Rumeysa Ozturk’s supporters turned out Wednesday to denounce ICE’s expanding dragnet against pro-Palestine foreign students.
Thousands Protest ICE Abduction of Tufts Student
Category: Civil Rights
Chris Hedges: Surrendering to Authoritarianism
Elite universities cowering before Trump’s crackdown on free speech continue their history of supporting plutocracy, delivering us into the arms of fascism.
CODEPINK Responds to US Senate McCarthy-Style Attack
“We must push back” — Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright takes on AIPAC-funded Tom Cotton, charging him with reckless libel.
UK’s Secret Meeting With Top Israeli Arms Firm
John McEvoy reports on the government’s crackdown on the anti-genocide group Palestine Action, which carries out direct actions in the U.K. against Elbit Systems and other suppliers of weapons to Israel.
Palestinian Rights Are Human Rights
The arbitrary arrests and due-process violations taking place in the U.S. are what Palestinians have known for eight decades under Israeli military occupation, writes M. Reza Behnam.
The Chris Hedges Report: America’s Constitutional Crisis
“An abusive exercise of power accompanied by humiliation” —Katherine Franke, former law professor at Columbia, on the university’s handling of Mahmoud Khalil, for whom she served as disciplinary adviser.
Perilous Times for Freedom in the US
The U.S. government, in its zealous enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws, has become lawless, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
‘I Am a Political Prisoner’
“My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech,” Mahmoud Khalil writes in his letter from ICE detention.
Craig Murray: Genocidal Western ‘Democracy’
Israel’s U.S.-supported massacres of Palestinians, Trump’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil and the C.I.A. spying on Julian Assange all tie together.
Patrick Lawrence: Season of the Sophists
Trump’s disrespect for the law and courts is not the “only question” raised by the disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil. There are several others, from long before Jan. 20.