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They support the only entity left to fight for their own country against textbook colonialists? Shocked.
You can't call for murdering people - or you get sent home. If burning babies alive and gangraping corpses is your "resistance" then maybe you should let the "colonialists" win.
Mahdawi allegedly supports Hamas. Hamas is officially designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the State Departmemt. This designation means that providing material support to Hamas is a federal crime under US law. Green card holders or anyone in the US can face serious legal and immigration consequences for any form of support or affiliation with Hamas.
Combined with the successful efforts to make it illegal to boycott Israeli products or companies, it's a grim situation.
Wow! that 1st amendment doesn't really work anymore. When I lived in the US on a green card (for 20 years) I was leary about political activity, there were never any obvious rules against it, and I was in this "taxation without representation" state so had to find outlets other than voting in order to have a say about how my taxes were spent (I'm from NZ where people with green card equivalents are very much allowed…
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Expressing support for groups who have taken such actions is not calling for terrorism -- almost every state in the world has engaged in terrorism. Plausibly the CIA's (recent) use of torture prisons and kiddnapping was in large part about terror for political ends. Yet one can express support for the US, and indeed, the CIA in other actions (eg., non-terror actions against military targets).
In very many cases today it seems "terrorism" is a political accusation that is used to suppress political expression and as a way around free speech and freedom of assembly laws. It is, I suppose, especially effective when acts of terrorism have recently been committed.
The state, in having the prerogative to decide who counts as a terrorist and therefore what kinds of speech count as "support for terrorism" thereby basically grants itself universal licence to suppress any kind of speech it dislikes.
In the case of israel/hamas, since gaza has been flattened by military bombardment and has no effective capability to resit or mount any opposition to israel -- speech in support of israel's enemies is particularly powerless. There's bascially nothing anyone can do, let alone as a student. So even to care, at all, what students in universities are saying shows this cannot plausibly be about the actual actions of hamas.
The most charitable interpretation of why this is happening is that pro-israeli students and civil society groups (perhaps often leftwing) are engaged in a moral panic about their peers who have turned against israel. And higher-ups in power are responding to this moral panic. The backfire effects from this on US society will be enormous --- lots of people will be asking, "why is the US state engaged in violent actions against students for the sake of another country who is in an extremely powerful position?". Knowing US citizens, I think this will rub a lot of people the wrong way, in the end.
With this guy, I can find no fault. If you watch his 60 Minutes interview, it seems heartfelt and authentic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA Plus, if he was born Palestinian and is now a Buddhist, that means that he willingly chose to endure the risk of getting killed as an apostate.
Something must be done.
Wow! that 1st amendment doesn't really work anymore. When I lived in the US on a green card (for 20 years) I was leary about political activity, there were never any obvious rules against it, and I was in this "taxation without representation" state so had to find outlets other than voting in order to have a say about how my taxes were spent (I'm from NZ where people with green card equivalents are very much allowed…
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Um, no. Watch this please. This is the same guy you're talking about. You won't be able to pull a "these people" after watching this.
> The petition describes him as a committed Buddhist who believes in "non-violence and empathy as a central tenet of his religion."
He's openly Buddhist, which means he is willingly enduring the risk of getting killed for being an apostate of Islam (a religion that I am openly a critic of, by the way).
This still sound like the "these people" you're unquestioningly grouping everyone into?
Do better next time.
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They support the only entity left to fight for their own country against textbook colonialists? Shocked.
You can't call for murdering people - or you get sent home. If burning babies alive and gangraping corpses is your "resistance" then maybe you should let the "colonialists" win.
With this guy, I can find no fault. If you watch his 60 Minutes interview, it seems heartfelt and authentic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA Plus, if he was born Palestinian and is now a Buddhist, that means that he willingly chose to endure the risk of getting killed as an apostate of Islam.
Something must be done... at least in his case.
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He allegedly supports Hamas? Is that in the article somewhere? It seems to me people are simply making things up to justify what seems pretty unjustifiable.
“ Khalil is not a citizen, and as such his permanent residency is based upon continuously meeting the government's definition of possessing "good moral character" https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1j9ata1/comme... Another https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/us-jud... “ That form asks: “Have you ever, or do you intend, to provide financial assistance or other support to terrorists or ter…
Mahdawi was actually interviewed by 60 Minutes a year ago. This is hardly a Mahmoud Khalil clone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA
As hackers, what can we do to work against the genocide, unconstitutional arrests, Zionist expansionism, Israeli control of western politics, etc?
Seriously though, the Jewish control of the world (now Israeli/Zionist so you don't sound like an antisemite) is one of the most tired antiemetic tropes.
Also: Zionist expansionism is a ridiculous term. You do understand that Israel is tiny and has given lands to Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Egypt for peace. Open the map and try to locate Israel on the map, it's a speck around a sea of huge countries. Even if Zionist expansionism was a thing, and Israel doubled in size it would still be tiny.
The other claims in your post are also weak, and I'd encourage you to learn more about the conflict from different perspectives. This is obviously a loaded topic and both sides are trying to control the narrative, but I believe you've been getting a very specific set information and haven't been exposed to the other side.
Wow! that 1st amendment doesn't really work anymore. When I lived in the US on a green card (for 20 years) I was leary about political activity, there were never any obvious rules against it, and I was in this "taxation without representation" state so had to find outlets other than voting in order to have a say about how my taxes were spent (I'm from NZ where people with green card equivalents are very much allowed…
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