Even fascist US govt says anti-genocide protester Khalil Mahmoud not accused of any crime but Bruce Blakeman claims he’s a paid criminal ‘antisemite’
A MAGA Republican politician has been caught out during a panel discussion on the CNN news channel about wrongly-arrested Palestinian Khalil Mahmoud, who has been abducted by Donald Trump’s immigration officials for taking part in protests on the Columbia University campus against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Even the US government has been clear that Mahmoud is not suspected of committing any crime and has been abducted because the fascist Trump regime does not like his politics or his criticism of Israel, but Bruce Blakeman falsely accused Mahmoud not only of being a ‘virulent antisemite’ and a paid agitator – but also of being accused of crimes, because why else would the government abduct him?
Blakeman is an Israel fanatic who has raised funds for the genocidal Israeli occupation force even as it prepared to slaughter hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians – and clearly not used to being challenged or scrutinised over his pro-Israel propaganda claims. But he floundered as his claims of evidence for his accusations fell apart, resorting to bluster and looking every inch an Israel lobby buffoon.
Earlier this week, a federal judge in New York temporarily blocked the regime’s removal of Mahmoud Khalil from the US, ruling that Khalil, a Columbia University graduate, must stay in the US to “preserve the court’s jurisdiction” while his legal team challenges the his arrest and detention. Khalil, a ‘green card’-holding permanent legal US resident, is entitled to every legal protection afforded to US citizens, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s spokeswoman has claimed that Rubio has the right to cancel anyone’s green card on a whim.
Khalil remains detained in a US ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility in Louisiana. Protests in New York and around the US are demanding his release and an end to the Trump government’s assault on constitutional, civil and human rights.
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anti-american
Pretty soon, keef and/or mizz balls/the shit idi amin tribute act (lammy) will be stood in between a couple of union flags, desperately complaining just how ‘anti-british’ the pro-palestinian protestors are.
All said without any sense of self-awareness, as they continue to sell off the remaining nhs assets to foreign interests, deprive pensioners, children, the sick and the unemployed…All the while boasting about how the toerags never did as much in their 14 years of government.
Cheered on by the resident nonce-defending gawp – who wouldn’t know a (proper) LABOUR policy if it kicked him up the arse, but happily, obliviously and unashamedly calls anyone who puts him right (which is everyone else) ‘tory’.
…as they continue to sell off the remaining nhs assets to foreign interests, deprive pensioners, children, the sick and the unemployed…
Oh, forgot to mention: “… and while they continue to refuse to tax non-doms, the obscenely wealthy and the corporates…”
Also forgot: “and while they all continue to kiss the arse of the wizened citrus, as he continues to rim vladdie the baddie, and arm blue-rinse benny to the teeth”
I’m hoping the following will work out OK, and the headline be in bold, and the passages from articles in italics…
The CAA are calling for the suspension of the licence fee, and took out full page ads in last Sunday’s Times, Telegraph and Mail to that effect. This of course in relation to the BBC documentary. Here’s the headline and a few clips:
CAA takes out full-page ads in Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph and Mail on Sunday calling for suspension of the licence fee
This weekend, we launched a full-page advertisement campaign in the Sunday newspapers calling for the suspension of the TV licence fee, pending an independent investigation into the BBC in relation to the Gaza film scandal and wider issues of bias against the Jewish state in its coverage.
The striking ads, which appeared in The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph and The Mail on Sunday thanks to the support of a generous donor, observed that a majority of the British public supports the launch of an independent investigation, according to polling commissioned by Campaign Against Antisemitism and conducted by YouGov, more on which below.
It is unconscionable to force people to pay a licence fee that for years has funded biased reporting and has now been handed to the family of a Hamas terrorist. The licence fee must be suspended pending an independent investigation.
Everyone has had enough of BBC bias and handing licence fee money to a Hamas terrorist’s family has to be the final straw [£790 apparently, or so I read in a Telegraph article yesterday].
Earlier in the week, the Culture, Media and Sport Committee heard from Dr Samir Shah, Chair of the BBC, and the Director-General of the BBC, Tim Davie.
The hearing came as the BBC is engulfed in scandal following its publication of the so-called documentary, ‘Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’.
For the second time in as many weeks, last Thursday evening we protested again outside Broadcasting House.
The hundreds in attendance heard from our Chief Executive, Gideon Falter; broadcaster and comedian Josh Howie; actress and columnist Dame Maureen Lipman; Nova music festival survivor Natalie Sanandaji; and Mark Birbeck, founder of Our Fight UK.
Last week, our protest demanded that the BBC stops whitewashing terrorism. This week, we gathered to tell the BBC: “We refuse to fund terrorists with our licence fee!”
Gideon Falter told the crowd: “A national treasure has become a national embarrassment.”
Josh Howie, who at last week’s protest announced on stage that he will no longer pay the BBC licence fee, told demonstrators this week: “We have no choice. We are all compelled to be here—compelled by decades of racism, compelled by the distortions, the omissions and the outright lies—all in service of creating a warped biased hateful narrative that has been directed at our community by the BBC. And just as much, we are also compelled to be here by the decades of inaction, dismissal and denial by the BBC of that racism.”
Dame Maureen Lipman asked: “Where is the balance? As always, all I ask for is a level playing field.”
And so it goes on, just piles of nazi-type shit from people who fully back genocide and the mass murder and maiming of hundreds of thousands of women and children and todlers and babies and pregnant women and the sick and the elderly and journalists and doctors and nurses and non-combatant men. I detest them all with every fibre of my being, and needless to say, they ALL have exactly the same supremicist mindset as the Nazis, and just like the Nazis, every single one of them is totally evil.
https://antisemitism.org/campaign-against-antisemitism-takes-out-full-page-ads-in-sunday-times-sunday-telegraph-and-mail-on-sunday-calling-for-suspension-of-the-licence-fee/
And JVL reposted the following a couple of days ago:
US student organisers defiant against deportation threat
JVL Introduction
The arrest of Palestinian activist Mohammed Khalil by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is another repressive act in the White House campaign to crush protests against Israel’s war on Palestine, a step so alarming that Judge Jesse Furman, an observant Jew serving on the bench at a federal district court in Manhattan, has issued an order blocking Khalil’s deportation.
A group of international graduate student organizers studying at universities in the United States have written the defiant statement below, published by Mondoweiss with an editor’s note explaining that the authors have requested anonymity “due to the current targeting of Palestine activists on student visas (and now, it seems, green cards) for deportation.”
Their message is one we should all heed:
We have taken on the role of witness, and we now carry a responsibility to act. This is true for millions of people all over the world, who, through Palestine, have witnessed the real face of the US empire.
NWI
We are international students organizing for Palestine, and we won’t be deterred
They can deport every last one of us, but they cannot erase the spirit of Palestinian resistance. That is what they fear.
We are international students who have organized in solidarity with the Palestine liberation struggle over the past 16 months. We write anonymously because the moment demands, strategically, that we do so. However, we will not be silenced. You may censure and suspend us, you may send ICE to knock down our doors, you may deport us back to our home countries, but we are only one drop in a vast ocean, and the tide of support for Palestine is rising everywhere….
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/us-student-organisers-defiant-against-deportation-threat/
Lipman asked: “Where is the balance? As always, all I ask for is a level playing field.”
Oh!! The humaniteeeee!!! 😱😱😱😱😱
Take it lipman will refuse any role in any bbc production from now on?
If so, then thank feck.
But lipman won’t. Just like all those times lipman left the labour party, already.
Gaza is now very much a level field thanks to all the bombing by the Israelis.