Your twenty-four hours aren't the same as mine

[sovay]

I wrote a rather more restrained letter than I felt when signing CAIR's petition to my members of Congress to intervene for the release of Mahmoud Khalil. I did not use profanity or recall the Palmer Raids. I did invoke American ideals and identify myself as a Jew, since the notion that I should thus cheer the stripping of civil liberties on the grounds of pro-Palestinian activism is revolting and at least two ways racist. I hope the federal order to halt his deportation is effective. This country became something of a specialist in the vanishing of detainees in my lifetime and the Overton window has these jagged holes punched in it.

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[sabotabby]

Thank you for doing this.

[sovay]

Thank you for doing this.

Thank you. I hope it works. I left messages with the offices of both of my senators further encouraging them to speak out and a message with the office of my representative thanking her for having done so. It feels a yardstick of the national fuckery that there is any hesitation about standing up for minimal constitutional rights.