Why Israel bombs Iranian universities and silences American ones

Why Israel bombs Iranian universities and silences American ones Submitted by Hamid Dabashi on Tue, 05/12/2026 - 17:34 The campaign against higher education - what many scholars now call scholasticide - reflects a deeper history of Israeli hatred of any academic culture it cannot dominate Journalists film outside a damaged mosque following strikes on Sharif University of Technology in Tehran on 7 April, 2026 (AFP) On "Iranians Condemn Strike on a Top University. " By the time The New York Times comes out to report on a vicious Israeli attack on Iranian universities, you know, as we say in Persian, "the soup is so salty even the cook must admit to it". But as always, the point is not for the so-called "paper of record" to report the truth about the terror perpetrated by The Times's favourite settler colony.