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Russia and China ke taraf is we get it, it's the uyghurs and whatever, but the new anti narrative is banish Isreal when it clearly portrays a lack of consideration of statistics and actual research.
These colleges, once an epitome of greatness, have become pseudo political battlestones, and will singlehandedly bring down the entire stability of this nation.
Dictatorships don't have mechanisms for improving the situation and the battle of ideas there has already largely been lost, short of revolutions or sanctions or war, whereas democracies are by their nature amenable to criticism and improvement, both internally and externally. Therefore, saving those democracies on the brink with the tools that the study of law encourages, seems worthwhile.
But by all means, feel free to stand outside the Chinese or Iranian or North Korean or Saudi or Quatari or Venezuelan or El Salvadorian or Afghanistan or countless other embassies and hold a protest, if you think it is worthwhile. You'd probably be right too, but the sad reality is that those countries won't care and even its citizens won't even get to know.
- Criticise Israel and India because it presents a complex, intellectually stimulating exercise
- Ignore China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia because it is too easy and simple to criticise them.
#WokeLogic
A legitimate and interesting follow-up response from you could have been: should Indian university law and politics students and professors spend more time studying democracies or totalitarian states? And a possible answer could have been: there's probably something to learn from both, but if you're learning about the rule of law, surely democracies have more to offer there (unless you're interested inspecialising in how to make a career as a lawyer in North Korea or something).
Also: on what basis and for how long would you criticise dictatorships in academia? Could you write an academic paper about why [dictatorship X] is bad? Perhaps. But would it be very interesting, academically, or kinda obvious and something Chat GPT or any 10-year-old could churn out? Criticising a complex, vibrant and flawed democracy like the US political or legal system, however, requires a lot more nuance and understanding, and is more likely to teach you something about other democracies, including even India.