Jennifer S. Ponce de León
Jennifer S. Ponce de León is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a faculty member in Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS), affiliated faculty in Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies (GSWS) and Cinema Studies, and a member of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature[1] as of September 2022. According to her university profile, her research focuses on 20th and 21st century Left wing movements and cultural production in the Americas and Marxist, anticolonial and postcolonial thought. She works across studies of visual arts, literature, and performance; transnational Latinx and Latin American studies; and critical theory.
According to her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact of or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva or the Indian Government.
In 2021, she along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the following allegation:
"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."[2]
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- ↑ Jennifer S. Ponce de León page on University of Pennsylvania accessed September 19, 2022
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022