Re: Deportation of Khalil

On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:19:59 -0400, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
 

On 2025-04-12 11:29 PM, Robin Miller wrote:

Adam H. Kerman wrote:
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I despise Khalil. He's espousing anti-Western and anti-Israeli values and
is acting, effectively, as a spokesman for Hamas, It's a
misrepresentation to call him "pro Palestinian" as taking the Hamas side
is anti-Palestinian.

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These are all lies. Khalil's position is to oppose Israel's genocide in
Gaza, which is the only moral position to take. Numerous Jewish groups
have taken the same position; Jewish groups have often led campus
protests. Anyone who supports Israel in its genocide is siding with
ideological descendants of Nazis.
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If Hamas had taken the honourable - and legally required - approach to
war, none of this "genocide" would have happened. They would have put
their fighters in uniform and fought away from civilian areas instead of
deliberately hiding among the civilian population and civilian
infrastructure. But they didn't.
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If Hamas cared about the citizens they represent, they would have let
them shelter in the extensive tunnel network that they built under Gaza,
rather than forbidding them to do so because the tunnels were reserved
for fighters and rockets. But they didn't.
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If Hamas wanted to end the suffering and death, they would have given up
the hostages months ago and laid down their arms. But they didn't.
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If Hamas had a shred of honesty, they would have ensured that the health
ministry in Gaza - which is run by Hamas - wouldn't be exaggerated and
would distinguish between dead fighters and dead civilians. But they
didn't.
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The government's position that a protestor at a university "would have
potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United
States" is preposterous on its face. Rubio's statement contained no
evidence for his assertion.
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More generally, the contention that people legally in the US can be
thrown out of the country--or legally harmed in any way--for taking a
political position different from that of the government effectively
nullifies the First Amendment.
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Those two paragraphs are essentially what Adam are saying.
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The more extreme that Israel becomes, the more extreme becomes the
repression by governments allied to Israel--and the fanaticism of
Israel's supporters.
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Zionism is a genocidal political philosophy that must be eradicated.
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BTR1701 responded to that point already and I have nothing to add to his
response.
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Mahmoud Khalil has gone beyond just speech, as Douglas Murray points out
in this video:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWjWAiAIG4 [8 minutes]
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(Be patient, he gets there....)

 24yrs ago we all watched as Islamic terrorists flew planes into buildings on
American soil.   Fast forward to today and we have a lot of progressive
Democrats who praise people who share the same ideology as those terrorists.
Some like "the squad" even get elected to Congress.