Re: Deportation of Khalil

On 2025-04-13 2:19 PM, Rhino 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 

Oops. That paragraph was *supposed* to say:
If Hamas had a shred of honesty, they would have ensured that the health
ministry in Gaza - which is run by Hamas - wouldn't have exaggerated death tolls and would distinguish between dead fighters and dead civilians. But they didn't.

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.
 

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.
 Mahmoud Khalil has gone beyond just speech, as Douglas Murray points out in this video:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWjWAiAIG4 [8 minutes]
 (Be patient, he gets there....)
 

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Rhino