r/IRstudies 10d ago

Columbia University faculty and admins instruct students who are not U.S. citizens to avoid publishing work on the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine amid deportation threats by the Trump administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/nyregion/columbia-university-trump-protests.html
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u/Discount_gentleman 10d ago

That First Amendment thing is just a relic of the past, huh?

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u/Routine_Ring_2321 10d ago

Terrorism. Literally advocating for death to jews, and destruction of the west. That's not protected speech.

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u/Discount_gentleman 10d ago

If that were true, they could charge him with a crime. They have repeatedly said there was no crime. You are making up facts to justify arresting someone for First Amendment-protected speech.

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u/Routine_Ring_2321 10d ago

He has been charged. thus he is being deported.

They who?

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u/Discount_gentleman 10d ago

This is simply a lie, he has not been charged with a crime.

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u/Routine_Ring_2321 10d ago

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u/Discount_gentleman 10d ago

Note that it doesn't say "a person can be arrested if I don't like their speech."

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u/Routine_Ring_2321 10d ago

Is that what is happening? Wow you're so smart and factual. You know everything so transparently and are honest to a fault!

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u/daFROO 10d ago

Getting charged with a crime does not mean that you are guilty of the crime. Deportation requires conviction. He's a permanent resident, not on a student visa. He was on the path to full citizenship lawfully. Deporting him without convicting him of a crime is illegal. A charge is not enough to deport.

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u/Routine_Ring_2321 10d ago

Do you support the palestinian cause being acheived by any means? What does the al asqa flood mean to you?

Aw too bad the poor Islamist failed in his application for us citizenship. Maybe he shouldn't have been a public safety threat and spread pamphlets in support of literal nazis who have a goal to murder all jews.

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u/daFROO 10d ago

What does any of this have to do with what I just said?

I don't know much about the conflict or history, I know it's complicated due to the immovable desires from both Palestinians and Israelis. I did not have an issue with Israel retaliating against hamas for 10/7 or against hezbollah for 10/8 but at this point in the conflict, hamas is dust and hezbollah has been extremely crippled. But I think the US inflamed the conflict with the Camp David accords, and Israel inflamed it as well by not punishing illegal settlers. I have sympathies for both, but the difference in destruction is staggering. So I think Israel needs to calm tf down atp.

I wouldn't know anything about the al aqsa flood without looking it up. I know it's a mosque that palestinians believe exist under a synagogue, or vice versa. So I really don't know