Summary
ICE agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in Columbia University’s encampment movement, claiming his student visa was revoked.
However, his attorney Amy Greer states he has a green card, not a student visa.
Despite filing a habeas corpus petition, Greer can’t locate where Khalil is being held, noting his eight-months-pregnant wife couldn’t find him at a New Jersey facility.
The arrest follows Trump’s March 4 social media threat to defund universities allowing “illegal protests” and deport “agitators.”
This is not normal. He did not commit a crime. Everyone in these borders has first amendment rights specifically to prevent the government from just declaring some people non citizens and oppressing them.
Don’t you understand?! 1st amendment only applies to things that align with the Trump party agenda.
That’s what makes America the most free country of all.
he isn’t being deported for his views its the fact he was a willing participate in a riot and committed a hate crime you don’t get to break our laws and expect to be allowed to stay
Lol, college students protesting on the college campus is not a riot, he’s not been officially charged with any crime either.
Where did you get “riot” from…? And hate crime? Riiight.
https://www.adl.org/resources/article/time-escalate-anti-israel-activists-intensify-protests-violent-direct-actions hate crime they are attacking a minority group for reasons of race and religion
This article doesn’t even mention his name. He was a leader on Columbia’s campus for pro-Palestine protests but all accounts show that he didn’t partake in or encourage any vandalism or barricading of buildings. Even your explicitly biased news source does not list enough evidence to convict this man of any crime worthy of revoking citizenship or trampling his free speech.
The Apartheid Defense League is not credible and not factual. They only care about Anti-zionism not anti-semitism. The Zionist tag you got checks out
How do you tag people?
I’m not sure all apps support it. I know Thunder and Voyager support tags
something needs to be done about the anti semitism on lemmy i get bombarded when ever i speak about my religion wich is jewish
If you’re serious about combating anti-semitism, you need to recognize the difference between Anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Genuine anti-semitism is more rare on Lemmy than other platforms, I call it out whenever I see it. None of us should tolerate any kind of Bigotry. Zionism is about Settler Colonialism and Ethnic Cleansing of native Palestinians, it is not reflective of Judaism nor is it representative of Jewish people. Anti-zionism is not anti-semitism. The conflation of the two is genuinely antisemitic, as it falsely attributes the actions of Israel to all Jewish people.
Zionism is anti-Semitic at it’s core, it other-izes Jewish people, and justifies the violent settler colonialim of Israel as in the defense of all Jewish people, which only serves to further fuel genuine Antisemitism at the expense of Jewish people globally. Zionism is also an inherently fascist ideology. The ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine has always been fundamental since it’s inception as a colonialist movement.
Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history.
The same adl that said that elon didn’t throw a nazi salute.
The ADL is a joke
Why are links to the ADL allowed anywhere on the internet?
Adding to what the other guy said, they can’t just revoke his green card. Only the courts can do that.
Go back to Reddit.