On Tuesday, ICE agents arrested a PhD student at Tufts University, a private university in Massachusetts, an arrest that appears to be part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen in the US on an F-1 student visa, was arrested outside of her apartment and is now in federal custody. Her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai, said she has not been able to contact her.
“We are unaware of her whereabouts and have not been able to contact her. No charges have been filed against Rumeysa to date that we are aware of. We hope Rumeysa will be released immediately,” Khanbabai said.
Khanbabi said that “based on patterns we are seeing across the country, her exercising her free speech rights appear to have played a role in her detention,” referring to the targeting of foreign students who are critical of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Ozturk has been targeted by the Canary Mission, a pro-Israel group that doxxes students and professors who are critical of Israel. The Canary Mission’s page on Ozturk lists only one example of her “anti-Israel activism,” the co-authoring of an op-ed that called for Tufts University to divest from Israel and “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide.”
According to The New York Times, Tuft administrators were notified that Ozturk’s visa has been revoked and said they weren’t given a reason.
“If ICE detained Ozturk based on her op-ed or activism, it’s a worrying escalation in an already fraught environment for college students here on student visas,” Tyler Coward, lead counsel for government affairs at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), said in a statement, according to the Times.
Ozturk is being held at a detention facility in Louisiana despite an order from a judge that she shouldn’t have been moved out of Massachusetts.
Freedonia, Freedonia!
Sigh!
This is really really bad folks:
https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/27/trump-killed-public-war-research-stargate-will-make-it-secret-and-far-more-dangerous/
Whitney Webb was writing about the surveillance.
Every accusation is a confession. The U.S. accuses China of running 'secret police stations' in the U.S. to harass dissidents but here we have thugs actually arresting someone on behalf of Israel.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
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First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
These arrests are not gonna put an end to resistance in US…!
Just the opposite, opposition is growing slowly but surely.
Vietnam took a long time too and so did the civil rights movement.
This is bad. I disagree with the Pro-Palestinians demonstrators, but I agree that they have the right to express their views.
The government does not have a rational convincing response explaining and justifying their official actions. Punishing and eliminating There is no excuse for genocide, and ban free speech is all they can do to prevent opposition. There is no excuse for brutal genocide, the biggest war crime there is.
Or Else!
Always, forever
trust people
with masks and guns
Or Else!
This is america?
oops,
careful what you say or question
Or Else!
As we do to those
who evilly
dare question us a!
Or Else!
Land of the free
home of the brave
have you SERVED???
Or Else!
Where is your flag?
Better stand for THE anthem
or off you go to guantanamo
Or Else!
THIS WILL MAKE YOUR BLOOD BOIL. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THOSE WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.
The Hate Group Helping Trump Deport Israel’s Critics
"Betar U.S. is known to have had several meetings with senior government officials and has claimed credit for the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the nationwide anti-genocide student demonstrations that began at Columbia University last year.
"Ross Glick, the group’s executive director until last month, noted that he met with a diverse set of influential lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. John Fetterman and aides to Republican Senators Ted Cruz and James Lankford, and that all supported Betar U.S.’ campaign to rid the country of thousands of “terror supporters.” READ ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE: https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/27/the-hate-group-helping-trump-deport-israels-critics/
Netanyahoo ordered a crackdown on pro-Palestine protests in the US and those orders are being carried out.