Immigration judge Jamee Comans has told Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer, "I’m like you Mr Van Der Hout. I’d like to see the evidence.... If he’s not removable, I’m going to be terminating this case on Friday."
Van Der Hout said he had “not received a single document” in response to his request for “evidence and assertions” in the case.
https://aje.io/z0dtpf?update=3631713
#MahmoudKhalil #trump #fascism #studentprotests #uspol #bds .
Interview: Trump's War on the First Amendment: Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & Journalists
Legal scholars say the country is facing a constitutional crisis as Trump:
* ignores judicial decisions
* targets law firms
* uses the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan immigrants without due process.
Trump “is trying to neutralize the opposition [&] violate the law with impunity.”
~David Cole
Immigration judge Jamee Comans has told Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer, "I’m like you Mr Van Der Hout. I’d like to see the evidence.... If he’s not removable, I’m going to be terminating this case on Friday."
Van Der Hout said he had “not received a single document” in response to his request for “evidence and assertions” in the case.
Interview: Palestinians Speak Out Against Princeton Welcoming Israeli War Criminal, former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett
Bennett is touring north American campuses, coinciding with the deportations, detainments, and disappearances of students at these same campuses for protesting Israel’s genocide.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/palestinians-speak-out-against-princeton
#israeliwarcriminals #princeton #uspol #;freepalestine #studentprotests #fascism #illegaldeportations .
Interview: Palestinians Speak Out Against Princeton Welcoming Israeli War Criminal, former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett
Bennett is touring north American campuses, coinciding with the deportations, detainments, and disappearances of students at these same campuses for protesting Israel’s genocide.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/palestinians-speak-out-against-princeton
#israeliwarcriminals #princeton #uspol #;freepalestine #studentprotests #fascism #illegaldeportations .
Speaking of cowardice, complicity, and paving the road for fascism, let us not forget that the Trump regime's enabling of an ongoing genocide by Israel in Gaza, their fascist kidnapping spree against student protestors, and their quest to control American universities under the guise of "fighting antisemitism" are built on the back of policies, and in particular ideological justifications, provided by a Democratic Party that picked supporting genocide, hunting down migrants, and building out a police state over winning "the most important election in American history."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/universities-columbia-trump
Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdown
"For instance, the reason Trump could plausibly refer to Gaza a “demolition site” is because, for more than a year prior to his re-election, his Democratic predecessor (urged on by Schumer and others) supplied unlimited weapons to Israel to carry out a campaign of destruction that has few modern equivalents – a campaign that was not just restricted to Gaza, but also extended to the West Bank, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon and Syria. Biden’s planned successor, Kamala Harris, and her surrogates repeatedly stressed to voters that these policies would continue largely unchanged under her watch.
Even before Trump had a chance to weigh in, Joe Biden immediately characterized the protests at Columbia as “antisemitic” and declared that “order must prevail” on college campuses. Democratic lawmakers put aggressive pressure on the former Columbia University president Minouche Shafik to crush the protests. She ultimately did so with the assistance of New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams (who justified his clampdown via evidence-free statements that the protests were driven primarily by “outside agitators”). Trump celebrated the pictures and videos of students getting roughed up by the NYPDand, upon Trump’s reclaiming the White House, the justice department interceded on behalf of Adams – making his criminal investigation go away in apparent exchange for the mayor adopting a more aggressive posture on immigration – a move that critics claim is a quid pro quo.
In a similar vein, it was Biden who enshrined the IHRA definition of antisemitism into federal guidance, despite the definition’s author repeatedly describing it as a “travesty” to use this definition to regulate speech and behavior. Building on Biden’s introduction, Trump is poised to sign a bill that would implement this same definition into federal anti-discrimination law – and in the meantime, he’s insisting Columbia and other schools adopt this definition in their own codes of conduct. NYU and Harvard have already taken this step, overriding concerns by civil rights and civil liberties organizations – from the ACLU, to Fire and the AAUP, to Israeli civil rights groups – who stressed that IHRA’s definition is extremely vague and provides strong leeway for institutional stakeholders to censor most critical discussion of Israel, Zionism or Judaism more broadly, by Jews and non-Jews alike."
Look, you can criticize me for playing "the blame game" all you like, but every goddamn thing Trump is doing surrounding the US-backed genocide in Gaza, including the domestic installation of fascist ideological policing, was and is facilitated by a Biden administration that was warned all of this - from Trump winning, to deploying War on Terror logic repression on anti-genocide protesters - was on the table if they didn't change course. If you want to know why only fourteen Democrats signed a letter decrying the fascist abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, and only thirty-four Democrat lawmakers signed the letter demanding the release of Rumeysa Ozturk (whose only "crime" appears to be have been writing an op-ed calling for her University to divest from Israel and condemn a genocide) you don't have to look any further than a mainstream Democratic Party leadership class that's fat on AIPAC donations and happily told you student protestors were violent antisemites who endorsed terrorist organizations, demanded colleges take action to suppress the protests, and justified a brutal police crackdown on... college kids who don't want their government to facilitate a genocide. It's kind of hard to criticize all that fascism when your donors love it and you directly made the arguments Trump is using to conduct it, after all.
Analysis: Trump's tactics are firmly in line with a longstanding German policy of putting support for Israel, no matter how heinous its crimes, above the basic free speech rights of its citizens."
Lawyer Alexander Gorski describes how Germany has "weaponized the concept of anti-semitism to stifle dissent and to suppress speech."
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/video-donald-trump-germany-criminalize-pro-palestine-activism
#trump #autocracy #studentprotests #germany #uspol #resistfascism #europol .
Analysis: Trump's tactics are firmly in line with a longstanding German policy of putting support for Israel, no matter how heinous its crimes, above the basic free speech rights of its citizens."
Lawyer Alexander Gorski describes how Germany has "weaponized the concept of anti-semitism to stifle dissent and to suppress speech."
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/video-donald-trump-germany-criminalize-pro-palestine-activism
#trump #autocracy #studentprotests #germany #uspol #resistfascism #europol .
Interview: "Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil"
The students demanded the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/3/ice_students_immigrants_mahmoud_khalil
#columbia #studentprotests #autocracy #trump #uspol #ice #resistfascism #islamophobia #racism .
"Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that."
You Don't Get #Trump Without #Gaza
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-gaza-fascism/
#USpol #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #stateRepression #StudentProtests #civilLiberties #MAGA #BlueMAGA #TheEvilOfTwoLessers @palestine @israel
"Coup at Columbia? School’s Capitulation to Trump"
"It feels like a kind of racial and ethnic cleansing that is happening on our campuses.”
"Students from abroad, even those with green cards & U.S. citizenship, are now terrified of being swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown."
~Former Law Prof Katherine Franke
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/2/university_trump_gaza_harvard_princeton_columbia
#uspol #trump #islamophobia #columbia #studentprotests #racism #fascism #resist .
Interview: "Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil"
The students demanded the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/3/ice_students_immigrants_mahmoud_khalil
#columbia #studentprotests #autocracy #trump #uspol #ice #resistfascism #islamophobia #racism .
Analysis: Trump's tactics are firmly in line with a longstanding German policy of putting support for Israel, no matter how heinous its crimes, above the basic free speech rights of its citizens."
Lawyer Alexander Gorski describes how Germany has "weaponized the concept of anti-semitism to stifle dissent and to suppress speech."
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/video-donald-trump-germany-criminalize-pro-palestine-activism
#trump #autocracy #studentprotests #germany #uspol #resistfascism #europol .
Interview: "Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil"
The students demanded the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/3/ice_students_immigrants_mahmoud_khalil
#columbia #studentprotests #autocracy #trump #uspol #ice #resistfascism #islamophobia #racism .
"Coup at Columbia? School’s Capitulation to Trump"
"It feels like a kind of racial and ethnic cleansing that is happening on our campuses.”
"Students from abroad, even those with green cards & U.S. citizenship, are now terrified of being swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown."
~Former Law Prof Katherine Franke
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/2/university_trump_gaza_harvard_princeton_columbia
#uspol #trump #islamophobia #columbia #studentprotests #racism #fascism #resist .
"Coup at Columbia? School’s Capitulation to Trump"
"It feels like a kind of racial and ethnic cleansing that is happening on our campuses.”
"Students from abroad, even those with green cards & U.S. citizenship, are now terrified of being swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown."
~Former Law Prof Katherine Franke
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/2/university_trump_gaza_harvard_princeton_columbia
#uspol #trump #islamophobia #columbia #studentprotests #racism #fascism #resist .
Analysis: Betar is a far-right pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide.
Betar is working closely with Trump's administration, "preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported."
#betar #trump #fascism #genocide #uspol #studentprotests #deportation #racism #islamophobia .
Analysis: Betar is a far-right pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide.
Betar is working closely with Trump's administration, "preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported."
#betar #trump #fascism #genocide #uspol #studentprotests #deportation #racism #islamophobia .
Trump's fascist "catch and revoke" and deport list... so far.
A list of the people the US is trying to deport over their anti-genocide views:
https://aje.io/7xd759?update=3609246
Trump's list reportedly contains at least 300 names.
#fascism #trump #uspol #studentprotests #islamophobia #racism .
![Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of
Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts, the US, on March 26, 2025 [AP
Rhoto]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/255/988/605/461/902/original/a51516c601dd1065.jpg "Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of
Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts, the US, on March 26, 2025 [AP
Rhoto]")
Trump's fascist "catch and revoke" and deport list... so far.
A list of the people the US is trying to deport over their anti-genocide views:
https://aje.io/7xd759?update=3609246
Trump's list reportedly contains at least 300 names.
#fascism #trump #uspol #studentprotests #islamophobia #racism .
![Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of
Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts, the US, on March 26, 2025 [AP
Rhoto]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/248/698/170/774/448/original/b3988ab916af9d4b.jpg "Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of
Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts, the US, on March 26, 2025 [AP
Rhoto]")
