Progressive Politics

3549 readers

206 users here now

Welcome to Progressive Politics! A place for news updates and political discussion from a left perspective. Conservatives and centrists are welcome just try and keep it civil :)

(Sidebar still a work in progress post recommendations if you have them such as reading lists)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world

Turkish student who criticized Israel can resume research at Tufts after visa revoked, judge rules (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 2 hours ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she deals with the consequences of having her visa revoked by the Trump administration, leading to six weeks of detention.

The arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student studying children’s relationship to social media, was among the first as the Trump administration began targeting foreign-born students and activists involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy. She had co-authored an op-ed criticizing her university’s response to Israel and the war in Gaza. Caught on video in March outside her Somerville residence, immigration enforcement officers took her away in an unmarked vehicle.

Öztürk has been out of a Louisiana immigrant detention center since May and back on the Tufts campus. But she’s been unable to teach or participate in research as part of her studies because of the termination of her record in the government’s database of foreign students studying temporarily in the US.

top 3 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This is the type of shit that people with working brains were telling terminally online lefties about prior to their mass surrender to fascism.

Internal resistance to Israel in the US was suppressed under the Dems.

Its becoming outlawed under Trump, and where he fails to criminalize it he just ignores the law and further works to criminalize it.

The internal resistance to Israel within the US has never been in a weaker position, which wouldn't have been the case if Kamala had won. Not to mention the Dem party holds the vast majority of anti-genocide advocates in power, even if the establishment DNC is pro-genocode.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 21 minutes ago (1 children)

Biden was mashing in students skulls what are you on about

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

Local law enforcement was bashing in student's skulls as per usual under Biden

An outright federally orchestrated effort to blatantly criminalize opposition to Israel is taking place in the US, while the perpetrators are also orchestrating the collapse of law and accountability of leadership so they can get away with it.

Context matters.