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The current US administration is positioning any support of Palestinian people as a vehicle for bootstrapping the implementation of processes & precedents for crushing dissent.

While Mahmoud's own rights must be fought for tooth & nail, it is a mistake to assume his deportation is solely about him & his views. They have used him to prepare the ground for wide scale criminalisation of protest itself.

For the Far Right, speech is only free when it comes from their mouths

https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-protester-ruling-deport-fd9e80583af3109d7de0a5264e79ea61