Arrested for political protests the president dislikes
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As Jewish Voice for Peace protestors occupy Trump Tower demanding the release of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, Jacobin Magazine sets the enormity of the affair in context.
“No one is even pretending that Khalil is being targeted for any reason other than the politics of the protests he participated in,” writes Ben Burgis.
“Khalil’s arrest should be a wake-up call for those leftists and progressives who have forgotten why free speech is such a historically important left principle.”
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This article was originally published by Jacobin on Thu 13 Mar 2025. Read the original here.
Free Speech Means Free Mahmoud Khalil
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest is a cut-and-dry free speech issue that makes two things clear. First, the Right was always disingenuous when it claimed to care about free speech. Second, the Left should never have ceded the issue.
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