Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana. pic.twitter.com/QeQQQfX2Zr
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“I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear,” Khalil wrote.
“My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the US has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention,” he said.
Khalil described being born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and noted his current circumstances have “similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention – imprisonment without trial or charge – to strip Palestinians of their rights”.
