1/ It’s possible to think two thoughts at once: 1. Khalil’s detention is Palmer-Raid-level abuse and 2. Khalil probably does support Hamas, because that’s the often-stated position of CUAD, the group he worked with.
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That's bogus, you propagandist! How does he support Hamas because he doesn't want innocent Palestinian men, women, and children to be victims in Israel's genocide?! Stop spreading propaganda under the guys of "neutral concern."
If I was a young man in Palestine and saw my entire family shot at from afar, most of my family killed or imprisoned and displaced, my young nieces and nephews get their jaws and limbs blown off, my people get slowly killed off, mainly women and children, the last thing I would do is to fight back!
I would at least have the decency to realize that maintaining decorum and following institutional norms far supersedes the horrific experiences of my family
Forgot to turn off comments and reposts on this one huh? Delete your account and go back to Twitter with the fascists and boot lickers where you belong.
Isaac, I'm not the government and I'm not making a case. I get to speculate. CUAD, of which he is an active member, has been unabashed about its support for Hamas as well as Hezbollah, Nothing controversial there.
Isaac, have you ever been up to Columbia and seen a protest? Did you see the encampments? I feel like you're functioning with a fairly abstract understanding of what CUAD is.
A few items of CUAD protest paraphrenialia: Hamas and Hezbollah flags, green headbands, inverted red triangles, literature stamped "Hamas Media Office." I can't prove anything about Khalil's feelings about this, which is protected speech. But nothing hidden about it. It comes out at every protest.
grimly fascinating to see it doesn't matter what the ethnostate in question is, its defenders eventually start direly muttering about a fifth column of treacherous Jews that must be dealt with to save the Fatherland.
if only big strong President Trump would deal with these JVP people, eh, Judith
2/ The Barnard library occupation, which he was part of, featured posters glorifying Sinwar and leaflets stamped with official Hamas logo, glorifying 10/7. But those are just posters and leaflets—political speech, not material support— and
3/ while I find them odious, they are far from sufficient cause for deportation. No question that Trump and Rubio are out to degrade our civil liberties and that this is just the beginning
So... take the first two posts, use them to advance the fascist case against enemies of the state. Use the third to pretend you give a fuck about human rights and democracy?
You are right and it is revealing that the friends and supporters of Kahili turn to Democrats to rescue him from Gulag - even they know their extremist anti-Democrat rhetoric is nonsense.
The reason you are comfortable slandering Khalil based on literally no evidence and the vaguest unfounded assertions that he's an arch-antisemite is because you are a racist who does not view Palestinians as people, just a collective mass of threat. Racism is why you support the cleansing of Gaza
You once wrote a beautiful essay rightly criticizing Robert Warshow for dehumanizing the Rosenbergs, but your rhetoric on Khalil is even more dehumanizing. This is from Murtaza Hussain, a very careful reporter
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You're no better than the Trump Administration!
if only big strong President Trump would deal with these JVP people, eh, Judith
Fuck off. Go back to twitter, Judy.
“no question” yeah we know, thanks for ur contribution to this erosion of civil liberties
Except you. They can have you for free.