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American Jews Demand: Release Mahmoud Khalil

Friend,

Columbia student activist and legal permanent resident, Mahmoud Khalil, was just abducted by ICE for exercising his constitutionally protected rights to free speech and assembly. He should be home with his wife who is 8 months pregnant — not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers.1

The White House's authoritarian actions are being falsely done in the name of Jewish safety and preying on legitimate Jewish fear about antisemitism. But this administration, which endangers Jewish life with Nazi salutes and its ties to the white nationalist movement, does not speak for us.

We’ve been afraid this day would come since campus protests began. Now is the time for Jews and allies to declare that this is not the way to Jewish safety.

Sign the petition from American Jews: We demand ICE release Mahmoud Khalil.

I understand how damaging antisemitism is for Jewish people, for this country, and for all of us — no matter where it comes from. But let’s be clear: Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction does nothing to make Jews safer.

It’s actually part of a right-wing plan to shred the liberties of all Americans: Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Black, brown and white. Trans, queer, straight. Citizen, resident, immigrant. Everybody.

And it’s a blatant example of how this administration uses antisemitism as a smokescreen to enact its plans to bully, blame, and ban people — plans that have nothing to do with Jewish people or our safety.2

Add your name to the rapid response petition from American Jews: release Mahmoud Khalil now.

If this administration cared about Jewish people or wanted to end antisemitism, it would be upholding our freedoms to speak, study, and stand up for what we believe in — and it wouldn’t be filled with politicians who actively use antisemitism. We are calling Trump's bluff.

The way we actually end antisemitism is by locking arms across religion, race, immigration status, and gender and insisting that freedom and safety is for all of us — no exceptions.

In solidarity,

Jamie_Beran-2x.pngJamie Beran
CEO, Bend the Arc


Sources:
1. ICE arrests Palestinian activist with green card at Columbia University: Attorney, ABC News
2. Jewish Americans Say GOP's Phony Charges of Antisemitism Only Empower Trump's Authoritarianism, Common Dreams

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