Who knew the Trump administration learn The Tufts Each day?
Who knew that anyone learn The Tufts Each day, for that matter.
Maybe now they need to. It’s the college’s pupil newspaper that ran the now controversial anti-Israel, professional Hamas opinion piece that led to the whisking of Rumeysa Ozturk off the streets of Somerville by federal brokers.
Ozturk, 30, a Turkish citizen finding out for a doctorate at Tufts on a pupil visa, was scooped up and detained March 25 after her visa was revoked over her alleged help of Hamas, a delegated terrorist group that has taken American lives.
Whereas ICE has been lower than forthcoming over what “crime” Ozturk is charged with, her alleged participation in antisemitic, pro-Hamas exercise is sufficient to get her kicked in another country.
“We do it day-after-day, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated of revoking Ozturk’s visa, “Each time I discover certainly one of these lunatics, I take away their visa.”
Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, stated,” We provide you with a visa to return and research and get a level not [to] change into a social activist who tears up our college campuses. And if we’ve given you a visa and also you determine to do this, we’re going to take it away. We don’t need it in our nation.
“Return and do it in your nation. However you’re not going to do it in our nation.”
The one anti-government protesting Ozturk may do in Turkey underneath the hardline management of President Recep Erdogan can be from a jail cell.
Come to think about it, that’s the place she is now, not in Turkey however in the US. She was in a U.S. Customs and Immigration Detention Middle in Louisiana final week when a federal decide, U.S. District Decide William Periods, dominated on Thursday that she have to be transferred to Vermont by Might 1.
Based on Rubio, she by no means would have been granted a visa within the first place if she stated she was going to be concerned pro-Hamas exercise and writing op-eds about it.
Whereas the federal authorities has but to supply compelling proof that Ozturk participated in pro-Hamas, and-Israel rallies at Tufts or elsewhere, the federal government did cite the op-ed piece that ran in The Tufts Each day.
An op ed is a column by contributors that runs on a newspaper web page reverse the editorial web page. Therefore op ed.
It was signed by Ozturk and three others—Fatima Rahman, Genesis Perez and Nicholas Ambeliotis.
But when it was that pro-Hamas propaganda piece that bought Ozturk in bother it’s fairly skinny gruel, as they used to say. And it took 4 individuals to put in writing it, which is why it’s a tough learn.
Ozturk and her fellow writers repeated the well-worn accusation of the “deliberate hunger and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and believable geocide” by the Israeli authorities.
Naturally, being propaganda, the piece failed to say who began the conflict within the first place on Oct 7. 2023 when Hamas invaded Israel and horrifically slaughtered some 1,200 harmless Jewish males, ladies and kids, together with Individuals, and kidnapped others.
That is like blaming Ukraine for beginning the conflict with Russia when it was Russia that invaded Ukraine.
Nonetheless, it could be most assuring if the Trump administration got here up with one thing greater than a badly written pro-Hamas propaganda piece to throw Ozturk in another country
It could additionally assist the administration win its public relations battle with the Democrats over the difficulty.
The Boston Globe runs related op ed items with unfamiliar bylines virtually day-after-day and no person appears to take umbrage and even discover.
Possibly Ozturk ought to have run the piece within the Globe.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas may be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
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