Mona Eltahawy Instagram – Watch and listen
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#repost @israelismfilm • “Columbia Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj demands Mahmoud Khalil be released immediately at her speech in front of a NYC Court today:
“How did we get to the point where Mahmoud Khalil, a mild mannered and thoughtful Palestinian political activist, a legal permanent resident of the US who has not been charged, let alone convicted of a crime, can be picked up outside his home and shipped to a Louisiana detention center? That the Secretary of State and the President can name him as the first of many who will be rounded up and deported for what is in fact political descent? This is a witch hunt of an order we have not seen since the McCarthy era. Then the archetypal threat to America was the allegedly Communist Jew. Now it is the allegedly antisemitic Palestinian.
“Stop demonizing student activists who are demonstrating to save Palestinians in Gaza in the West Bank from ethnic cleansing and total annihilation.
“Stop replicating the crimes of McCarthyism and here, I mean, not just the criminalization of certain forms of political speech. More fundamentally, I mean, stop replicating the crime of demonizing an entire group of people as dangerous as a threat, as abhorrent. Even then it was Jews. Now it’s Palestinians. Free Mahmoud now, and stop and the witch hunt against other students.”
Please listen to Professor Abu El-Haj’s powerful and important words.
FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL NOW” | Posted on 13/Mar/2025 22:08:46
