The Khalil Circus is quite insane. The level of support this scum bag is getting for his legal defense and media propaganda is startling. Assuming that the Government is correct, and the Secretary of State is allowed to deport him, the fall out from the citizens resulting from the media propaganda brain washing them will rival that of George Floyd. Let’s get the Nation Guard on call because it will be needed.
I don't think so - though they will try. A large majority of Americans disagree with what was/is happening on campus against Israel and Jewish students. Also, this isn't the George Floyd era, when progressive media controlled all the blow horns, and when all the other crazy leftists causes (e.g. open borders, radical trans movement etc) were still - mostly - in the shadows.
At least half the new right internet bro media is not in support of deporting the Islamist or cracking down on the Jew harrassment on campus. They are playing the there should be absolute free speech card.
Lee Smith is perhaps one of our most important foreign policy analysts. Along with Park, Tony Badran, Gadi Taub, VDH, and others, no one connects the dots like Lee and colleagues. Thanks Tablet for the best reads on the web!
Khalil ran afoul of US immigration law, not the First Amendment, and can legally be deported solely on national security grounds - regardless of if he actually broke any laws.
However - however - the Red-Green Alliance loves a martyr, and the Trump administration is giving them one.
I sincerely hope the government can produce evidence that definitively links Khalil either to a listed terrorist group or to blatantly illegal activity, to put to rest the notion that this is a First Amendment violation.
Think about the precedent this case sets - can you imagine a future Democratic administration deporting an Israeli Green Card holder due to prior IDF service, under the same pretext of national security?
Well, in my reading, I focus a lot about Israel and Jewish matters, Lee Smith article open my eyes to the China connection and all of the webs of deceit in education and media that so many gullible westerners believe.
Every time I see those JV for Palestine "Jews" it raises my anger and Blood pressure levels. Can you imagine a bunch of Muslim young adults marching, screaming and getting arrested for a Jewish cause??
Perhaps the Scroll/Tablet is infected with cognitive dissonance to levels that they’re unable to “see” the connective tissue between UK’s (our mother country!) Online Security Act going after citizens there for Islamophobic wrong-speech, and Trump’s ‘Catch & Revoke’ Executive Order that if pushed forward - says it will go after online ‘antisemitism’ by student visa holders and non-citizens.
Khalil (while a dirtbag) could be the pretext or ‘icon’ for Trump doing this on broader scale. And if so, that is to be pushed back on, hard. And I state that coming from the right side of the aisle.
IMO, we should all oppose our Federal government having citizens consent to use police powers to go after ‘hate speech’, no matter if it’s anti-Islam or anti-Judaic. Let’s not normalize that.
Because some day, the Federal government will change ideological hands. And then all those ready to hang and quarter Khalil will be given a mirror to gaze into when it’s their ‘hate speech’ that is criminalized.
It’s a banana peel that we can all too easily slip on, and then down the slope we all go.
Like Paul Simon said, slip sliding away. Away, away. No more threatening students of a different faith. Especially no more harassment of Jews. Been there, done that. The UK is a crockpot full of Islamic hate and I want none of it. They can't protect little girls. They can't protect women. They can't protect MP's from being murdered. Yet they have a lot to say about the American voters choice for President. No returning to brain dead leaders please. Deport Kahlil. Sooner the better.
I am confident that when Khalil is deported by the Secretary of State under immigration law and if Trump should try to silence the free speech of a US Citizen in the future that Justice will be served to such individual following first amendment principals and relevant case law. Just look at the outcry for this asshole using free speech as the basis. I can’t imagine the populous ignoring the first amendment when it actually does apply.
I certainly hope so, Brian. But I’d rather not hope. Which is why I’m skeptical of government in this case. And why I find myself having to defend this scumbag. It’s no fun to do so. I guess I’m just old enough to see how history can change, and when there’s anti-liberty tools normalized, opposing administrations to my values can & will use. I regret for example not speaking out against the Patriot Act when it came down, as I believe that stripped/chipped away at our freedoms — such as warrants & wiretaps by secret courts, FISA court authorized electronic monitoring and FBI secret gathering of financial/telecommunications records deemed ‘relevant’ to government investigations. That’s a stain Bush left us. Will Trump leave us w/ a similar one, w/ both sold as necessary for the ‘protection of national security’?
We saw what happens when people allow censorship. Deporting Kahlil is not censorship. It is putting out an out of control wildfire before it spreads. See the violence as it spreads across the UK, as listed abive, see the thousands of damaged girls by Muslims in the UK. That should.not.be.protected. it should be exposed for the live threat it is. The abuse of Government, whose job it is to protect its citizens, is already upon us. Stopping this "scumbag" closes an already opened door. Entry, greencard, Visa are not the same as citizenship. Citizenship is earned.
I really do want to look at it the way you describe. Maybe in time I will. My trust in government is fairly low, especially after lie of Iraq & then Covid. And a bit alarmed by the government suppression I see in EU, coming to our shores.
It is appropriate for you to be skeptical and open minded at the same time. Honestly, my way of looking at it gives me hope. Everywhere I turn, I see Islam spreading as it did during the 7th century, 12th century and today in Western Europe, which is toast. The US is the current battlefield for this fight and I fear that the infiltration into US society over the past two decades by those who seek to destroy us is very close to flipping the scales against us. The size of it is massive and frightening. The global progressive left is lying down its sword at the feet of their profit.
Do you really think Kahlil was arrested because he has a differing opinion than President Trump? If that was actually the case that would be terrifying, but it is not. Have you forgotten what has been happening at Columbia U? Hamas is a terror organization. Have you forgotten the Bibas family? The hostage taking of a family and the MURDER of a mom and her two babies? Now if the Government of USA was going to hold Kahlil underground in starvation, murder his pregnant wife and dance around in celebration of the dead bodies, I'd say there was room for moral dilemma. There is not. There is no room for Hamas here.
Quite right. The question of whether it is Constitutional is a tricky one – as with many of Trump’s novel schemes, the legal loophole does seem to exist but has been ignored for so long that there is very little case law to review for precedent. What is unequivocally correct is that this can of worms, once opened, will lead to dramatically worse outcomes for all of us as a populace. The parallel you mention with the overbearing European view of personal expression is exactly right.
I heard Khalil was trained at SIPA when Victoria Nuland was a professor. It seems he could be 5 eyes, MI5-CIA. It's possible we paid him for those protests
I see we have progressed from defending the tariffs as a negotiation tactic to claiming that they will punish China and immediately revitalize the heartland. Glad to hear that, in the weighty opinion of The Scroll, there are apparently no downsides to repeatedly punching ourselves in the face simply to spite the CCP.
The Khalil Circus is quite insane. The level of support this scum bag is getting for his legal defense and media propaganda is startling. Assuming that the Government is correct, and the Secretary of State is allowed to deport him, the fall out from the citizens resulting from the media propaganda brain washing them will rival that of George Floyd. Let’s get the Nation Guard on call because it will be needed.
I don't think so - though they will try. A large majority of Americans disagree with what was/is happening on campus against Israel and Jewish students. Also, this isn't the George Floyd era, when progressive media controlled all the blow horns, and when all the other crazy leftists causes (e.g. open borders, radical trans movement etc) were still - mostly - in the shadows.
I hope you are right.
But they will try.
And Trump 2.0 will send the national guard.
I hope he does. It’s overdue. And I hope they show no mercy to these terrorist-enablers.
At least half the new right internet bro media is not in support of deporting the Islamist or cracking down on the Jew harrassment on campus. They are playing the there should be absolute free speech card.
Lee Smith is perhaps one of our most important foreign policy analysts. Along with Park, Tony Badran, Gadi Taub, VDH, and others, no one connects the dots like Lee and colleagues. Thanks Tablet for the best reads on the web!
Khalil ran afoul of US immigration law, not the First Amendment, and can legally be deported solely on national security grounds - regardless of if he actually broke any laws.
However - however - the Red-Green Alliance loves a martyr, and the Trump administration is giving them one.
I sincerely hope the government can produce evidence that definitively links Khalil either to a listed terrorist group or to blatantly illegal activity, to put to rest the notion that this is a First Amendment violation.
Think about the precedent this case sets - can you imagine a future Democratic administration deporting an Israeli Green Card holder due to prior IDF service, under the same pretext of national security?
The way things are going on the left, the Dems would do that anyway. I doubt they need a precedent.
Lee Smith is 100% correct that in this administration Trump sets the tone and not isolationists on the right
Well, in my reading, I focus a lot about Israel and Jewish matters, Lee Smith article open my eyes to the China connection and all of the webs of deceit in education and media that so many gullible westerners believe.
Every time I see those JV for Palestine "Jews" it raises my anger and Blood pressure levels. Can you imagine a bunch of Muslim young adults marching, screaming and getting arrested for a Jewish cause??
The Scroll is such a great read!! Keep it up. So good.
Lee Smith, as always, provides a very interesting perspective on recent events.
Koch is a private company so I have no ability to pull a 10K and look for its exposure to China myself.
I have to take Lee‘s word for it, which is what I will do.
There are anti semites behind every door.
Seeking to prop up Iran and destroy Israel.
I’m glad that the right voices resonated with Trump to derail this appointment.
The daily Intel briefing is really important.
Here’s what you may be overlooking?
Perhaps the Scroll/Tablet is infected with cognitive dissonance to levels that they’re unable to “see” the connective tissue between UK’s (our mother country!) Online Security Act going after citizens there for Islamophobic wrong-speech, and Trump’s ‘Catch & Revoke’ Executive Order that if pushed forward - says it will go after online ‘antisemitism’ by student visa holders and non-citizens.
Khalil (while a dirtbag) could be the pretext or ‘icon’ for Trump doing this on broader scale. And if so, that is to be pushed back on, hard. And I state that coming from the right side of the aisle.
IMO, we should all oppose our Federal government having citizens consent to use police powers to go after ‘hate speech’, no matter if it’s anti-Islam or anti-Judaic. Let’s not normalize that.
Because some day, the Federal government will change ideological hands. And then all those ready to hang and quarter Khalil will be given a mirror to gaze into when it’s their ‘hate speech’ that is criminalized.
It’s a banana peel that we can all too easily slip on, and then down the slope we all go.
Like Paul Simon said, slip sliding away. Away, away. No more threatening students of a different faith. Especially no more harassment of Jews. Been there, done that. The UK is a crockpot full of Islamic hate and I want none of it. They can't protect little girls. They can't protect women. They can't protect MP's from being murdered. Yet they have a lot to say about the American voters choice for President. No returning to brain dead leaders please. Deport Kahlil. Sooner the better.
Well said.
I am confident that when Khalil is deported by the Secretary of State under immigration law and if Trump should try to silence the free speech of a US Citizen in the future that Justice will be served to such individual following first amendment principals and relevant case law. Just look at the outcry for this asshole using free speech as the basis. I can’t imagine the populous ignoring the first amendment when it actually does apply.
I certainly hope so, Brian. But I’d rather not hope. Which is why I’m skeptical of government in this case. And why I find myself having to defend this scumbag. It’s no fun to do so. I guess I’m just old enough to see how history can change, and when there’s anti-liberty tools normalized, opposing administrations to my values can & will use. I regret for example not speaking out against the Patriot Act when it came down, as I believe that stripped/chipped away at our freedoms — such as warrants & wiretaps by secret courts, FISA court authorized electronic monitoring and FBI secret gathering of financial/telecommunications records deemed ‘relevant’ to government investigations. That’s a stain Bush left us. Will Trump leave us w/ a similar one, w/ both sold as necessary for the ‘protection of national security’?
We saw what happens when people allow censorship. Deporting Kahlil is not censorship. It is putting out an out of control wildfire before it spreads. See the violence as it spreads across the UK, as listed abive, see the thousands of damaged girls by Muslims in the UK. That should.not.be.protected. it should be exposed for the live threat it is. The abuse of Government, whose job it is to protect its citizens, is already upon us. Stopping this "scumbag" closes an already opened door. Entry, greencard, Visa are not the same as citizenship. Citizenship is earned.
I understand and share your concern.
But look at it this way.
If the Secretary of State is correct, and Khalil is deported.
This will have zero effect on jurisprudence as it applies to US Citizens.
The case only applies to those engaged in process of applying for citizenship.
There are a few categories, green card is but one.
That’s not 330 million people, but a much much smaller group of people.
Most of which come here to seek the American dream, not looking to engage in a psyop to disrupt the relationship between the US and a foreign state.
I really do want to look at it the way you describe. Maybe in time I will. My trust in government is fairly low, especially after lie of Iraq & then Covid. And a bit alarmed by the government suppression I see in EU, coming to our shores.
It is appropriate for you to be skeptical and open minded at the same time. Honestly, my way of looking at it gives me hope. Everywhere I turn, I see Islam spreading as it did during the 7th century, 12th century and today in Western Europe, which is toast. The US is the current battlefield for this fight and I fear that the infiltration into US society over the past two decades by those who seek to destroy us is very close to flipping the scales against us. The size of it is massive and frightening. The global progressive left is lying down its sword at the feet of their profit.
It’s already happening at alarming rates:
https://x.com/AmyMek/status/1898649454632476770
Do you really think Kahlil was arrested because he has a differing opinion than President Trump? If that was actually the case that would be terrifying, but it is not. Have you forgotten what has been happening at Columbia U? Hamas is a terror organization. Have you forgotten the Bibas family? The hostage taking of a family and the MURDER of a mom and her two babies? Now if the Government of USA was going to hold Kahlil underground in starvation, murder his pregnant wife and dance around in celebration of the dead bodies, I'd say there was room for moral dilemma. There is not. There is no room for Hamas here.
Quite right. The question of whether it is Constitutional is a tricky one – as with many of Trump’s novel schemes, the legal loophole does seem to exist but has been ignored for so long that there is very little case law to review for precedent. What is unequivocally correct is that this can of worms, once opened, will lead to dramatically worse outcomes for all of us as a populace. The parallel you mention with the overbearing European view of personal expression is exactly right.
Those who are so full of righteous indignation, might need to look more closely at the specifics. Circus it is.
I heard Khalil was trained at SIPA when Victoria Nuland was a professor. It seems he could be 5 eyes, MI5-CIA. It's possible we paid him for those protests
I see we have progressed from defending the tariffs as a negotiation tactic to claiming that they will punish China and immediately revitalize the heartland. Glad to hear that, in the weighty opinion of The Scroll, there are apparently no downsides to repeatedly punching ourselves in the face simply to spite the CCP.