CSRR in the News

2025

RSS exporting Hindutva to US. Pakistan Observer. Hassan Ahmad. (2025).

How Rutgers University became the battleground for Hindu inclusion. Religion News Service. (2025). (interviewing Audrey Truschke).

Mamdani’s Rise Represents a Rejection of Fear. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

This Muslim candidate hopes to break another barrier in November. Washington Post. (2025). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).

American Support for Israel Is a Political Religion. New Lines Magazine. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd. (2025).

America has Hindutva problem: Damning Rutgers report warns of dangers of India-origin radical groups. TRT World. (2025). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).

Hindu Supremacy in America: Rutgers Report Warns of Growing Threat to Pluralism and Civil Rights. NRI Affairs. (2025). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).

When I Look at Zohran Mamdani, Here’s What I See. New York Times. (2025). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).

Recognizing a Palestinian State as Gaza Still Burns. Arab Center Washington DC. Susan M. Akram. (2025).

Elite American media never had a ‘war on terror’ reckoning. Palestinians are paying the price. Prism Reports. Nausheen Husain. (2025).

Trump gives Hamas three to four days to accept proposal. TRT World Now. Ata Hind. (2025).

What in the What?? Hindu Nationalism Explained. Religion Dispatches. Audrey Truschke. (2025).

The New York Declaration on the Two-State Solution: More Empty Promises? Arab Center Washington DC. Susan M. Akram. (2025).

Trump’s War Against DEI Isn’t Going So Well in Virginia. The Hill. Jonathan Feingold (2025).

Texas Passed a Law Protecting Campus Speech. It’s on the Verge of Rolling It BackNew York Times. Jason Brownlee. (2025).

I finally got to thank Ben Affleck — for standing up to hate. Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Public opinion has changed on Gaza — but leaders still stuck. Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Canada must resist Trump’s imported erosion of rights.  Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty.(2025).

Cancelling trip to U.S. — out of fear. Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty.(2025).

Legal Aid Ontario surplus proof Ontario needs legal reform. Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty.(2025).

Canada and U.S. are stronger as neighbours. Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty.(2025).

MAGA’s Gaza Rift: How the Right Is Splintering Over Israel. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

What ‘Superman’ Says About Gaza—And Us. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Trump’s Military Crackdown on Los Angeles Was Unconstitutional. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

What the Next Pope Can Learn From Francis: A Muslim’s Reflection. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Trump Tariff Threats Are Already Reshaping Canada’s Political Future. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Canada Will Stand Firm Despite Trump’s Disastrous Tariffs. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Trump, Vance Debased U.S. Diplomacy—the World Noticed. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Can Trump Bring Peace to Ukraine? Newsweek Contributors Debate. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

What’s the Cause of the Gaza Crisis—Hamas’ Tyranny or Israel’s Blockade? Newsweek Contributors Debate. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Is Trump’s America Living up to Its Founding Ideals? Newsweek Contributors Debate. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Trump’s campaign to turn dissent into a deportable offence harms democracy. Al Jazeera. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

What the assault on Columbia University is really about. Al Jazeera. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Justin Trudeau’s Legacy: A Cautionary Tale for Progressive Leaders. Zeteo. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

‘Mo’ Season 2: A Masterclass in Storytelling, Humor, and Heart. Zeteo. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Israel Is Killing Doctors So Gaza Can Never Heal From Genocide. Al Jazeera. Ghada Ageel. (2025).

Israel’s Victims in Gaza Are Nameless in Western Media. These Are Their Names. Middle East Eye. Ghada Ageel. (2025).

Trump Administration Highlights: Judge Orders Halt on Deportations. New York Times. Ebrahim Rasool. (2025).

This Is the Birthright Reckoning That America Needs. New York Times. Aziz Rana. (2025).

Harvard Appears to Think All Jews Support Israel. That Is Discriminatory. The Guardian. Atalia Omer. (2025).

Inside Harvard’s Indoctrination Factory. National Review. Atalia Omer. (2025).

The Fall and Rise of German Arms Exports to Israel: Questions for the International Court of Justice. Just Security. Adil Ahmad Haque. (2025).

Indefensible: Israel’s Unlawful Attack on Iran.  Just Security. Adil Ahmad Haque (2025).

How Mass. Democrats are unwittingly helping Trump. Mass Live. Jonathan Feingold. (2025). 

Democrats will pay for ignoring base’s qualms about Gaza. MSN. George Bisharat. (2025).

Florida plan to deputize National Guard officers as immigration judges at Alligator Alcatraz would likely violate constitutional rights. The Conversation. Raquel E Aldana. (2025).

How will Canada be remembered for its response to the crisis in Gaza?. The Star. Naved Bakali. (2025). 

Interview with Audrey Truschke, author of India: 5000 Years of History. The Hindu. Audrey Truschke. (2025).

Yes to the People, No to Neofascism: How Should Iran Respond to the Israeli-U.S. Invasion? Jadaliyya. Mojtaba Mahdavi. (2025).

The National Education Association just voted to cut all ties to the Anti-Defamation League. Mondoweiss. Emmaia Gelman. (2025).

How Support for Palestine Became a Hate Crime. Jewish Currents. (2025). (interviewing Shirin Sinnar).

As an Iraqi and a feminist, I side with the people of Iran and Palestine, not with their oppressors. New Arab. Zahra Ali. (2025).

Searching in the Rubbles for Jewish-Muslim Worlds. ReOrient Blog. Atalia Omer. (2025).

I am an Israeli Professor: Why is work in Harvard’s antisemitism report?. The Guardian. Atalia Omer. (2025).

The Real Threat of the Nonprofit “Terrorism” Provision in Trump’s Big Bill. Slate. Shirin Sinnar. (2025).

“Rumi and Shakespeare:  On Forgiveness and Reconciliation,” Renovatio. Juan Cole. (2025)

“Cyberpunk Nation:  How Donald Trump’s America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism,”. TomDispatch. Juan Cole. (2025).

Why I violated the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Middle East Eye. Joel Beinin. (2025).

Powers of the Unseen: Curator’s Conversation with Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Wendell Marsh. Express Newark. Wendell Marsh (2025).

Science and Civilization. Moroccan National Television. (2025). (interviewing Wendell Marsh).

Insiders to Premodern South Asian History. Shuddhashar. Audrey Truschke. (2025).

The Constitution v. Democracy. Behind the News. Aziz Rana. (2025). 

Racist Treatment of Black Men is Systemic. NJ Urban News. (2025). (interviewing Paul Butler).

The Costs of Having It All: On Netflix’s “Dubai Bling”. Public Books. Tazeen M. Ali. (2025).

“Get Married or Chai Trying”. Arc Magazine. Tazeen M. Ali. (2025).

Trump and Democrats Preside Over an Empire in Crisis. BreakThrough News. Nazia Kazi. (2025).

How Trump’s attacks on DEI and Palestine activists are connected. Mondoweiss. Sahar Aziz. (2025).

Constitutional Collapse. New Left Review. Aziz Rana. (2025).

“What Just Happened: The Framing of a Migration “Invasion” and the Use of Military Authorities.” Just Security. William C. Banks. (2025).

“The Only Way to Stop the Netanyahu-Trump Plan to Eliminate Palestine Is to Begin Rebuilding Gaza Now.” Mondoweiss.  Muhannad Ayyash. (2025).

“Trump’s Gaza “Takeover” Plan Breaches International Law: Experts.” Yeni Safak. Yeni Safak. (2025).

Can a ceasefire end settler colonial genocide? Al Jazeera. Muhannad Ayyash. (2025).

Gender Politics and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Scholarship Program. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Nermin Allam. (2025).

The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil. Dissent Magazine. Wadie Said. (2025)

The Astroturf “Civil Rights” Groups Fueling Trump’s Deportation Attacks. Academe Blog. Emmaia Gelman. (2025).

How Jewish scholars are attacked in America for calling out Gaza genocide. Middle East Eye. Raz Segal. (2025).

War Crimes Demand Accountability—No Matter the Perpetrator. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Trump’s Gaza Plan Undermines Justice and International Law. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Gaza Ceasefire Is Just the Beginning of the Path to Peace. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).

Two Genocides: Gaza and Metropolis. Counterpunch. M. Shahid Alam. (2025).

Harvard’s new antisemitism policy hurts Jews, helps Trump. The Hill. Jonathan Feingold. (2025). 

We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants. The Conversation. Brittany Friedman. (2025).

2023 – 2024

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2021 – 2022

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2015 – 2020

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