This weekend, the Trump administration abducted and disappeared Palestinian Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil for protesting the Israeli military’s genocidal assault on his people.
This attack, which most acutely targets Palestinian students and advocates for Palestinian rights, also enables Trump’s authoritarian consolidation of power against his political opponents.
This attack, which most acutely targets Palestinian students and advocates for Palestinian rights, also enables Trump’s authoritarian consolidation of power against his political opponents.
It is utterly despicable that the Trump admin is carrying out this authoritarian lurch under the guise of fighting for Jewish safety.
Within our Jewish communities, we must be clear with ourselves: not only does destroying higher education & abducting students for political speech not keep Jews safe, it actively endangers us.
Laying waste to our democracy & people’s lives in the name of protecting Jews will inevitably foster resentment of us & only grow the antisemitic threats we face.
Within our Jewish communities, we must be clear with ourselves: not only does destroying higher education & abducting students for political speech not keep Jews safe, it actively endangers us.
Laying waste to our democracy & people’s lives in the name of protecting Jews will inevitably foster resentment of us & only grow the antisemitic threats we face.
This is an all hands on deck moment.
If we do not all strongly oppose this dystopian crackdown on freedom of expression, directed by a government with many neo-Nazi ties and members, any of Trump’s political opponents could be its next victims: advocates for reproductive justice, climate action, trans rights, immigrant rights, and other progressive causes.
If we do not all strongly oppose this dystopian crackdown on freedom of expression, directed by a government with many neo-Nazi ties and members, any of Trump’s political opponents could be its next victims: advocates for reproductive justice, climate action, trans rights, immigrant rights, and other progressive causes.
We know that it is central to the Trump admin’s goals for Project 2025 to destroy any opposition to their fascist, white supremacist worldview.
Revoking visas or green cards of students for political speech & threatening universities with funding cuts unless they stop educating about racism are attempts at policing thought.
Revoking visas or green cards of students for political speech & threatening universities with funding cuts unless they stop educating about racism are attempts at policing thought.
If Trump and his neo-Nazi allies get away with this, there is nothing protecting citizens, including those born here, from meeting the same fate.
The Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther” strategy explicitly outlines a plan to start crushing Trump’s political opponents by attacking the Palestinian rights movement, but it makes clear that they won’t stop there.
The Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther” strategy explicitly outlines a plan to start crushing Trump’s political opponents by attacking the Palestinian rights movement, but it makes clear that they won’t stop there.
Deportations, surveillance, & repression do not make Jews safer.
Jews will only find safety by joining together with all who are targeted by the Trump/Musk agenda to resist it. Now is the time to marshal our courage, stand strong, link arms, & don’t let go. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
Jews will only find safety by joining together with all who are targeted by the Trump/Musk agenda to resist it. Now is the time to marshal our courage, stand strong, link arms, & don’t let go. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
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