If you let Israel kill freedom of speech for people who are here legally, that means you're killing it for US citizens. Even if you don't care about immigrants, that means you're killing it for US citizens on behalf of a foreign government. [00:00:15] Federal judge earlier today ordered the U.S. Government to finally free former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from the immigrant detention center, where he's been held since early March. This is U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz, who said it was highly, [00:00:30] highly unusual for the government to continue to detain a legal U.S. Resident who was unlikely to flee and hadn't been accused of any violence. He said Khalil is likely not a flight risk and, quote, is not a danger to the community. Period. Full stop. And to be clear, he has not just not been accused of any violence. [00:00:48] He hasn't been accused of any crimes. The official line from the government is they find the positions he has on the genocide so distasteful that he has to be locked up. For months he has been locked up in jail for almost four months because Trump [00:01:06] doesn't like his position on the war. That's it. His his positions are so crucially politically incorrect that he had to be locked up and kept away from the public because he might infect them with his anti-war positions. In any event, this comes after several other scholars [00:01:23] have been targeted for their activism. They've also been released. But earlier than Mahmoud Khalil, who was the first who was seized, during this spate of censorship. You have former Palestinian student at Columbia, Mohsen Badawi, a Tufts University student, Rumaisa Öztürk, [00:01:39] and a Georgetown University scholar, Bader Khonsari, who all were detained and were all were ordered to be released. And obviously, Khalil finally being released, was seen as good news by his wife, who has been, you know, away from her partner for a third of [00:01:56] a year now for absolutely nothing. She says we know this ruling does not begin to address the injustices the Trump administration has brought upon her family and so many others. But today we are celebrating Mahmoud coming back to New York [00:02:11] to be reunited with our little family. And that is good news. Assuming the Trump administration actually abides by the ruling, we'll have to see. Yeah, John, the only bone I have to pick with you is your headline was a little wrong. It's, Israeli hostage released inside America. [00:02:29] So, it was, donors who want, America to serve Israel, that ordered the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. There's no other reason to arrest him. And this judge, by the way, if you think. Oh, biased liberal judge. No, he's the one that said it in the first round. [00:02:44] No, they have a right to detain him and deport him if they can prove their case. So at the time people were like, oh, maybe he's a pro Trump judge, right. No. He's like, no, you got to show me the evidence. So they bring him in and he's like, okay, give me evidence of any violent act he did. Oh, we don't have any okay. How about property destruction? [00:03:01] We don't have any okay. How about any crime Cry. We don't have any. So then why the hell did you arrest them? And they're like, it could be that maybe there was a problem on his visa. Yeah, but what do you mean? Maybe there was a problem with his visa. [00:03:17] Is there a problem with his visa? We're not going to present any evidence. He's like, well, then. Yeah, if you arrest a guy for absolutely no reason. Yes, you have to release him. That's our laws in America. It's not complicated. This is like the easiest case he's ever had to deal with. [00:03:33] When the government presents zero evidence of any crime. No, you can't keep him. But the government says. But to be fair, he has criticized beloved Israel. And remember when we burned our Constitution and got rid of the First Amendment or actually just crossed it out? [00:03:50] You have freedom of speech unless you criticize Israel, in which case you'll be locked up because AIPAC gave hundreds of millions of dollars to our congresspeople and to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But to be fair to Biden, he didn't do this. [00:04:05] And he wouldn't, as terrible as Biden was, as he was an enabler of genocide and paid for genocide, he didn't go the extra mile of saying, I'll end freedom of speech in America on behalf of Israel. That was Donald Trump. So thank God for the American court system. [00:04:21] Thank God we're a democracy and a constitutional republic. So the judge said, no, you have to let that Israeli hostage go. He didn't do anything wrong. And yes, he does have freedom of speech in America. Trey. Yeah, I mean, this, you know, at least he finally is getting out. [00:04:38] But the fact that this can happen and can last this long. I mean, he spent months in there for literally nothing. It should be alarming to everybody. I mean, I, I get cheeky sometimes and joke about how like, oh yeah, you know, I'm gonna end up in the gulag one day if this keeps up or whatever. And it's like, obviously it's a little different. [00:04:53] I'm a white guy from Tennessee, but still, like, I mean, they really have ripped up the Constitution to make political prisoners out of people who say things that they don't like. And there's people, you know, I guarantee you there's plenty of people who would tell you they are, in part Trump supporters because you know what? [00:05:10] Their free speech absolutist and that whole argument who yet will twist themselves into knots trying to justify this or or or just ignoring it and pretending it doesn't happen. But this is like this type of thing is is scary. It's the type of thing you should, you would hope wouldn't be imaginable in [00:05:29] this country if it actually worked the way it purports to. And clearly it doesn't. And in particular under this regime. So again, so ultimately, at least so far, unless they just, you know, decide to ignore this or do something even worse. [00:05:44] Seems like the right thing happened at the end of the day at least. But it took way too long and should have never even, you know, needed to happen in the first place. So it's bad. Yeah, and Mahmoud Khalil and his family should sue this government of Israel. [00:05:59] Yes. You're allowed to sue terrorist organizations, to get compensation. And Israel, you know, having destroyed almost every hospital in Gaza, having destroyed almost everything in Gaza, having murdered 50, 000 over 50,000 people, having murdered over 17,000 kids is obviously a terrorist [00:06:16] state, and they have intentionally murdered those people. And we've shown it time and again and again and again. And now they're coming to kidnap people on our streets through our corrupt dirtbag politicians. And so Trump should be sued. [00:06:31] And if you're MAGA, you're like, oh yeah, yeah, I'm a free speech absolutist like Trey said, but he's an immigrant. Oh, I hate immigrants. So let's just get rid of our freedom of speech. The freedom of speech is for America. Everyone in America, the Supreme Court has ruled that for 200 years straight, [00:06:46] if you let Israel kill freedom of speech for people who are here legally, that means you are killing it. For us citizens, even if you don't care about immigrants, that means you're killing it for US citizens on behalf of a foreign government. [00:07:02] Okay. Now, if you don't get that and you say no, he shouldn't be allowed to criticize Israel. No, Israel should rule us, and Israel should be allowed to kidnap anyone they like off an American street for criticizing beloved Israel. Are you criticizing a genocide? [00:07:18] It's like the Germans having us arrest people who are opposed to the Holocaust here in America. Oh, he criticized the German government. He criticized the German government. He has no business here. Lock him up. But did he do anything wrong? No, but he criticized the Germans. I mean, all they're doing is a holocaust. [00:07:34] Oh, my God, are you offended? Are you offended? I'm 10,000 times more offended at the 17,000 dead Palestinian kids. But no, I know mustering up. No, I care. I care about the Palestinians who died, I care. [00:07:50] I mean, I don't care as much as you offending me. Your words are problematic. Let's lock them up. Let's lock them up. Let's go, let's go. Israel, take more hostages in America. Thank God the courts are stopping it. And so, Trump's total and utter joke on freedom of speech and America first. [00:08:08] That guy didn't even criticize America. And by the way, no one's gotten arrested for criticizing America. You can criticize America all day, all night as, by the way, you should be allowed to. Freedom of speech. But you criticize Israel. You're going to be in a lot of trouble in this country. [00:08:23] This is insanity. I didn't my family moved here. We didn't move to Israel. We moved here because we love America. If we knew that it was going to be controlled by Israel, I don't know that we like. [00:08:39] Is it are we telling everybody that this is America? But our politicians all work for Israel? God damn it, man, if you're America first, you should hate this more than anyone else. For God's sake, man, kidnaping people off the streets [00:08:54] for criticizing a foreign government. Imagine if we did this for any other country. Oh. That guy criticized Saudi Arabia. Well, I mean, Saudi Arabia chopped up an American journalist, right? That's it. It's Saudi Arabia is not giving money to Trump or Biden or whoever. [00:09:10] And to all our corrupt crooks like Ted Cruz, etc.. That's it. Round up all the Saudi critics, you'd say, that's insanity. Are you crazy? We're going to round up Saudi critics. And you wouldn't say, well, oh, he's an immigrant. He's a legal resident here, but he's an immigrant. So let's make sure we lock him, take him hostage for Saudi Arabia. [00:09:26] Nobody would say that. Why are we having a conversation about it with Israel? Can we please stop following the orders of Israel? Is that too much to ask for? And if you say they're not giving us orders, you're hilarious. Hilarious? [00:09:42] No. I know this guy was attacking Norway, right? It was about health care. It was about Peru. Who was. What was it about? - Harsh words for Switzerland. - Yeah. Why did Erster get arrested? Oh, she wrote an op ed. Against who? Against who? [00:09:58] Oh, Israel. Oh, but don't say Israel. Don't say Israel. I'm saying it. They pay our politicians. Our politicians are crooks and work for a foreign government. 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