“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.”
“I’m not happy with Israel,” Trump told reporters, after Israeli fire threatened a fragile ceasefire with Iran. “They don’t know what the fuck they’re doing,” the president continued, referring to both of the countries.
Donald Trump has set a two-week deadline to decide whether to enter Israel’s war on Iran. He is facing strong pressure both for and against attacking. If he does, it will be the most catastrophic U.S. foreign policy decision since Iraq 20 years ago.
Trump has threatened to join Israel’s war on Iran, but the American people want no part of it.
The attack on Iran is just the latest crime in the Israeli regime’s path of destruction across the Middle East. Its Western-backed impunity has become a global threat.
Amid Israel’s continued attacks on Iran, U.S. lawmakers from across the political spectrum are pushing efforts to curb Donald Trump’s war powers as U.S. involvement in the war threatens to fracture Trump’s political coalition.
The long-dreaded war in the Persian Gulf between a U.S.-backed Israel and Iran appears imminent, and it is all based on a manufactured crisis aimed at undermining the Iran nuclear negotiations.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot detain or deport Mahmoud Khalil based on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s determination, in a decision hailed by his legal team as “a huge win.”
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on Addameer, a leading Palestinian prisoner rights group, and five other charities for alleged links to Palestinian political factions deemed by the U.S. and Israel as “terrorist organizations.”
Israel’s attacks on the Madleen aid mission to Gaza and the repression of the anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles represent the same imperial logic: any challenge to injustice will be met with state violence.