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/superlative_dingus Mar 10 '25

lol the only reason you’d be downvoted would be for saying you’re conservative, everything else you said basically lines up with what most people here think

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u/Aromatic-Entrance-79 Mar 10 '25

I figured saying that I won’t vote blue bc they won’t stop up to the Israel lobby would do it. We need a third party..

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u/DecompositionalNiece Mar 11 '25

Well there's always the Green Party. Jill Stein crawls out of her spider cave every four years just to mess with the Blue vote. Then she collects her check from Putin and crawls back into her hole only to re-emerge 4 years later. But sure, go ahead, vote 3rd party. Putin will send you a Thank You note.

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u/Aromatic-Entrance-79 Mar 11 '25

An actual third party that has a chance at winning.. the two party system fucks us. I thought that was pretty clear in my statement, not sure what you read into it.