Somdeep Sen

Somdeep Sen

Somdeep Sen is the author of Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial. He’s a Research Associate at the Center for ...Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria.


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Turning leaders into symbols of evil makes intervention easy to justify and its consequences easy to ignore.

Opinion by Somdeep Sen
Published On 13 Mar 2026
Mourners hold posters depicting Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, right in the posters, the successor to his late father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left in the posters, as supreme leader, during the funeral procession for senior Iranian military officials and civilians killed during the U.S.-Israel campaign in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

From Washington to Copenhagen and Pretoria, blaming migrants has become the easiest governing strategy of our time.

Opinion by Somdeep Sen
Published On 5 Dec 2025
President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting.