The New Speech Police

The case against Mahmoud Khalil keeps getting darker and dumber

The Department of Homeland Security is now openly equating pro-Palestinian protest activity with “supporting Hamas.” From an NPR interview with DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar about Mahmoud Khalil:

Elsewhere in the interview, Edgar effectively compares Khalil’s protest activity to “terrorism,” and directly calls it “antisemitism activity.”

We just spent the better part of the last decade suffocating under an ideology that equates words with violence, condemns people for guilt by association, and accuses anyone who dissents from its orthodoxy of racism. The Trump administration has adopted this same idiotic dogma to vilify its enemies.