Hyderabad: Ornit Shani, Israeli academic, author, and professor at the University of Haifa, was jeered during a session at the University of Hyderabad (UoH). Placards like ‘Israel is a genocide cancer,’ ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘Hindutva and Zionism, ideological cousins,’ were raised. A student group at the University of Hyderabad disrupted a talk by author and historian Ornit Shani, questioning her academic association with the University of Haifa and her work on Hindutva in India. The student community has largely questioned her continued silence over the ongoing genocide of Palestinians by the Israeli military and Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Moreover, activists have actively argued that Israeli academics are intertwined with state and military frameworks, thus making them unreliable.