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Diamond Member
‘Jonathan Greenblatt, the leader of the Anti-Defamation League, has walked back his organization’s previous support for President Donald Trump’s Trump campaign to detain and deport pro-Palestinian activists — thank God.
“No one should minimize the hateful, violent acts committed against Jewish students,” he wrote in an April 3 essay in eJewishPhilanthropy. “But if we sacrifice our constitutional freedoms in the pursuit of security, we undermine the very foundation of the diverse, pluralistic society we seek to defend.”
Now that the largest and most influential Jewish civil rights organization has reconsidered its unjustifiable initial support for the detentions, it’s time for others who may also have been seduced into believing such draconian measures are “good for the Jews” to speak out against them.
Greenblatt said his awakening came after the detention of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, whom masked ICE agents swooped down on and disappeared as she left her home in Somerville, Mass. last week. Her crime? The 30-year-old Turkish national co-authored an op-ed in Tufts’ student newspaper calling for the university to divest from Israel.’
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To be pro-Palestinian is not ‘antisemitism.’
To engage in warranted, appropriate criticism of Israel is not ‘antisemitism.’
And neither justifies deportation – to seek to deport pro-Palestinian immigrants lawfully in the country is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
“No one should minimize the hateful, violent acts committed against Jewish students,” he wrote in an April 3 essay in eJewishPhilanthropy. “But if we sacrifice our constitutional freedoms in the pursuit of security, we undermine the very foundation of the diverse, pluralistic society we seek to defend.”
Now that the largest and most influential Jewish civil rights organization has reconsidered its unjustifiable initial support for the detentions, it’s time for others who may also have been seduced into believing such draconian measures are “good for the Jews” to speak out against them.
Greenblatt said his awakening came after the detention of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, whom masked ICE agents swooped down on and disappeared as she left her home in Somerville, Mass. last week. Her crime? The 30-year-old Turkish national co-authored an op-ed in Tufts’ student newspaper calling for the university to divest from Israel.’
The ADL reversed its support for Trump’s student deportations. You should too
The ADL has walked back its initial support for the Trump administration's efforts to detain and deport pro-Palestinian student protesters.
forward.com
To be pro-Palestinian is not ‘antisemitism.’
To engage in warranted, appropriate criticism of Israel is not ‘antisemitism.’
And neither justifies deportation – to seek to deport pro-Palestinian immigrants lawfully in the country is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
