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Is Mahmoud Khalil the new Emma Goldman?

JL;DR SUMMARY The article compares Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student, to Emma Goldman, a prominent anarchist figure from Jewish Russian origin, highlighting similarities in their legal struggles and public perceptions in the U.S. Khalil's recent high-profile arrest by the Trump administration mirrors the Palmer Raids of 1919-1920, where radicals, many of whom were Jewish immigrants, were deported under suspicions of foreign threats. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryTrump AdministrationDeportationXenophobiaImmigrantsEspionage ActEmma GoldmanPalmer RaidsMahmoud KhalilLegal Residency

Places mentioned

Rochester, New York, United States
"only to find herself working 10 hours a day in a grueling Rochester, NY sweatshop"
New York City, New York, United States
"Moving to New York City, she burst into the hothouse of migr political life in 1887"
Russian Federation
"Goldman personified the fears many Americans harbored about the widespread enthusiasm Jewish Eastern European immigrants showed for the Bolshevik Revolution, which had only recently seized power in Russia"
New York, United States
"with unemployment at more than 20%, undercover agents charged Goldman with inciting a crowd of more than 3,000 during a rally in Union Square by ordering them to take everythingby force!"
Homestead, Florida, United States
"Together with Alexander Berkman, a fellow anarchist who became her lover, she plotted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick, the manager of a steel plant in Homestead, Penn."
Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation
"Emma Goldman, the famous anarchist leader, was expelled and shipped off with 249 others in one boat en masse to Russia in 1919"
United States
"American Jews have come far since the Palmer Raids of 1919-1920, led by President Woodrow Wilsons attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer."
Israel
"Khalil, a 30-year-old Palestinian graduate student from Algeria, helped lead Columbia Universitys student encampment protests against Israel last year."

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