After a pro-Hamas activist was recently arrested in Massachusetts for various acts of vandalism, his mommy complained that he’s innocent and just “being punished for his views on Gaza.”
Jermaiah Sawaqed was nabbed over a week ago for allegedly vandalizing the Massachusetts State House, George Washington Monument, and MIT Stata Center, according to WCVB.
Sawaqed, who’s “associated” with the “extreme anti-Zionist” group Direct Action Movement for Palestinian Liberation, was charged with vandalism, destruction of property, vandalizing a war or veterans memorial, and “possession, transportation or use of a hoax device or substance.”
But Sawaqed’s mom said her son “does not belong to any group,” and claimed there is no evidence regarding his relationship with DAMPL. She also said Sawaqed simply was targeted for his online criticisms of Israel.
Hilariously, according to court documents, mommy also was arrested for spitting on a cop during the execution of a search warrant on her (and Sawaqed’s) home. No doubt she’ll assert hocking a loogie on a police officer’s face is protected by the First Amendment.
And why not? This has been pro-Hamas activists’ M.O. for years now.
After all, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, aka CAIR, said it was “an attack on free speech” when the activists who broke into and occupied the Stanford University president’s office were charged with crimes: “Instead of listening to [activists’] demands for justice and accountability, our institutions have chosen repression,” CAIR’s Zahra Billoo said.
At Harvard, one of its librarians justified tearing down posters of children either taken hostage or killed by Hamas with the justification that libraries “are not neutral” and “neutrality creates a chilling effect and facilitates the suppression of dissenting voices by mainstream ones.”
And students at Columbia started a petition to rehire a professor who was dismissed for posting “I’m with Hamas & Hezbollah & Islamic Jihad” on October 8, 2023 — the day after Hamas’ slaughter of over 1,000 Israelis — claiming he was a victim of the “McCarthyist backlash against pro-Palestinian speech.”
(Imagine if a professor had written “I’m with the KKK” or “I’m with the Nazi Party.”)
Read the full article at The College Fix.
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