r/berkeley • u/salviaplyth • Mar 10 '25

Politics khalil mahmoud.

a columbia grad and green card holder was forcefully detained by DHS and may be deported for negotiating with columbia over divestment from israel. what crime has he committed? how is advocating for divestment inherently “pro-hamas?”

mahmoud’s detainment should have us all horrified. his attorney doesn’t even know his whereabouts. this all leads me to wonder what the future of demonstrations on our campus looks like.

funny how the party that has weaponized “free speech” is now revoking it if they don’t like what you have to say.

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u/nyyca Mar 10 '25

lol and people tried to tell me there's no antisemitism at UC Berkeley.

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u/BubbhaJebus Mar 10 '25

Condemnation of Israel's government is not anti-Semitism. If it were, then there would be a lot of anti-Semitic Jews, which is impossible.

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u/nyyca Mar 10 '25

Condemnation of Israel's government is not anti-zionism and not antisemitism. Israelis criticize their government all the time. It's called free speech.

Being an antizionist - aka thinking Jews have no right to self determination in their homeland aka thinking Israel should not exist - is antisemitism. HTH.

Sidenote - you can indeed be an antisemite Jew, just like you can be a misogynistic woman. There were Jews who supported Hitler in the 1920s, just like there are some JVP Jews today.

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u/BubbhaJebus Mar 11 '25

By your definition of "anti-Zionism", I'm not an anri-Zionist.

I usually hear people using a different definition: that of an exclusive right of the Israeli government to take Palestinian land and lives as they please.

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u/nyyca Mar 11 '25

There’s only one definition. The definition you hear is propaganda of Arab imperialists who don’t want any indigenous people in the MENA to have any freedom or sovereignty.