There is an old saying regarding dangerous behavior: everything is fun and games until someone is hurt. One can say the same thing about Fascism The deprivation, especially when it comes to distinguished individuals in the United States, wished – almost this point – warnings about the height of fascism in their country as imaginary thinking.
But it seems increasingly difficult to describe what is happening in American policy in 2025 through fascist glasses that cannot be Head of the nation LamentationUsing a speech similar to the offspring, that immigrants “poison the blood of the country”-especially since the federal government brutally cracking on the immigrants through the legalized cancellation and political motives for visas and deportation. There is no more clear place than targeting international students who participated in the protests of the Israeli -Palestinian conflict in Gaza.
This issue hit me home, after many media outlets Reports A student is a student at Columbia University, Mohsen Mahdawi“He was arrested by immigration officials, where he attended an interview as part of his request for American citizenship.” Maahdawi holds a green card as a legal resident of the United States, and was in the final stages of the legal process to obtain citizenship. He is also legally protected by the first amendment, such as every citizen or other legal resident, when it comes to expressing his views in the Israeli -Palestinian conflict (or anything else to a large extent), whether this administration loves what he says or not.
Mahdawi’s lawyer Declare His client has been arrested “in direct revenge for his edema on behalf of the Palestinians and because of his identity as a Palestinian.” This arrest is one of the many (at least 300I ordered the administration that used the anti -anti -Semitic letter to target certain groups – Muslim and Palestinian students in particular – for detention and deportation.
I know Mohsen Mahdi because he was a student at the University of Lehayi before moving to Colombia. I took many chapters, including a path for the American political establishment, and my path around social movements, before and during the roaming epidemic. At every time in Lehigh, Mohsen was one of the most talented, committed, studied and participant students. I knew he would do great things after moving to Colombia and abroad. While I was sad to see him leaving me, I was also happy to press for him, wrote a recommendation letter and met with him to develop a strategy on the transfer request.
I also remember that I think that Mohsen’s activity – although it depends on non -violent principles, is likely to make it a political goal in a country that mixes criticism of Israel with anti -Semitism fanaticism.
Students like Mohsen, in fact, is why I do what I do as a teacher. In many of our talks in the separation and exit, we talked about countless political and social issues. I remember his deep passion for politics and his commitment to violence, especially with regard to the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. He was a university campus activist who worked to educate his colleagues, both of whom about politics on a broader scale and the Israeli -Palestinian conflict in particular.
A Palestinian refugee optimist grew up in the occupied West Bank, and moved to the United States during 2010. I remember when he told me about his aspirations to play a pivotal role in the future, and to influence the American political discourse in a way that helps to mediate a long -term peace agreement between Israel and Palestine. Like other peace activists, he wanted a favorite solution to create a viable Palestinian state. I also remember to think that his activity, although based on non -violent principles, is likely to make it a political goal in a country that has become notorious because of the mixing of Israel’s criticism with anti -Semitism. Unfortunately, these concerns have become a reality after his arrest.
It is still an uncertain improved future. His lawyer Applied An order from the Federal Court to temporarily curb the government to deport it. But his fate, like the fate of many other Palestinian activists, is suspended in balance depending on how the courts respond when it comes to protecting the basic freedom of expression rights.
As an American citizen, I am lucky not to target him (at least not yet) in the Trump administration war against the opposition and its dark role towards authoritarian and Persian policy, which is especially directed against immigrants working on behalf of Palestine. I don’t know how long this good luck lasts. We see this president declares a comprehensive war on higher education, and universities like my country Targeted By the federal government due to the alleged anti -Semitism, although our students, faculty and administration members have made efforts to create an environment on the campus where it is not tolerated with anti -Semitism. In the end, such efforts do not seem important to the Trump administration, which has I promised “To” “Exodus”, the left -wing radical thugs that live like insects within our country ” – fascist discourse Targeting Colleges and universities for the alleged left bias.
American intellectual culture did not have a good record when it came to protect the critics of Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. I remember a teacher of me-a Palestinian professor who taught me for years during the years of university and graduate studies-warning that I should avoid any academic and scientific work on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because the United States has never respected this type of work as a legal scientific analysis. It is clear that my teacher was talking about the experience: He was attacked for decades as an enabled “terrorism” for his criticism of Israel, despite his long -colored commitment and a peaceful state between Israel and Palestine, and despite his unmatched rejection of anti -bidding -to -proudly.
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The Americans are at a crossroads when it comes to the rise of fascism. We can choose to look at the other direction, where political activists are targeted, detained, repressed and deported for their ethnic backgrounds and political opinions. We cannot do anything because the Trump administration sends experimental balloons aimed at destroying the remaining academic and intellectual freedom and the first right to express the views of the individual – regardless of the extent of these opinions. But the option of not doing anything is in fact to give up our basic freedoms, and only allows the administration to be appointed to destroy individual rights and political opposition. Through silence, we implicitly embrace emerging fascist policy. However, the nation cannot survive, democratically, when the administration spit in the face of due legal procedures, legal rights and the rule of law.
Instead, Americans can choose to fight against the attack on our democracy. This is likely to require a mass protest against the Trump administration. It may actually require a non -violent national action, as citizens use protest to make the country unconscious, as well as isolation and removal of a president who explained that he is devoted to dismantling the remains of American democracy and the rule of law. Time is rapidly running out for members of this country to take a position. If we do not act soon, there will be little left for the defense.
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