The Unredacted

The Unredacted examines the stories institutions don't want told and the patterns corporate media won't connect.

[The Unredacted @theunredacted]

NEW YORK AG SHUTS DOWN JEWISH DEFENSE GROUP WHILE VIOLENT PRO-HAMAS MOBS ROAM FREE

https://t.co/u9TXNFDlxh

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

If you’ve followed my work, you already know the story — Samidoun has been active on college campuses, promotes violent resistance, and was officially designated a terrorist organization last year.

But for those unfamiliar, this post and the next will walk through how they tell their story — from their own biased perspective.

Moderator Suzanne Adely introduced Kris Hermes, co-chair of the Mass Defense Committee of the National Lawyers Guild, to explain what he called a key example of U.S. “repression” against the pro-Palestinian movement.

“We thought it was appropriate to ground today’s discussion with an example of how the U.S. government has targeted the North American-based organization of Samidoun to test the waters of repression.”

Hermes recounted the October 15, 2024 decision by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to designate Samidoun:

“The U.S. Treasury Department... designated Samidoun a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization.”

He dismissed that designation entirely, claiming instead that Samidoun has “no ties to any so-called designated terrorists” and portrayed the group as peaceful advocates for prisoners.

“Samidoun... has been supporting Palestinian prisoners in their fight for freedom since the 2011 hunger strike... and has no ties to any so-called designated terrorists.”

He cast the U.S. action as a political maneuver designed to suppress activism:

“Samidoun was not a threat to the U.S. government in any way, but the designation was arguably used as a test... to determine how our movements would react... [and] to go after U.S. activists.”

Hermes framed Samidoun’s work as essential to Palestinian liberation, even as governments in both the U.S. and Canada coordinated in labeling it a terrorist-affiliated organization due to its ties to the PFLP, a group responsible for decades of deadly attacks.

What isn’t disclosed: Charlotte Kates, a leading figure at Samidoun, also works for the National Lawyers Guild’s International Committee. (And 85% sure I have seen Kates and Adely on a call together)

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

I remember when everybody rubbished the 12 year old girls at Dundee who tried to defend themselves with an axe.

A Bulgarian man was just found guilty of making sexual comments towards them and assaulting one of them.

A lot of people need to apologise

[Nicki Neily @nickineily]

A new report from @jinsadc highlights that Qatar’s billion-dollar ties with U.S. universities go beyond philanthropy, citing access to research, governance, and programming at elite schools.

Foreign influence should not have access to America's higher education.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Melissa Hortman was the ONLY Democrat Rep to vote against taxpayer funded healthcare for illegals in Minnesota.

She was the deciding vote.

This was the last vote she cast before she was kiIIed.

Never forget.

[The Unredacted @theunredacted]

The Results

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https://t.co/CS7zr8aFYc

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What the hell do the Knicks have to do with Palestine?

Why are these people DESTROYING TAXI CABS while waving this flag over a basketball game?

This DSA movement has some truly insane people in it.

[The Unredacted @theunredacted]

Zohran Mamdani put his DSA field operation on the city payroll, gave it the official channels to every community’s press and clergy, and aimed it at June 23.

The receipts are public 🧾

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[The Unredacted @theunredacted]

They named it the Office of Mass Engagement. The honest name is the Office of Mass Persuasion. The Soviet original at least never sent the marks an invoice.

Now, have you heard of the Red Rabbits initiative?

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Tascha Van Auken runs the operation. On January 2, his first business day in office, Mamdani signed an executive order creating the Office of Mass Engagement and installed Van Auken the DSA organizer who built his campaign field machine as commissioner.

The machine she built: 100,000 volunteers, 3 million doors, 4.5 million calls. City Hall promised she would bring “the same urgency, discipline, and principles” to government.

Same operation. Different letterhead. Taxpayers now cover the rent.

The office costs $53 million a year. This is not an engagement office. It is a political machine with a city seal.

[The Unredacted @theunredacted]

Mamdani confirmed the arrangement himself. In a video posted to JFREJ’s Instagram, he said his signature free bus policy “was not my idea.” It came from a meeting with DSA-aligned transit advocate Alicia Singham Goodwin. The ideas come from the organization. The officeholders deliver them.

Several slate candidates are not running for open seats. They are running to remove sitting Democrats whose offense is insufficient compliance. Every winner becomes another terminal of the machine that holds City Hall, runs the $53 million engagement office, and controls the official pipeline to every community’s media and clergy. Our full network map of the Mamdani administration’s DSA appointees is here:

https://t.co/mGNO7oLphv

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

🚨 Mamdani Worker Justice Transition Pick Says South Asians “Will Always Be Working Class,” Mocks Self-Care for Socialist Organizers, and Sneers at NYPD Families as Future “Killers”

Kazi Fouzia, a self-described “revolutionary organizer,” is the Director of Organizing at the immigrant-rights nonprofit DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving). She now sits on Zohran Mamdani’s transition committee for Worker Justice, which is odd given some of her stated views, like this sweeping claim about South Asian Americans and immigrants in the U.S.

“People don’t realize, even though Social Security work permit, even their green card, even their citizenship, we don’t have capacity to do higher class job here. We always will be the working class and we have to do our fight.”

You can hear the usual far-left calling cards in these clips, from intersectional work to fighting capitalists, but what stood out to me most was her rejection of “self-care” and boundaries as an organizer:

“I’m very old school socialist kind of person. So as an organizer, I never set any boundary.”

Lastly, and arguably most offensive, she belittles South Asian families who feel proud when their children become NYPD officers, treating that path as inherently shameful.

“What you’re proud for? You would really will become a killer one day or brutality beat our people.”

If this is what “Worker Justice” sounds like, it is less about helping working people and more about policing what they are allowed to aspire to. That kind of determinism is deeply un-American.

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

Mahmoud Khalil explains his $20 million lawsuit against the Trump administration, citing false imprisonment and violations of his constitutional rights during his 104-day ICE detention in 2025.

“It’s only about accountability, Dean… Nothing is going to make up for the 104 days I was away from Noor, from missing the birth of my son.”

Khalil was detained despite holding a green card, but his immigration history includes multiple violations, including omitting required information on immigration forms and participating in campus protests that broke university rules and local laws—including the illegal occupation of Barnard Library. These factors led ICE to initiate removal proceedings under a Cold War-era clause allowing deportation if a person is deemed harmful to U.S. foreign policy.

Now, Khalil accuses the government of “malicious prosecution,” “warrantless arrest,” and defying the Constitution.

Notably, Khalil’s lawsuit comes at the same time Columbia University agreed to a settlement with the Department of Education over civil rights violations, including its failure to protect Jewish students. While Columbia pays for its failure to uphold federal law, Khali who helped lead illegal protests on campus is suing the federal government for enforcing it.

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

It’s also worth remembering that Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) has published multiple unhinged statements—like this one, co-signed with CU Club Bangla, the university’s Bengali student association, calling for “the total eradication of Western Civilization.”

As @tal_fortgang put it: “Would it kill the media to read CUAD’s Substack? It’s all there.”

Substack Link: https://t.co/OnOnnXbYFH

[The Unredacted @theunredacted]

Zohran Mamdani put his DSA field operation on the city payroll, gave it the official channels to every community’s press and clergy, and aimed it at June 23.

The receipts are public 🧾

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