He stood up against genocide. 

And for this, he was ambushed at his home,
abducted,
and arrested.

Arrested without cause.
Arrested without a warrant.
By plainclothes officers who refused to give their names.

Just handcuffed and shoved into the back of a car,
while his wife — eight months pregnant — watches and tries to understand what’s happening.

This is not a scene from some dark chapter of a distant past filled with black-and-white photos of bygone dictatorships. 

This happened here,
in the United States of America,
in March of this year.

It’s happening here right now. 

#Mahmoud #Khalil was a graduate student at Columbia University last year when he led protests against Israel’s US-backed Occupation of historic Palestine
and genocidal slaughter of Palestinians. 

But now, speaking out carries a high price.

And free speech is no longer so free.

Mahmoud Khalil is a U.S. resident,
born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.

But Trump officials say they’ve striped him of his Green Card,
and they’re holding him in an ICE jail in Louisiana…
far from his home in New York.

Far from his wife.

Unable to communicate with his lawyers or the outside world for days after his illegal abduction.

But Mahmoud Khalil is, still, not silent.

And he is not alone. 

As he stood up for the Palestinians facing Israeli bombs and the barrels of their guns,
others are standing up for Khalil.

People have rallied for his freedom.

Hundreds. Thousands.
From New York City to Boston.
Phoenix to Miami.
North Carolina to Oklahoma City.

Jewish peace activists protested inside Trump Tower.

The people will not be silent as the powerful try to silence the people’s freedom to speak.

To be willingly silent now will mean more unwilling silence later. 
https://therealnews.com/trump-targeted-mahmoud-khalil-to-inspire-fear