GAZA Protests Escalate In American Colleges… Here’s One Hamas Leader Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud
If the entire project rests on Palestinians being an oppressed unique people group...
With the ongoing conflict in Gaza heating up again, the Pro-Gaza protesters in America are escalating their campus protests again. The results are NOT the same as before.
And old footage from leaders of Hamas themselves are exposing as lies the cornerstone argument we hear in defending the legitimacy of Gazan claims against Israel… a bonus we will add at the end of this story.
Under Joe Biden, none of the particpants in the protests that included property destruction and in at least one instance, kidnapping, had the slightest concerns that they would be bounced out of the country like a sloppy drunk might be bounced out of a bar.
The Trump administration sees a student visa as a privilege — one that can be easily revoked if the person coming here is a detriment to society. The FAFO principle is rolling on, and one of the foreign born student protesters has already moved to the ‘finding out’ phase of that equation.
As Bill Melugin reported:
BREAKING: Per a senior State Department official, yesterday, the State Dept. revoked the first visa for an “alien who was previously cited for criminal behavior in connection with Hamas-supporting disruptions”.
I’m told this person was a university student, and “ICE will proceed with removing this person from the country.”
The official says the State Dept. reviewed over 100,000 visas, and records showed the Biden administration canceled zero visas for pro Hamas activities or associated criminal behavior, despite the wave of protests on college campuses that broke out after the 10/7/2023 terror attacks on Israel.
The student’s name is Mahmoud Khalil.
An administration spokesperson gave some clarifying details:
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, confirmed Khalil’s arrest in a statement Sunday, describing it as being “in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism.”
Khalil’s arrest is the first publicly known deportation effort under Trump’s promised crackdown on students who joined protests against the war in Gaza that swept college campuses last spring. The administration has claimed participants forfeited their rights to remain in the country by supporting Hamas.
McLaughlin signaled the arrest was directly connected to Khalil’s role in the protests, alleging he “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.” — AP
With schools having their funding yanked, and protesters poised to resume the smash-and-occupy tactics we saw last year, this deportation may be the harbinger of more to come.
The entire basis of the justification of the conflict between Gaza and Israel hinges on questions of legitimacy and prior claim to the land. The pro-Gazan claim asserts that a distinct and unique people living on the land now called ‘Gaza’ have a history going back hundreds of generations. On that basis, they will insist that they have as much legitimacy — or possibly more — than the Jews returning to the ancient homeland.
Jews, obviously, would reply that is their ancient homeland, from which they were displaced by military might of successive invading forces. Their ancient homeland is one where the actual tombs of the patriarchs named in their scriptures can still be found… not to mention the central hub of religious life for Israel: Jerusalem, on which some part of their ancient temple still stands.
What happens to the Gazan claims if the idea of a distinctively Palestinian population is more myth than reality, if even their family names testify against them that their homelands were from many nearby Arab countries, especially Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
You might dismiss such a claim if it were only a Western writer with clear sympathies to the Israeli cause posing such questions. But what about when it comes from a Hamas leader’s own lips… one who himself claims to be of Egyptian descent?
All it took was 46 seconds to torpedo a key claim in the legitimacy of his own cause:
If you’re wondering who this guy is, the European Council of Foreign Relations has a link to his bio:
Fathi Hamad (فتحي حماد), born in 1961 in Gaza, has been a member of Hamas’s Politburo since 2017. He was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in 2006, and appointed as Hamas’s minister of interior and national security in Gaza from 2009 to 2014. He is considered to be a hardliner.
Hamad joined the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1980 and was an active in student politics. He joined Hamas’s internal security force (“al-Majed”) in 1984, and formed the group’s first military presence in the Jabaliyya refugee camp in 1988. He spent six years in Israeli prisons from 1988 to 1994, in addition to being arrested three times by the PA for a total of two years. He helped to establish several Islamic media institutions and charities focusing on prisoners and people with injuries and special needs.
If even members of the leadership of freaking HAMAS are not buying the notion of Palistinians as a ‘Unique local subculture’ with greater natural claim to that land than Israelis… how is it that we in the West are buying it?
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