Author: Joseph Stepansky
Published on: 20/03/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Nader Hashemi, a professor of Middle East and Islamic politics at Georgetown University, has been a vocal critic of efforts to silence pro-Palestine protesters and academics amid Israel’s war in Gaza. These efforts reached new heights under the administration of President Donald Trump, which took the extraordinary measure of detaining and seeking to deport Mahmoud Khalil. Badar Khan Suri is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Civil liberties groups and rights observers have decried — and challenged — Khalil’s attempted deportation. That has often involved conflating anti-Jewish sentiment and support for Hamas. But Hashemi and his colleagues see the targeting of Suri as going a step further. Suri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh, confirmed to Al Jazeera that she is a US citizen. Ahmed Yousef, a former adviser to assassinated Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, confirms to The New York Times that Suri was his son-in-law. Suri remained at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centre in Louisiana on Thursday. In a statement on Wednesday, Georgetown University said it supports its community members “rights to free and open deliberation and debate” Meanwhile, the Alwaleed Center issued a passionate defence of Suri on Thursday, saying he has become the victim of a “campaign by the Trump Administration” Elgindy said the Trump administration continues to embrace a “dangerous conflation” when it comes to complex discussions of Palestinian rights and resistance. He described a 'genuine atmosphere of fear’ when it came to open academic debate on the complex realities that define the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Congressman Don Beyer also weighed in on Suri’s detention, calling it a violation of his right to “due process” and a ‘blatant attack on the First Amendment’ "Unless the people stand up and push back," says "unless the People stand up. "if the people stands up and pushing back," he says.
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