The American Communist Party strongly condemns the dangerous precedent established by the Trump administration’s attempt to deport student and green-card holder Mahmoud Khalil over their views on the Palestinian conflict.

Under the pretext of claiming Khalil “led activities aligned with Hamas,” Khalil has been arrested and detained by ICE. This language purposefully attempts to convey the message that Khalil violated federal laws surrounding material support for Foreign Terrorist Organizations. In actual fact, Khalil merely expressed his own views about the Palestinian conflict which had no material connection to Hamas whatsoever.

It is necessary for all freedom-loving and independent-minded Americans to ask themselves: How long before such flagrant violations of the First Amendment are applied to US citizens themselves?

It is clear that vindictive Zionists have brazenly and boastfully hijacked the office of government in order to punish critics of the Zionist entity — without why regard for our constitution and our values as Americans.

For years, the Democratic Party weaponized the state to silence critics of the Kiev government and trampled underfoot the constitutional liberties which serve as the foundation of our governments legitimacy. Trump ran on a mandate to restore the free speech rights and liberties of US citizens. Now it seems the same treatment is being given to critics of Zionism.

We call upon all independent citizens regardless of their affiliation to stand against the Zionist agenda to usurp our constitutionally enumerated rights and liberties. Americans must come together to defend our sovereignty and our rights as a free people, a duty that goes beyond ideologies and opinions.

This weaponization of federal agencies to settle ideological scores is brazen, reckless, arbitrary, and devoid of rhyme or reason. It sets a very dangerous precedent for arbitrarily silencing all critics of the regime and the system in general.