Columbia student activist and legal permanent resident, Mahmoud Khalil, was just targeted, denied due process, and abducted by ICE for exercising his constitutionally protected rights to free speech and assembly. He should be home with his wife who is eight months pregnant — not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers.
The White House's authoritarian actions are being falsely done in the name of Jewish safety and preying on legitimate Jewish fear about antisemitism. But this administration, which endangers Jewish life with Nazi salutes and its ties to the white nationalist movement, does not speak for us.
This attack is part of a right-wing plan to dismantle our democracy and shred the liberties of all Americans: Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Black, brown and white. Trans, queer, and straight. Immigrant, resident, citizen. Everybody.
We’ve seen this before. After detaining immigrants, activists, and trans people, the Nazi regime in Germany came for Jews. If we’re serious about safety for our Jewish communities, we must lock arms across religion, race, immigration status, and gender to protect our democracy and insist that freedom and safety is for all of us — no exceptions.
Add your name: American Jews demand that Mahmoud be released from custody and returned to his family immediately with his green card intact. For Mahmoud’s safety and all of our safety.