An opinion essay published in the Bangladeshi outlet *Amar Desh* on June 5, 2026, draws parallels between wartime destruction and current assaults on academic institutions. It highlights reports of Israeli strikes on Iranian universities, including Sharif University of Technology and others, describing them as deliberate efforts to erase a nation’s intellectual and cultural continuity. The piece cites Columbia University professor Hamid Dabashi’s argument that such attacks represent a systematic destruction of knowledge, or “epistemicide,” targeting Iran’s centuries-old scholarly tradition.
The article also connects these events to the suppression of pro-Palestinian voices on U.S. campuses, where police interventions and administrative pressures have curtailed student protests. It argues that both the bombings in the Middle East and the silencing in American universities serve the same purpose—weakening spaces of free inquiry and dissent. The author warns that this normalization of violence and censorship against universities signals a moral decline, where societies grow indifferent to the destruction of knowledge and the erosion of intellectual freedom.
The essay concludes that the fate of universities now symbolizes a broader struggle between knowledge and power, questioning whether humanity will defend learning or succumb to fear and conformity.
সৈয়দ মুসা রেজা প্রকাশ : ০৫ জুন ২০২৬, ১০: ১৪ জনাথন গ্লেজারের অস্কারজয়ী পোলিশ চলচ্চিত্র ‘দ্য জোন অব ইন্টারেস্ট’-এর সবচেয়ে ভয়ংকর দিক সম্ভবত তার নীরবতা। আউশভিৎস কনসেনট্রেশন ক্যাম্পের দেয়ালের ঠিক পাশেই নাৎসি কর্মকর্তা রুডলফ হেসের পরিবার সুখের সংসার ক
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