Sam Husseini -- "Is Israel the Deep State?" -- husseini.substack.com/p/is-israel-the-deep-state
FREE MAHMOUD FREE PALESTINE! -- March 22nd at 8pm ET -- organized by The People's Forum: www.youtube.com/live/AHnzqVlwhrg?reload=9
"READ IT: Political Prisoner Mahmoud Khalil Issues First Public Statement Since His Arrest" -- decensorednews.substack.com/p/mahmoud-khalil-letter-political-prisoner-louisiana
fair.org/home/in-return-to-war-on-terror-propaganda-murdoch-cheers-suppression-of-protest/
"'Hate Speech' Cannot Be Prohibited in a Democracy" -- ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/hate-speech-cannot-be-prohibited
Swiss Action for Human Rights petition -- www.change.org/p/accountability-for-ali-abunimah-s-detention-and-deportation-by-swiss-authorities
From the above link, contact information for the Department of Security of the canton of Zurich: ds at ds.zh.ch
Also: www.swissactionforhumanrights.org/news
"U.S./Zionist Aggression Targets Resistance Leaders and Gaza Government Officials" -- cpcml.ca/ITN2025/TI5543.HTM
"All Out to Condemn U.S./Zionist Crime of Genocide Against Palestinian People!" -- cpcml.ca/ITN2025/TI5541.HTM#1
www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/22/the-ceasefire-that-never-was/
ADC is hiring, deadline April 20th.
1. Sent out at 5:16pm on March 19th:
Tell your Senators: No More Weapons to Israel!
Contact your Senators TODAY! |
Yesterday, we witnessed Israel’s further attack on Gazans and the ongoing disregard for the ceasefire. These attacks have taken the lives of more than 400 Palestinians, many of whom were sleeping when the carpet bombing began. ADC continues to call for an immediate suspension of aid to Israel and any military assistance from the United States.
Since taking office, President Trump has approved nearly $12 billion in major FMS sales to Israel. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a declaration on March 1 to deliver approximately $4 billion in military assistance to Israel. Both the Biden and Trump Administrations have made it abundantly clear that Israel’s greatest ally is the United States. As Americans currently suffer from rising inflation costs, unprecedented unemployment rates, and a misinformation war, American tax dollars are going to fund the genocide in Gaza.
Senator Bernie Sanders has filed four Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) that would block the sale of $8.56 billion in offensive weaponry to Israel. The export of these weapons would be used against Gaza and Lebanon, who have suffered tens of thousands of deaths since October 7. 2023.
“Tragically, much of this carnage has been carried out with American bombs and weapons,” Sanders continued. “Netanyahu has used our bombs to damage or destroy almost 70 percent of the structures in Gaza, including hundreds of schools. All of this has been done in clear violation of U.S. and international law. With Trump and Netanyahu openly talking about forcibly displacing millions of Palestinians from Gaza – in other words, ethnic cleansing – it would be unconscionable to provide more of the bombs and weapons Israel has used to kill so many civilians and make life unlivable in Gaza.”
As the attack on Gazans wages on, we must do our part. We demand that Congress block weapons sales to Israel and put an end to what this is: an ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Click the link below to let your Senators know to sign onto Sen. Sanders’ four Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs). |
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2. Sent out March 18th in late afternoon:
ADC Statement on the Collapse of a Ceasefire That Never Was
Bombing has resumed in Gaza, with initial reports indicating that at least 400 people—mostly women and children—have died in less than 24 hours. While media outlets and governments worldwide decry the “collapse” of the ceasefire, it is evident there was never a real ceasefire in Palestine. Bombs may have paused in Gaza, but Israel’s genocide continued through conditions engineered to kill Palestinians—disease, starvation, and exposure to freezing temperatures. In the West Bank, Israel employed the same tactics of killings, mass forced displacement, and destruction of civilian infrastructure.
Israel has never stopped massacring Palestinians. Instead, the suffering of those in Gaza and the West Bank has become political currency, fueling the ambitions of world leaders—starting with the United States.
President Trump once campaigned on an aversion to war and now touts plan to reduce military spending. Yet the U.S. continues to bankroll and enable Netanyahu’s genocide, proving that U.S. policy is rooted not in principle, but in self interest and the pursuit of power. The ADC calls for an immediate end to military funding and support to Israel from the United States.
People everywhere demand peace, yet our elected officials drag us deeper into war. The Middle East is being pushed to the brink, and the world allows the violence to escalate, unabated, allowing Israel to act with total impunity for decades.
Israel’s unrelenting assault has turned entire neighborhoods to dust, leveled hospitals, obliterated schools, and wiped out essential infrastructure. By cutting electricity and water, it is accelerating famine and disease, ensuring suffering at an unfathomable scale. This is a modern Holocaust, a calculated campaign of annihilation designed to collectively punish an entire population.
Despite global outrage, governments continue to let Israel act with total impunity, issuing empty condemnations while upholding diplomatic ties and military trade -- directly enabling its genocide. ADC demands an immediate end to these atrocities and concrete action to protect Palestinian lives. Every state has a duty to intervene and stop this genocide. Justice and peace must replace this cycle of destruction—now.
3. Sent out March 16th in late morning:
Breaking: Emergency Lawsuit Filed Challenging Attack on Free Speech; National Injunction Demanded
Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org | March 16, 2025 - Late yesterday evening, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), along with co-counsel, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a Cornell University professor and two graduate students. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, challenges the constitutionality of two Executive Orders used by the Trump Administration to target and deport international students advocating for Palestinian freedom, rights, and liberation under the guise of protecting national security.
Plaintiffs are seeking a nationwide injunction of the enforcement of EO Numbers 14161 and 14188 to the extent they authorize deportation or prosecution based on protected speech. ADC Legal Director Chris Godshall-Bennett, along with Attorneys Eric Lee and Jonathan Wallace, Attorney Maria Kari of Project TAHA, and Attorney Mohammad Saleem of Davis Ndanusa Ikhlas & Saleem LLP, represent Momodou Taal, Mũkoma Wa Ngũgĩ, and Sriram Parasurama - two students and a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, whose activism and support of Palestine, has put them at serious risk of political persecution.
This bold legal challenge directly targets the Administration’s unconstitutional campaign against free speech—particularly as it affects international students and scholars who protest or express support for Palestinian rights. The administration has begun enforcement of these orders with last week’s arrest of former Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil. The government’s explicit goal is to end the Palestine Solidarity Movement in the country - however the attack on our First Amendment Rights is a concern for all Americans.
“This lawsuit is a necessary step to preserve our most fundamental constitutional protections,” said Abed Ayoub, National Executive Director of ADC. “The First Amendment guarantees the freedom of speech and expression to all persons within the United States, without exception. By targeting and punishing students who have spoken up in support of Palestine—or otherwise engaged in lawful protest—the Administration’s extreme Orders threaten to silence entire communities and unlawfully single out international students simply for their speech and expression.”
ADC’s attorneys, along with co-counsel, have taken a firm stand to defend the constitutional rights at stake. “This is one of those times people will look back on and ask what we did. We will not stand idly by while the government disappears its political opponents. My family fled European antisemitism and came to the United States where our Constitution protects us from tyranny. My Jewish identity won’t be used as an excuse to persecute the Palestinian people and its allies without a fight,” said ADC Legal Director Chris Godshall-Bennett. “Through this litigation, we seek both immediate and long-term relief to protect non-citizens from deportation and citizens from prosecution based on their constitutionally protected speech.”
Momodou Taal, one of the three plaintiffs, is a Ph.D. student at Cornell University on a student visa and a long-time advocate for Palestinian freedom. His leadership in the student movement for Palestine at Cornell has made him a target of discipline, doxxing, and, now, threats of deportation. The Executive Orders and their enforcement have chilled Momodou’s speech and activism much like they have students’ across the country.
Momodou Taal said: “The U.S. government claims to be zealous about free speech — except when it comes to Palestine. We’ve been here before: McCarthyism to Civil Rights to Vietnam, times when this country has deviated from its stated commitments to free speech. This is another generational moment, another hour of reckoning. Why is there a Palestine exception?”
The Administration’s actions amount to a sweeping, unconstitutional restriction on the rights of international students and strike at the heart of the First Amendment. There is no “Palestine Exception” to the First Amendment. President Trump’s executive orders do not just chill speech - they target it. They punish students for what they believe and who they dare to stand up for. That strikes at the heart of constitutional protections and threatens to carve out dangerous new limits on freedom of
ADC remains steadfast in its commitment to safeguarding the rights of all communities, and will continue to oppose any measure that violates core constitutional guarantees. By filing this lawsuit and requesting an emergency Temporary Restraining Order, we reaffirm our dedication to ensuring that the principles enshrined in the First Amendment remain robust and accessible to everyone, especially those with views disfavored by those in power.
Click here to read a copy of the submitted complaint and copy of submitted TRO Motion. |
If you are an attorney who is interested in volunteering your time and providing legal support to students, please submit your information here.
The ADC Legal Department is available to provide private know your rights sessions, and consultations to student groups. If you are a student group interested in learning more, please send an email to legal[at adc org] |
About ADC: The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is the largest Arab American grassroots organization in the U.S., founded in 1980 by former Senator James Abourezk. ADC’s mission is to defend and promote the human rights, civil rights, and liberties of at least 3.7 million Arab Americans residing in the United States. Through its work, ADC fights discrimination in the U.S., enhances public understanding of Arab history and culture, and partners with marginalized communities globally to advance social justice.
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