The secret police are no longer secret. We are under occupation. Any one of us could be disappeared next. Legality means nothing anymore.
Another student has been arrested for “thought crime”.
The court filing said Mahdawi was targeted by a pro-Israel organization #Betar USA, which said on social media that “visa holder Mohsen Mahdawi is on our deport list.”
In a previous interview with “60 Minutes” regarding the protests, Mahdawi had condemned an individual who came to one and yelled “death to Jews.”
“I was shocked and they walked directly to the person and they told him, ‘You don’t represent us,’” he said, adding “to be antisemitic is to be unjust and the fight for the freedom of Palestine and the fight against antisemitism go hand in hand because a threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5248506-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-dhs-ice/
#palestine #justice #freespeech #precrime #thoughtcrime #fascists
Another student has been arrested for “thought crime”.
The court filing said Mahdawi was targeted by a pro-Israel organization #Betar USA, which said on social media that “visa holder Mohsen Mahdawi is on our deport list.”
In a previous interview with “60 Minutes” regarding the protests, Mahdawi had condemned an individual who came to one and yelled “death to Jews.”
“I was shocked and they walked directly to the person and they told him, ‘You don’t represent us,’” he said, adding “to be antisemitic is to be unjust and the fight for the freedom of Palestine and the fight against antisemitism go hand in hand because a threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5248506-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-dhs-ice/
#palestine #justice #freespeech #precrime #thoughtcrime #fascists
