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Hoda Afshar documents Australian government whistleblowers in new photography and film project
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In Agonistes, Hoda Afshar asks us to judge our democracy by the way it treats its whistleblowers.
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A young woman who witnessed the inhumane treatment of refugees in offshore detention; an officer who saw the corruption of the Australian Defence Force firsthand; a disability care worker who uncovered a system of physical abuse of children and adults with autism.
These are just three of the Australian whistleblowers whose portraits are hanging outside Melbourne s St Paul s Cathedral.
One of the most disturbing parts of Azoulay’s lecture was the response from those present.
At the outset, the Cornell chair of architecture, Andrea Lee Simitch, acknowledged that the lecture was controversial and promised to organize a future discussion with different viewpoints. In response, some 1,000 academics, architects, and Cornellians signed an open letter against bringing in another speaker. Their fear of engaging in dialogue and refusal to hear another side is the antithesis of academia, and a clear example of censorship.
This is not the only recent instance of a guest speaker at Cornell pushing an anti-Israel agenda.
In November, assistant professor Julia Chang invited Sa’ed Atshan, himself an assistant professor of peace and conflict studies at Swarthmore College and author of