Interview: "We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is”
A former head of Doctors Without Borders speaks out after NYU canceled her Gaza presentation.
Some of her slides mentioned Trump's cuts to foreign aid & the deaths of humanitarian workers in Gaza, slides which NYU said could be viewed as “anti-governmental” & “antisemitic”.
Panel: "How dangerous are the tensions between the US & Iran?"
"Trump threatens to bomb Iran, while Tehran says it would respond."
Panel
Hassan Ahmadian, University of Tehran
Ali Vaez, International Crisis Group
Ellie Geranmayeh, Middle East and North Africa Programme
#iran #us #uspol #trump #us-iranrelations #usimperialism #autocracy #islamophobia .
Interview: "The Encampments”: New Film on Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests
Mahmoud Khalil, who was chosen by the university as a liaison between the administration & students, has since been detained by immigration enforcement.
“Columbia has gone to every extent to try to censor this movement" ~producer Munir Atalla
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/28/the_encampments_columbia_university_documentary
#trump #fascism #MahmoudKhalil #uspol #TheEncampments #columbia #racism #islamophobia .
Analysis: Betar is a far-right pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide.
Betar is working closely with Trump's administration, "preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported."
#betar #trump #fascism #genocide #uspol #studentprotests #deportation #racism #islamophobia .
Analysis: Betar is a far-right pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide.
Betar is working closely with Trump's administration, "preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported."
#betar #trump #fascism #genocide #uspol #studentprotests #deportation #racism #islamophobia .
Interview: "The Encampments”: New Film on Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests
Mahmoud Khalil, who was chosen by the university as a liaison between the administration & students, has since been detained by immigration enforcement.
“Columbia has gone to every extent to try to censor this movement" ~producer Munir Atalla
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/28/the_encampments_columbia_university_documentary
#trump #fascism #MahmoudKhalil #uspol #TheEncampments #columbia #racism #islamophobia .
Analysis: "How the ‘war on terror’ paved the way for student deportations in the US"
There are parallels between attempts to expel anti-genocide student protesters and Bush-era deportations.
#us #uspol #georgebush #trump #fascism #racism #islamophobia #waronterror .
Trump's fascist "catch and revoke" and deport list... so far.
A list of the people the US is trying to deport over their anti-genocide views:
https://aje.io/7xd759?update=3609246
Trump's list reportedly contains at least 300 names.
#fascism #trump #uspol #studentprotests #islamophobia #racism .
![Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of
Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts, the US, on March 26, 2025 [AP
Rhoto]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/255/988/605/461/902/original/a51516c601dd1065.jpg "Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of
Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts, the US, on March 26, 2025 [AP
Rhoto]")
At the risk of stating the obvious, it would be nice if media minions on my TV would spend any time at all analyzing Trump's fascist ICE kidnapping spree as part of a larger plan, with an eye on what the regime is actually trying to accomplish here. Maybe American media outlets are spooked by living in a country where it's increasingly illegal to admit racism exists, but it's not like it's impossible to do the legwork; even for corporate media. Take for example this piece in the international edition of The Guardian, pointing out that it's almost certainly not an accident all of DHS's targets for fascist ideological policing and deportation are people of color, even though a majority of the folks participating in campus anti-genocide protests the regime is claiming represent a threat to our national security, were white folks born in America.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/us-universities-students-israel-palestine-protests
‘A warning for students of color’: Ice agents are targeting certain protesters, say experts
"Now, at least five students and academics of color at US universities have been targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), as a part of the Trump administration’s ongoing push to punish noncitizens over their support of Palestine.
“What we’re seeing is the use of immigration law to go after visa holders, permanent lawful residents, [over] their speech,” said Samah Sisay, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). “He’s trying to suppress political speech that goes against what the administration wants.”
Despite white students, professors and academics also being heavily involved in pro-Palestine protests, people of color have disproportionately faced sudden arrests and threats of deportation or had their visas revoked.
“We’re just seeing the focus on very specific people,” said Sisay, referring to academics of color. “I think it really is to try to create a wedge in solidarity, the multiracial, multiethnic solidarity that’s been created in support of Palestinian human rights.” Ice’s actions, she said, have “set a warning for students of color at these universities who rely on scholarships and educational support to improve their lives or better the situations for their family.”
So look, maybe you don't need to be a genius to figure out why an openly white nationalist, Islamophobic, and deeply xenophobic Trump administration is starting its attempts to criminalize protest and dissent, with non-white academics, the overwhelming majority of whom are Muslim. These guys are fucking nazis, and that's the kinda shit nazis do; although I'll be honest with you, the next time I see a corporate media outlet explain the actions of the Pork Reich by directly saying "well they're fascists, obviously" it'll probably be the first.
The truth however, is that Stephen Miller, who is definitely running Trump's immigration policies and his fascist war to crush dissent, is the kinda crudely cunning fascist who absolutely "uses the whole cow." Sure the regime is stacked to the brim with raving white nationalists, but they're also clearly working to break the solidarity of the anti-genocide protest movement, while simultaneously targeting people Americans have already been taught to hate in order to shift the Overton Window far enough towards fascism to allow them to start black bagging and imprisoning *anyone* of *any* immigration status, who opposes the regime. It is irresponsible to simply repeat regime propaganda to justify illegally disappearing protestors, without helping your audience put these events in a larger context that would explain why it's important for all of us to oppose Trump's fascist repression of people many Americans don't care about and have been taught to dislike, if they don't want the regime's next assault on civil rights to strike closer to home.
Report: "ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge"
Trump "is deploying the rarely-used risk-to-foreign-policy immigration provision they used to detain Mahmoud Khalil to now target students across the country."
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east
#studentprotestors #ice #trump #deportation #uspol #racism #islamophobia #fascism .
Trump's fascist "catch and revoke" and deport list... so far.
A list of the people the US is trying to deport over their anti-genocide views:
https://aje.io/7xd759?update=3609246
Trump's list reportedly contains at least 300 names.
#fascism #trump #uspol #studentprotests #islamophobia #racism .
![Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of
Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts, the US, on March 26, 2025 [AP
Rhoto]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/248/698/170/774/448/original/b3988ab916af9d4b.jpg "Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of
Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts, the US, on March 26, 2025 [AP
Rhoto]")
Analysis: "How the ‘war on terror’ paved the way for student deportations in the US"
There are parallels between attempts to expel anti-genocide student protesters and Bush-era deportations.
#us #uspol #georgebush #trump #fascism #racism #islamophobia #waronterror .
Interview: "The Encampments”: New Film on Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests
Mahmoud Khalil, who was chosen by the university as a liaison between the administration & students, has since been detained by immigration enforcement.
“Columbia has gone to every extent to try to censor this movement" ~producer Munir Atalla
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/28/the_encampments_columbia_university_documentary
#trump #fascism #MahmoudKhalil #uspol #TheEncampments #columbia #racism #islamophobia .
Analysis: Betar is a far-right pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide.
Betar is working closely with Trump's administration, "preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported."
#betar #trump #fascism #genocide #uspol #studentprotests #deportation #racism #islamophobia .
Analysis: The “War on Terror” Comes Home in the Trump Era
"The egalization and uses of torture in the post-9/11 years, the fabricated decision to go to war in Iraq, the mass surveillance of Americans in that era, and so much more...
"set in place a grim template for the second Trump era."
https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/terror-comes-trump.html
#waronterror #uspol #fascism #racism #islamophobia #GazaGenocideNotWar #trump .
Analys8s: The “War on Terror” Comes Home in the Trump Era
"The egalization and uses of torture in the post-9/11 years, the fabricated decision to go to war in Iraq, the mass surveillance of Americans in that era, and so much more...
"set in place a grim template for the second Trump era."
https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/terror-comes-trump.html
#waronterror #uspol #fascism #racism #islamophobia #GazaGenocideNotWar #trump .
Analysis: Betar is a far-right pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide.
Betar is working closely with Trump's administration, "preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported."
#betar #trump #fascism #genocide #uspol #studentprotests #deportation #racism #islamophobia .
Interview: "The Encampments”: New Film on Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests
Mahmoud Khalil, who was chosen by the university as a liaison between the administration & students, has since been detained by immigration enforcement.
“Columbia has gone to every extent to try to censor this movement" ~producer Munir Atalla
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/28/the_encampments_columbia_university_documentary
#trump #fascism #MahmoudKhalil #uspol #TheEncampments #columbia #racism #islamophobia .
Analysis: "How the ‘war on terror’ paved the way for student deportations in the US"
There are parallels between attempts to expel anti-genocide student protesters and Bush-era deportations.
#us #uspol #georgebush #trump #fascism #racism #islamophobia #waronterror .
Trump's fascist "catch and revoke" and deport list... so far.
A list of the people the US is trying to deport over their anti-genocide views:
https://aje.io/7xd759?update=3609246
Trump's list reportedly contains at least 300 names.
#fascism #trump #uspol #studentprotests #islamophobia #racism .
