Under intl'law, persecuting those who oppose Apartheid constitutes Apartheid itself. As we may be confronted with a case of global Apartheid, defending the defender is a global civic duty.
Mahmoud Khalil isn’t an illegal alien.
He isn’t a terrorist.
He’s a Columbia graduate student and a legal U.S. resident. He's a husband. And his wife, a US Citizen—8 months pregnant—has no idea where he is.
The Department of Homeland Security snatched him off campus, disappeared him without a trace. No charges. No trial. Just gone.
This is how authoritarian regimes operate.
It's what happens when the First Amendment only applies to the “right” kind of people—it's only a trial balloon for a broader crackdown on speech.
If they can do it to Khalil, they can do it to you.
First, they come for the speech of legal immigrants.
If we don't speak up, do you know what comes next?
Trump on Canada: "I spoke to Governor Trudeau ... they don't have military protection, and you take a look at what's going on out there ... people are in danger ... they need our protection."
This is a literal threat. What a psycho nutbag.
BBC News reporting that Israel has cut off electricity supplies from 2m people in order to put pressure on Hamas.
Thats literally the definition of collective punishment. Its a violation of intl law and a war crime. So why does BBC News describe the act but refuse to name it?
“I just don’t understand why Rachel Reeves and the senior team have said we’re not going to ever use these levers of taxing people appropriately.” Wealth tax is essential to ensuring growth for the UK
This is Gary Stevenson.
• The best trader in the world
• Made $300M+ by trading for Citi Bank
• Humiliated Pierce Morgan in an interview
He said "Newer generations will never own a home because of wealth inequality"
Here's his story & 5 of his biggest prediction🧵:
It's just horrific. I warn you, this is utterly barbaric. I honestly can't believe that the EU, the United States, and the United Kingdom are okay with this. What have we become?
I would have liked to query Keir Starmer at last night's meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party about the impact of his proposed cuts to welfare.
Unfortunately I and other colleagues were told the meeting was full.
Keen on dissent in other countries. Not so much here.
I need westerners to understand that we've moved far beyond the point where Israel is only a threat to people in the middle east. Israel and its western backers are actively demolishing civil rights here in the west to silence people. We're seeing new stories like this every day.
When I said that Zionists literally say “all Palestinians are terrorists” all the time… this was two weeks ago on the steps of Victorian Parliament House.
Zionists are also actively recruiting for fresh IDF soldiers, in addition to the numerous existing Israeli-Australian soldiers. To pretend that animus against Zionists is simply because some are Jewish is entirely ridiculous. It’s because they’re engaged in genocide and apartheid
This duplicitous, disingenuous garbage posits that Zionists can never do harm or be accused of such so long as they are also Jewish. Meanwhile these Zionists getting are actively involved in defending crimes against humanity, and in funding the brutal apartheid state.
Zionism is a political ideology that demands the establishment of the Israeli state over the bodies of Palestinians, it is an explicitly colonial project and Zionists are Christian, Jews, and non-believers alike. They are not a protected class and never will be.
“It is believed to be the first time that potential political speech has been deemed a criminal offence” —this is an obvious test case for the new hate speech laws, and an equally obvious sign of how police will use them: to target Palestinians and stifle dissent against genocide