Nobody has a problem with the fact that Mahmoud Khalil’s case has received public attention (if it comes to pass that he wasn’t in violation of his visa conditions by endorsing and espousing FTO terrorists). It’s what doesn’t receive public attention that instills in people a sense of unease. Your actions tell us what your values are, as much as your silence. You hate war and you protested against it, didn’t you? You support free speech and you protested for it, didn’t you? You’re against deportation and you protested against it, didn’t you? You wanted a ceasefire and protested for it, didn’t you? You started a viral campaign for Rafah online, didn’t you? That said, what should we make of your silence? Where was your outrage when the Bibas babies were choked to death by the bare hands of terrorists? Where was your outrage when Alawite Muslims, Christians, and Kurds were being massacred in Syria? Where was your outrage when Iranians were being lynched from cranes? Where was your outrage when Afghan women were forced to cover their faces? Where was your outrage when Congolese Christians were beheaded? If you say your outrage is reserved only for domestic issues, fine, where was your outrage for the 16 months that Jewish students faced so much harassment and discrimination on campuses that federal agencies had to create a task force to intervene? Where was your outrage when Kippah-wearing students were spat on, chased off campus, blocked from attending classes, told to go back to Poland, and campus leaders pledged to “kill all Zionists”? Where was your outrage when protestors were chanting “Hamas Hamas, we love you, we support your rockets too”? How about “globalize the intifada” or “long live the resistance,” who had just massacred Americans in tunnels? If you had been outraged by all of this, I promise you, your outrage today would offend nobody. We would’ve just labeled you the “constantly outraged,” which isn’t a bad thing, but to be selectively outraged tells us where you place your values. If your customized silence has taught us anything, it’s that those values are not—contrary to the claim—the “protection of all vulnerable communities.” Instead, just the protection of ideologies and narratives that serve your political objectives. This is not “humanity.”
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