Mondoweiss interviews writer Carrie Zaremba about how the history of repression of social movements in the U.S. since the 1960s has led to the current attacks against the Palestine movement.
“The wave of repression that the Trump administration initiated with my detention was intended to silence the movement for Palestinian liberation,” Mahmoud Khalil told a rally outside Columbia shortly after his release. “But they completely failed.”
In a recent speech, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt compared Gaza protesters to ISIS and celebrated the Trump administration’s crackdown on universities.
The FBI visited U.S. journalist Ken Klippenstein’s home after he published the embassy shooting suspect’s so called manifesto. The intimidation of the journalist is part of the wider Trump crackdown on speech and the pro-Palestine movement.
Two students detained by the Trump administration over their Palestine activism are out on bail as courts continue to rule against the White House.
Last Friday, the White House abruptly reversed course and restored the visas for hundreds of foreign students. It’s one sign the resistance to the Trump administration is working.
On the same day ICE posted a social media graphic saying it is working to keep “illegal” ideas out of the US, a Louisiana immigration judge ruled the Trump administration could deport Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil for opposing the Gaza genocide.
“Rather than silence dissent, the government’s actions have only emboldened voices demanding that basic rights be respected here, in Palestine, and beyond,” says CUNY CLEAR attorney Mudassar Toppa.
Columbia University is getting most of the attention, but the Trump administration is targeting universities across the nation over Palestine activism. So far, universities are complying.
Welcome to Power & Pushback, Mondoweiss’s new newsletter tracking the rise and repression of the Palestine movement.