Amir Hussain writing in Academic Blog:”It should not be forgotten today that the state of persecution depends on grand narratives to mobilize the immense engine of state power toward manufactured crises, forcing actors to act and react immediately. In this mass crisis mode, statis, rule of law, moral accountability, and statutory rights are provisionally repealed, and swapped in their place is a climate of fear, illegitimate authority, and persecution of the other intended to become the permanent condition. As Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi describes it, ‘We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet.’” Read more here