Regardless of that where anyone stands on the issue of Israel and Palestine, we should all be deeply disturbed by the detention of former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil.
Mahmood Khalil was arrested and detained
Mahmud Khalil is fighting deportation while being held at the US immigration and customs enforcement facility in Louisiana.
Last Saturday night, a Palestinian Mahmoud Khalil, who recently graduated from Columbia University, was returning home with his pregnant wife when the Department of Homeland Security Agents Took it in detainedAllegedly without any reason or warrants.
His wife immediately. He called a lawyer, who demanded that the agents email him a copy of the warrant. Agents hung on Mahmood’s lawyer, According to his wifeAnd took it into custody.
Since then it has been transferred to AN Ice detection facility in LouisianaA place that has nothing to do with it, hundreds of miles away from its family and auxiliary system, and in a legal jurisdiction that is more likely to be in favor of the government. President Donald Trump has already taken personal credit Mahmud’s detention, and if his administration succeeds in trying to deport him, it will be at the expense of every person’s first amendment on the American soil.
Regardless of where someone stands on the issue of Israel and Palestine, we should all be deeply intimidated by this.
As a former student administrator, I have long supported students, including Mahmud in their campaign Distribution of Columbia from companies Take advantage of Israeli human rights violations of Palestinians. He and the places we have shared and the places we have shared has always been clear to me that Mahmud is a man who is a brave and gentle temperament, with strong principles, humility and deep love for our people and the community.
Her classmate relied on her that she’s a Lead negotiators During the Gaza Solidarity camp last spring, they also saw these features.
Trump’s targeting Mahmud Khalil is an authoritarian force
Clearly, the government has not accused Mahmud of committing any crime, and instead requested an unclear clause of immigration law that claims – without any evidence – Mahmud will be present in the United States. Negative results of foreign policy.
The Trump administration claims that they were detained because they led it “Activities are associated with Hamas“Which is a designated terrorist organization in the United States, this is a very vague accusation that can apply to any of the thousands of Americans who treated the Israeli war in Gaza or its Palestinians.
Depending on the racist trumps presenting Arab men as a threat to national security, President Trump has detained and defamed Mahmud and denied his appropriate action. Any attempt that denies the judiciary to its check and balance should be considered as the occupation of authoritarian power.
I am convinced that Mahmud was targeted by Trump because he was an important negotiator and prominent student administrator with the university administration.
He demanded that the school in which he plays the tuition, he develops weapons, technology and companies to stop investing in the companies that have allowed Israel to establish Israel. A decade long colorful system Perform his brutal war in his homeland and against Gaza, which Human rights groups And other experts What is the conclusion that is a genocide.
Mahmud’s family was expelled from his house and forced to flee Syria, since then there is a country Also encountered the horrors of war.
If he and his family could stay in Palestine in Palestine, Mahmud would have been forced to live under Israeli brutal military rule and would probably have joined it. Thousands of Palestinians imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces Without charge or trial.
The persecution he had avoided by the tragedy of exile from his home has found them in Trump’s Kangaro immigration courts. At the behest of Israel’s right -wing supporters, who has been released, harassed and won the ear, at the behest of Israel’s right -wing supporters, he has been detained here without any charge in the United States. President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Immigration courts are misuse of power. Trump takes it to a new level.
In the last 17 months, Mahmud has been forced to see the Israeli army Bombing on its people in Gaza In their homes, mosques, churches, schools and hospitals.
Like the rest of us, he has also seen pictures of children’s chard and disconnected bodies, listened to men, women and children. DeliberateFor, for, for,. Torture and sexual violence They were targeted in Israeli prisons, Israel besieged and saw Target human aid trucksForcing families living in tents to break their Ramadan with grass and dirty water.
Mahmud has been forced to force our elected officials to endure the excuse to end these crimes against humanity, crimes that the International Court of Justice Have been condemned And is the international criminal court Issued arrest warrants For.
Immigration courts and detention centers, for decades, have been misusing the administrative power. Targeting Mahmud, Trump is now taking this misuse of power to a whole new level and is exemplifying the lives of Palestinians and speakers for human rights.
When I first learned about Mahmud’s detention, many things that got stuck in my mind 1971 Open letter In which author James Baldwin explained that the ethics of his time was the ethical of his time to liberate the educational and political activist Angela Davis: “Because if they take you in the morning, they will come for us that night.”
Now we face another moral and constitutional mandatory because they have taken our friend Mahmud, and Trump has threatened that he is just “.First of all“To come.
We cannot make a dangerous mistake to think that citizens are safe from us. If we allow the Trump administration to violate the rights of Mahmud’s first amendment, he will also violate us by threatening exile, which will also violate the risk of imprisonment to disagree with any of Trump’s views.
Palestine has become a Limitus to justify our entire constitution. We are all obliged to defend the freedoms that we get from it. The fighting has now begun with the demand for the independence of Mahmud Khalil. Because if we fail to protect our neighbors at night, who will we turn to us when they come to us in the morning?
Darliza Alela is a former student of Columbia University of Columbia University where she was an active member of students for justice in Palestine and laid the foundation of a student campaign to divide Colombia from Israeli colorful companies to divide Colombia. She is a doctorate candidate at Sociology at City University, New York City, Graduate Center. His doctorate research reviews the deportation, race and national security policy.
