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Michael Roth: "Acc. to DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, #Khalil was arrested “in support of Trump’s EO prohibiting Antisemitism. How in the world can this be grounds for an arrest? if we don’t defend the right to protest, how will we defend the freedom to teach & learn, the freedom to pursue research? If we just defend the speech or activities we like, on what basis do we resist authoritarianism?" This "prohibition" against anti-Semitism is anti-semitic.
https://slate.com/life/2025/03/mahmoud-khalil-trump-columbia-student-ice-green-card.html
@CindyWeinstein really important that this piece is written by someone with a Jewish name. I have no idea what his beliefs are, but some people will take more notice of him than of someone with an Arab name.
Add me to the list of Jews who think this is utter bullshit, and a violation of the rule of law.
Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan, has been valiantly forthright in calling for universities to refuse neutrality because neutrality is ultimately complicity.
@CindyWeinstein he was arrested for anti-semitism just like Canada was clocked with tariffs for Fentanyl. Not to complain, but Bush should have been impeached in 2007 for lying about Saddam when trying to the PNAC war.
@CindyWeinstein Prohibiting antisemitism is just another way of scapegoating Jews, like evangelical ‘philosemitism’ is actually antisemitic.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me