Re: Is Mahmoud Khalil the new Emma Goldman? Larry Cohler-Esses, March 14, 2025, Forward
March 16, 2025
Dear Editor,
We have gotten used to American governments negotiating with Hamas political figures, not demanding that these people who financed and trained Hamas to butcher Jews should be extradited to the Jewish state to face justice for their crimes. If Hamas' crimes had occurred in continental America, the U.S. would be pressuring Qatar and Turkey full time to return these criminal to face American justice, but Israeli justice... there is just too much hatred for this country to treat it like a normal state. One reason for this are Middle Eastern studies professors supporting student organizations set up to isolate and demonize Jewish students and professors, also given a free pass by American authorities. So when an American president no matter how much he is loathed by the left gets serious about getting rid of foreign rabble rousers, his motives are interpreted as an action resulting from his illegal immigration policies, not as a serious effort to purge Jew hatred from our country. It will surely be that Mahmoud Khalil will be canonized by free speech warriors even if his speech is designed to incite the murder of Jews and the destruction of America. Che Guevarra had his fifteen minutes of fame and now Mahmoud Khalil will become the poster boy for democratic freedoms. Those who support this moral perversion clearly no longer have functional gag reflexes.
Larry Shapiro, Calgary
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