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Mahdawi allegedly supports Hamas. Hamas is officially designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the State Departmemt. This designation means that
by firesteelrain 2y ago
Mahdawi allegedly supports Hamas. Hamas is officially designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the State Departmemt. This designation means that providing material support to Hamas is a federal crime under US law. Green card holders or anyone in the US can face serious legal and immigration consequences for any form of support or affiliation with Hamas.
- skyyler 2y agoThere has been a concerted effort to conflate support for Palestinian liberation as the same as support for Hamas. Combined with the successful efforts to make it illegal to boycott Israeli products or companies, it's a grim situation.
- mplanchard 2y agoReal question: is there any precedent that simple speech constitutes material support? I don’t particularly think it applies to this case, tbh, given that his actions were focused on Palestine, not on Hamas, but I am curious if there’s any existing legal basis for the claim that someone could be convicted of such material support simply for saying, for example, that the IRA wasn’t unreasonable given the situation at the time.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoHow does he support Hamas? Does nonviolently supporting the Palestinian people, wanting to learn more about Israelis and find common ground, openly advocate for non-violent solutions as your religion (for him Buddhism) is a nonviolent one (in his words at least). What part of that is Hamas-like to you? Meanwhile an American citizen can actually sign up for and fight in a foreign army, commit war crimes there, and come back here happy as a clam. Insane world we live in.