"America First" Felon President Sees Free Speech As Only Republican Privileges!
Mahmoud Khalil had his legal rights violated. The Trump Show is a nightmare.
Y'all voted for this.
Jews are not safe.
What about the rest of us?
So if you're an Arab, Muslim, transgender American, a Black woman, a disabled American, a sex worker, a homeless person, a person who has mental health issues, a working class person who struggles, or person who doesn't support our president, you are not allowed to criticize.
You cannot criticize Israel, a foreign country. You cannot make Jews feel uncomfortable.
Try living as a Black person.
Try living as a Arab person.
Try living as an indigenous person.
Try living as a transgender woman.
Try living as a gay couple.
Try living as a disabled person.
Try living as a Muslim.
Try living as a Satanist.
We been uncomfortable for centuries. These folks have privileges to travel across the ocean to establish a pilgrimage to a land that seriously believes its destined for one specific religion to conquer. They see others as inferior and treat them with such disdain.
President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Congress, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York City mayor Eric Adams and the junk food media are doing the bidding of Israel.
The detaining and illegal arrest of Mahmoud Khalil has the nation talking.
The Trump Administration has revoked a federal funding to Columbia University in response to alleged incidents of antisemitism. The Trump Administration also threatened to criminally arrest people engaged in illegal protests.
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appeared at Columbia and made disparaging remarks towards protesters.
Betar US is a far right extremist organization responsible for the illegal arrest of Khalil.
Having a green card makes you a U.S. resident.
Mahmoud Khalil, a student activist and negotiator in the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at his home on March 8, 2025. The agents were acting on orders from the State Department to revoke Khalil’s student visa. When the agents were informed that Khalil, of Palestinian and Syrian nationality and Algerian citizenship, was a lawful permanent resident of the United States in possession of a green card, they said they were revoking that instead.
You cannot stop dissent.
The detention is the first publicly known deportation effort related to pro-Palestine activism under Trump, who has threatened to punish students and others who he believes support Hamas or promote antisemitism. It received widespread backlash from members of the Democratic Party and other organizations, who alleged it was an attack on freedom of speech and the First Amendment.
Khalil was taken by multiple plainclothes officers from his apartment in Columbia University housing. Khalil's wife recalled that when they were returning home from an Iftar dinner, an ICE officer followed them into their building and asked if her husband was Mahmoud Khalil, which he confirmed. The officer then told Khalil to come with them and asked her to give them the keys to the apartment, which she refused to do. The officer told her that they would arrest her too, and the officers later barricaded Mahmoud from her. She stated they were not shown a warrant and that “within minutes, they had handcuffed Mahmoud, took him out into the street and forced him into an unmarked car.” A Columbia spokesperson declined to say whether, before the arrest, the university had received a warrant for the ICE agents to access property the university owned. The spokesperson also declined to comment on the arrest.
Khalil was taken into custody in the presence of his wife, a U.S. citizen. He was able to call his lawyer, Amy Greer, from the building's lobby. She spoke over the phone with one of the ICE agents, who told her that they were acting on State Department orders to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Greer said that when she informed the agent that Khalil was a permanent resident of the U.S. in possession of a green card, the agent responded that they would revoke the green card instead. When Greer said she needed to see a warrant before Khalil could be detained, the agent hung up.
As of March 9, Greer was uncertain of Khalil's whereabouts, noting the possibility that he could be as far away as Louisiana. Khalil's pregnant wife, who sought to visit him at a detention center in New Jersey, was informed that he was not there. On March 10, according to the ICE inmate locator website, Khalil appeared to be in LaSalle Detention Center in Louisiana.
Greer filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the the Southern District of New York on March 9, and the next day Judge Jesse Furman ruled that Khalil could not be removed from the U.S. while the court assessed the case. At a March 12 hearing, the government argued for a change of venue to either New Jersey or Louisiana, where Khalil had been held in detention. His lawyers asked that he be returned to New York. Furman ordered that Khalil be allowed two attorney-client-privileged phone calls, and that both the government and Khalil's lawyers submit plans on March 14 for further arguments. Khalil has separately been scheduled for a hearing before an immigration judge in Louisiana on March 27.
Courts have ruled that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects a broad range of political speech, including unpopular or contentious viewpoints, and have struck down regulations that could have a chilling effect or otherwise target speech based on viewpoint. In 2023, government lawyers considered whether removing a foreign national for exercising their first amendment rights would be constitutional, and concluded it would not be.
A legal permanent resident could be deported due to having been convicted of certain criminal offenses, and immigration laws in Congress can make a person deportable for some other conduct that does not itself constitute a crime. If the State Department has reasonable grounds to believe that a non-citizen's presence or activities in the country would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences, that individual could also be deported.
Khalil's arrest has been criticized by groups such as the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the American Civil Liberties Union, the First Amendment Coalition, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Writers Against the War on Gaza; and individuals including Michael Thaddeus, Zohran Mamdani, Brad Lander, Ben Burgis, Katherine Franke, Jameel Jaffer, Charlie Pierce, and Ann Coulter.
Khalil's arrest received a statement of support from Mercedes Schlapp, who also said Rashida Talib should be deported along with Khalil, though Talib is a natural-born citizen of the United States from Detroit.
Rubio wants to revoke green card holders if they criticize Israel.
Jewish members of the Columbia University faculty protested against Khalil's arrest on the campus on March 10 and a number of Jewish groups indicated concern or opposition to his detention, including J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, IfNotNow, and Bend the Arc. These concerns were echoed by several Jewish individuals, including David Grossman, Marianne Hirsch, Jonathan Jacoby, Erwin Chemerinsky, Noah Feldman, and Jill Stein. More than one of the groups said that the Trump administration was using antisemitism as an excuse for an authoritarian agenda. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Orthodox Union, and Betar US celebrated the arrest, with the ADL stating that detention "illustrates [the Trump administration's] resolve by holding alleged perpetrators responsible for their actions" and that it hoped his arrest would deter other student activists.
Fourteen House Democrats wrote the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, calling Khalil's arrest and detention an "illegal abduction" and demanding his release. Other congressional Democrats spoke out individually, including senators Dick Durbin and Chris Murphy, and representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jerry Nadler, and Jamie Raskin. Attorney General of New York Letitia James said she was "extremely concerned about the arrest" and her office was "monitoring the situation".
The Trump administration defended the action, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing plans to revoke more people's visas or green cards.
Hochul and Adams declined to opine on the arrests, Adams complaining that the level of public support expressed for Khalil eclipsed the level of support he (Adams) received following his own arrest on bribery and wire fraud charges. United States Senator Chuck Schumer, in a post to X, denounced Khalil while simultaneously declaring the government was "violating the First Amendment protections we all enjoy and should drop their wrongheaded action".
After Khalil's arrest, demonstrations protesting his detention were held in New York City and an online petition calling for his release received nearly two million signatures. Other rallies were held at Federal Plaza in Chicago and at Stanford University.
Israel and its allies overplayed the use of antisemitism. From now on, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing Judaism or Islam, I will not hold my tongue when criticizing Israel, Jews, President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, members of Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, Zionism, colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, Christian nationalism and white supremacy.
Again, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing religious beliefs, there is no antisemitism when criticizing the Jews.
To clear up the AP's account of Oct. 7, the Israelis used the Hannibal Directive to massacre the settlers to prevent Hamas from taking IDF soliders. The IDF has used the weapons to kill settlers at a festival.
Hamas has been very clear on who they targeted. They targeted the IDF and the walls. They do not target civilians. Israel has exaggerated the way this went down.
They have used American weapons to kill settlers, doctors, humanitarian aid workers, UN peacekeepers and their own IDF soliders. Israel has killed Americans, British, German, Australian, Canadians and French citizens.
No investigations were carried out to why Israel targeted them.
Israel refuses to allow independent monitors into Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.
IDF soliders who refuse to carry out orders are often taken out by snipers.
The "hostages" were IDF soliders.
Israel has violated the ceasefire. They are planning on invading Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. They have stopped humanitarian aid as Ramadan begins. They want the U.S. to start a war with Iran.
The supporters of former president Joe Biden and former vice president Kamala Harris are playing on this "We tried to warn you" nonsense. How can you morally stand on principles of being a progressive and back Israel?
First and foremost, Americans have a right to vote for whomever they chose.
Second, Harris failed to win over voters. She stuck with former president Joe Biden on the economy, Israel, Ukraine, immigration and inflation. The former president failed to listen to voters and his base.
Trump and Schumer are Zionists.
The former president gave unilateral support and cover. We knew Trump would be worse. We demanded that Biden put pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel to stop killing and invading other countries.
That shows the "tone deafness" within the Democratic Party.
It is not Rep. Rashida Tlaib's (D-MI) fault for Biden and Harris' missteps. She warned them that Arab Americans did not like being ignored.
Those fucking hypocrites sat in silence as Israel is killing women and children.
They can fuck themselves.
Israel has killed Americans. No one was held accountable.
The killing of Rachel Corrie did not move George W. Bush to cut Israel loose.
The deaths of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, Tawfiq Abdel Jabbar, Mohammad Khdour, Omar Assad, Shireen Abu Akleh, Jacob Flickinger and Kamel Ahmad Jawad were never investigated by the U.S. Justice Department.
Mask off.
Resistance is not terrorism.
Occupation of oppressed people is not peace.
A two state solution is "separate but equal" and a de facto apartheid.
Telling other countries to take Palestinians is ethnic cleansing.
A sovereignty seizing land in a violent conflict is a war crime.
A violent attack on children throwing rocks at tanks is justified in the minds of those who support Israel.
Spitting and shoving Christians, Satanists, non Zionist Jews, Muslims and Hindus is considered a custom in Israel. How is this disgusting act justified?
The double standard in media coverage is the Israelis are hostages and the Palestinians are prisoners. Some of the Palestinians held in Israeli custody are children under the age of 14.
When Russia seized Ukrainian land and Crimea, the U.S. pushed for sanctions.
When Israel seized Lebanese and Syrian land, the U.S. recognized it as Israeli sovereignty. They have actively rejected sanctions imposed on Israel.
Hamas stated the reasons for the attack on occupation forces. It has nothing to do with the Jewish religion or Iran.
The IDF has the weapons to destroy everything. All on the American taxpayer, Israel has killed civilians, their own citizens and the status quo.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and the U.S. must end its aid. Our taxpayer money should not help Israel any further.
Israel is the red line. If any lawmaker, entertainer, athlete or social media influncer backs the apartheid ethnostate, they will face a boycott.
Regardless of political affiliation, if you are supporting Israel, you are not getting donations or a vote from me.
I will hold President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance accountable.
The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police.
Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to", "illegal immigrants" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to focus on ending gun violence, lowering costs, improving healthcare and building relationships with other nations. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-Semitic or in support of terrorism.
We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and legislators avoid influence from lobbyists.
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