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- academia@mander.xyz
On Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge in New York’s Northern District heard opening arguments in the case of Momodou Taal v. Trump. Neither party was present in the courtroom—in large part because Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has been trying to find Taal for days, reportedly staking out his home and entering his university’s campus.
Taal, a British-Gambian doctoral student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, sued the administration on February 15 to challenge Trump’s executive orders curtailing free speech and seeking to deport pro-Palestinian activists, which have been paired with a wave of attacks by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers—in some cases masked and hooded—on graduate and undergraduate students.
Well that isn’t the issue, it’s that anything which isn’t 100% in favor of the Israeli state is being equated with antisemitism.
I’m saying that it doesn’t matter at all what the content of the speech was. Free speech is free speech. No government censorship or reprisals should be tolerated.
even if they were saying that they hate jews, and being actually anti-semitic, it is still perfectly legal and should not be grounds for deportation, regardless.