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#rumeysaozturk
- she is a woman
- she is muslim
- she studies and she thinks by herself
3 crimes for these mysoginistic racist bigots
Report: Days before masked immigration agents detained Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept said there was no evidence linking her to antisemitic activities or support for a 'terrorist' organization."
Yet she was arrested for engaging “in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization."
Ozturk had co-written an op-ed calling for her university to divest from Israel.
Report: Days before masked immigration agents detained Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept said there was no evidence linking her to antisemitic activities or support for a 'terrorist' organization."
Yet she was arrested for engaging “in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization."
Ozturk had co-written an op-ed calling for her university to divest from Israel.
This is a very long thread, reporting on a hearing for Rümeysa Öztürk, the college student who was snatched by ICE on video.
I understand only some of it. What’s important here is that there’s a glimmer of hope. The ACLU is fighting for her, and the judge is listening. That’s monumental in the fight against fascism.
#RümeysaÖztürk #ACLU #ICE #Palestine #OpEd #Xenophobia #Hearing
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/post/3lmroutlt322t
Report: Days before masked immigration agents detained Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept said there was no evidence linking her to antisemitic activities or support for a 'terrorist' organization."
Yet she was arrested for engaging “in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization."
Ozturk had co-written an op-ed calling for her university to divest from Israel.
Report: Days before masked immigration agents detained Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept said there was no evidence linking her to antisemitic activities or support for a 'terrorist' organization."
Yet she was arrested for engaging “in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization."
Ozturk had co-written an op-ed calling for her university to divest from Israel.
#DHS originally recommended the revocation of #RumeysaOzturk’s #visa under an authority in the #Immigration & Nationality Act that allows for the deportation of a foreigner if the secy of state has reasonable grounds to believe the person’s presence or activities has “adverse policy consequence for the United States,” acc/to a copy of a separate memo reviewed by WaPo & sent by DHS to the #State Dept before her detention last month.
Oops. another administrative error? We are all one error away from being kidnapped like #RumeysaOzturk or #KhalilMahmoud. We are they.
The memo, written by an office within the #State Dept, raises doubts about the public accusations made by the #Trump administration as it has sought to justify #RumeysaOzturk’s #deportation. The #DHS has said Ozturk engaged in activities “in support of Hamas,” a #US - designated terrorist organization, but neither that agency nor US prosecutors have provided evidence for that claim.
Days BEFORE masked #ICE agents detained #Tufts University student #RumeysaOzturk to deport her, the #State Dept determined that the #Trump admin had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization, as the govt has alleged.
#TrumpLies #immigration #law #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess
No evidence linking #Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, #State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared days before #RumeysaOzturk was detained by #ICE agents, raises doubts about the #Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
#TrumpLies #immigration #law #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/13/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-trump/
So, if you were wondering whether there's anything hypothetical about the "chilling effect" all this fascist repression is designed to produce in folks who oppose the Trump regime, a recent Guardian article demonstrates that it's real and ongoing - not just for anti-genocide protestors and foreign students, but for US-born critics of the regime writing in college papers too:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/student-journalists-remove-stories-trump
US student journalists go dark fearing Trump crusade against pro-Palestinian speech
"Fearing legal repercussions, online harassment and professional consequences, student journalists are retracting their names from published articles amid intensifying repression by the Trump administration targeting students perceived to be associated with the pro-Palestinian movement.
Editors at university newspapers say that anxiety among writers has risen since the arrest of the Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention fighting efforts to deport her. While the government has not pointed to evidence supporting its decision to revoke her visa, she wrote an op-ed last year in a student newspaper critical of Israel, spurring fears that simply expressing views in writing is now viewed as sufficient grounds for deportation.
Ozturk is one of nearly a dozen students or scholars who have been seized by immigration officials since 8 March, when Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student and green card holder, was arrested and placed in deportation proceedings over his role in pro-Palestinian protests. Student editors report particularly acute anxieties among international students who have contributed to their newspapers, but say that requests to take down stories over fears of retaliation are coming from US citizens, too."
The reality that no authoritarian regime wants dissidents to realize, is that they literally do not have the resources to police and punish *everyone* who opposes the state. What they rely on is cracking down on high profile targets that generate a lot of publicity, folks like Mahmoud Khalil, and Rumeysa Ozturk, to force everyone else to self censor, lest they be next. I'm not going to criticize the student writers for asking college newspapers at institutions that have shown no ability or willingness to protect them, to erase their critiques of the regime to protect their personal safety; very few people in our society are actually prepared to suffer the horrible consequences of a fascist police state targeting them personally, and a lot of people reading this would make the same decision in their shoes.
What I will say however is that this response is exactly what the fascist Trump regime wants, and that's why it behooves the rest of society to give a fuck about the free speech rights of student protestors and journalists; and act in numbers large enough to protect us all while working to stop this fascist repression by any means necessary.
Anti-empathy = death cult: the #DOJ's disgusting delay of #Abrego Garcia's return; the kidnapping of the #RumeysaOzturk #KhalilMahmoud's imprisonment; cuts to #Medicaid, #SocialSecurity, #Alzheimer's research & "So it Goes" to quote #Vonnegut.
"Trump's sociopathy now outranks the empathy of Jesus in MAGA eyes. But there's another angle to this, as well: This is about the MAGA right's unhinged obsession w/gender & escalating hatred of women."
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/11/magas-on-empathy-exposes-misogynist-fears/
Anti-empathy = death cult: the #DOJ's disgusting delay of #Abrego Garcia's return; the kidnapping of the #RumeysaOzturk #KhalilMahmoud's imprisonment; cuts to #Medicaid, #SocialSecurity, #Alzheimer's research & "So it Goes" to quote #Vonnegut.
"Trump's sociopathy now outranks the empathy of Jesus in MAGA eyes. But there's another angle to this, as well: This is about the MAGA right's unhinged obsession w/gender & escalating hatred of women."
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/11/magas-on-empathy-exposes-misogynist-fears/
Hey #Vermont the fight has come to us.
#fascism #antifascism #FreePalestine #RumeysaOzturk #FreeRumeysaOzturk
#BurlingtonVT #VTpol #BTV #FuckICE
'Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student activist who led campus pro-Palestinian rallies and is now resisting the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, has accused the university of laying “the groundwork for my abduction” and called on the student body to continue demonstrations and protests.'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university #ColumbiaUniversity #MahmoudKhalil #RümeysaÖztürk #deportations #Trump #ICE #Israel #genocide #Gaza
#RumeysaOzturk news: Case transferred to #Vermont jurisdiction (from unfriendly Louisiana). A partial win? #SomervilleMA #Boston https://www.cambridgeday.com/2025/04/04/ozturks-case-is-transferred-to-vermont/ #uspol
#Jewish #ColumbiaUniversityStudents Chain Themselves to #ColumbiaUniversity Fence to Protest #Khalil Detention
"As Jewish students, we grew up learning about the rise of #fascism, learning about how important it is to stand up when you see #injustice in the world," said one #protester.
by Julia Conley, Apr 02, 2025
"'We are here in protest of that to demand that the university tell us which trustees, which members of the university administration, are responsible for this so we can demand immediate consequences for them and hold them accountable for what they've done to our peer,' said the undergraduate student.
"Shea added that Jewish students were leading the protest because 'the attacks on our international students, on students of color, have been so fierce, so dangerous, so disproportionate that we are the only students who can be here right now taking this risk.'"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-student-protests
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #AlirezaDoroudi #RumeysaOzturk #YunseoChung #KseniyaPetrova #Disappeared #Orwellian #MemoryHole #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ICE
#JewishVoicesForPeace
Kaveh Akbar: «What will you do? Not the royal you, but you specifically? […]
I want to tell you powerlessness is an alibi. Hopelessness too. I want to ask, what specifically are you going to do? Tomorrow, the next day? What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
I want to say, it’s your turn now, help. This is us asking you while we still can.»
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/rumeysa-ozturk-kaveh-akbar/