Khalistan supporter, Simran Jeet Singh is Assistant Professor of Inter-religious Histories at Union Theological Seminar, a Senior Fellow for the Sikh Coalition, a Open Society’s Soros Equality Fellow for 2020, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity with Columbia University and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the Executive Director of the Religion & Society Program at the Aspen Institute, and member of South Asia Scholars Activist Collective (SASAC). He was on Joe Biden’s AAPI Faith Advisory Committee and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Interfaith Advisory Committee. He is the author of the children’s book “Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon” and The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life.
In “Hindutva’s threat to academic freedom” Simran Jeet Singh, as part of SASAC, calls for the recognition of Hindutva as a political hate ideology that is distinct from Hinduism. He argues that Hindutva has “been instrumental in transforming India’s once pluralistic and secular democracy into an ethnonationalist state defined by Hindu supremacy and human rights violations.” The authors unwittingly agree that they want to gate-keep India’s history, preventing Hindus from seeking out India’s true history. “Such hate seeks to undermine our genuine, nuanced research, which presents a vision of South Asian history, religions and cultures as multifaceted and pluralistic. Our scholarship undercuts Hindutva’s project to remake India and Indian history.”
Simran Jeet Singh spreads disinformation and blatant lies through his article “Why Hindu nationalists are attacking Sikhs in Australia” published by Religionnews.com. He begins the article with a lie, calling the farmer’s protest “the largest protest in human history, according to several news outlets.” The news outlet and Simran Jeet Singh are incorrect. The farmer protest was by farmers in one state of India, Punjab. India has 28 states and 8 union territories. He further continues with the lies. In the piece on some Sikhs attacked in Australia during the farmer’s protest in India, he said, “Unlike most hate crimes that target Sikhs in the West, the attackers were not white supremacists or white nationalists; they were right-wing Indian nationalists terrorizing Sikhs in response to the protests against India’s new farm laws.” He gives the link to Australia’s Channel 7 as evidence of attack. The Australian news report mentions that the police were investigating the identity of the attackers and the cause for attacking Sikhs in Sydney’s Harris Park. Simran Jeet Singh without evidence, blames it on “Hindu nationalists” even though Australian police hadn’t identified the attackers.
In an article for the Time magazine “Why India Is Targeting Sikhs At Home and Around the World“, Simran Jeet Singh makes a case for Khalistan, a separate state for Sikhs. He describes Khalistani terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale as a “charismatic Sikh leader”. He is economical with the truth of Hindus in Punjab, the storage of arms and ammunition in the Golden Temple and the rape of Sikh women inside the Temple. The website, Punjab Files, has collated information from Indian newspapers about Khalistani attacks on Hindus. Simran Jeet Singh also doesn’t mention the deadliest terror attack on Canadian soil by Khalistani terrorists, the bombing of Air India Kanishka 182 on 23rd June 1985, which killed 350+ passengers and crew and two Japanese baggage handlers at Narita Airport, Japan.
Simran Jeet Singh in a 2021 article “The Farmers’ Protests Are a Turning Point for India’s Democracy—and the World Can No Longer Ignore That“, calls “Islamic terrorism” a bogeyman that the “right-wing authoritarian” government of India used against the press. He whitewashed the history of the 1970s Punjab’s violent agitation for a separate Khalistan state as ” agitation….for better government support of agriculture.” He then said about Operation Bluestar, “Following a disinformation campaign, the government launched a series of attacks that resulted in mass atrocities and egregious human rights abuses.” As previously mentioned, Simran Jeet Singh doesn’t mention the 1985 Air India bombing nor the assassination of former Army Chief General A.S. Vaidya in London by Khalistani terrorists in 1986. He dismisses the atrocities committed by Khalistani terrorists against Hindus of Punjab as a “disinformation campaign”.
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