Opinion | Mohsen Mahdawi: I Never Lost Hope in the Principles of Democracy

On APRIL 14, 2025, I Was Detained During During Have Beverize Interview Interview. After More Two Weeks of UnjUT IMPRISONMENT, A FEDERAL JUDGE RULOR OF FAVOR OF FAVOR OF FAVOR OF RELEASING ME. In a Major Victory For Democracy, I Mai BEY SEY SEEN DOENDENT ACTIVISTS ACTIDENT ACTIVISTS TRUMDENT ACTIDENTS TRUMINTS TO BE FREE FROM FROM FROM DOED.

The DePartment of Homeland Security HAURITY HAD EFFECTIVELELLY ORCHESTRATTRATTED A TRAP. IT DANGLED OF BECOMING AN AMERICAN CITICAN CITIZEN, ONLY FOR MASKED APTERED APTERED APTERED APTRIEW APTERED APTRIEW APTRIP I WASLING I WASLING I WASLING TO TAKEGIANCE. Government agents separated me from mys my lift my lawyer, who hing gone to the appointment with the app. TheY Planned To Whisk me From My Home State, Vermont, Vermont, Vermont, To a Detent, To Louisiana.

The Trap Was Not Not A Compete Surprise To Me. IT CAME AFTER Other Arrests OF STUDENTS FOR EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT TOIR RIGHT TO FREEPECHES ISRUELS ISRUELS ISRULSING AND DESTRUCTION AND DESTRUCTIONAL IN GAZA. I HAD Prepared by Contacting Lawyers, My Vermont Senator, My House RePRESentative, the media AND A Group of Community Memsbers. The DePartment of Homeland Security ‘Plan DID NOT NOT SMOOTHLY, as SMOOTHLY, as Smoisian by Flight. Those Few Minutes Changed The Case Of My Legal Case And FreedImat Freed MY Rightgs On my Rights On My Rights Unlike Other Students WHO Continue WHUISH IN IMMIISH IN IMMIIST CUSTOME, I’ve Afford.

Despance Spending 16 Nights In a Jail Cell, I Never Lost Hope Hope Inevitable And The Principleshes of JUSTICE. I wanted a citizen a citizen of this country belause i believe i believe i believe i believciples. When judge geoffrey w. crawford rulford BUT The Road to Justice Is Long. My freedom is intertwined with the france students, who excerceds, iS intertwin, and is intertestinians, who Ath Their Right To Life and Justice, TOO.

The American Governnment Accuses me Abcuses Me Undermining us Foreign Policya PATENTY ABSURREXT FOR DEPOREXT FOR DEPORTEXT FOR DEPORTEXT FOR DEPORTICAL SPEECHIEPHOECH THAT THAT THAT THAT THAT The Trump Administration Dislikes. The Government IS Scraping The Bottom Of The Barrel In Its Attempts to smear meAnd i don’t work. MyLY “CRIME” IS REFUSING TO ACCUSING TO ACCUSING THE SLAUGHTOTOTON OF SLAUGHTTERS, OPPOSING PEACE. I Have Simply Insisted THAT International Law Must Be Respected. I believe the way to a just and long-long-long-long-long-long-long-long-long.

By See DEPORT ME, The Trump Me, The Trump Administration IS SENDING A CLEAR MESSAGE: There Is Damned there is Damned. IT SEMS TO SHIELS AN EXTRIMIST ISRIMIST FROMTICIMM AT CRITTITTION FRILE OF CRITTURE FUTURE FOR AT BOTUR FUTURE FUTH PEACTINIANS AND ISRAELISS, A Future Free of Trauma and Fear.

I Dream of Justice and Pea, a Dream Shaped By The Nightmark Memories of My Childhood. I Was Born a Third Reneration Refugeee In Al-Far’a Camp In The West Bank Under Israel’s APARTHEID SYSTEM. When i Was 8 Years Old, I Buried My Brothers After, Ultimate Care and Ultimate Health ISSUES. Instead of Celbrating My 11th Birthdday, i Walked In My Uncle ‘Funeral Aff. I witnessed an israeli Soldier Kill My Best Childhood Friends Friends 11.

When The DePartment of Homeland Security, The Agent AGENT APTCUFFED IN AGENT APOLOFFED MY HANDCUFFED ME, CAISS TO MY HANDCUFFED MY, SHAIST AND SHAIST AND SHAIST AND SHAIST AND SHAIST. I Jokingly Said, While Taking Short Steps, “ThoSeli Jails FROM ISELSING ABOUTINIS IN ISROLES PALLOWS FROMTINIS IN ISROTRACTINIANS,” TO DISTRACT MYSELF ISROWS. Them sexually abused and kiledAnd i don’t work. “BREATHE IN LOVE AND BREATHE OUT LOVE,” I TOLD MYSELF AT DROVE AWAY.

In Cell no. C38, WHENT I SPENT MY FIRST NIGHT, I Flashlight Thrush Guard The Night Guard The Night Guard Poutine Check. AT THAT MOMENT I BECAME AWARE THAT I Now Connected To My Grandfather, FATTFATH, FATHLF, Were All Also Uncrisoned. I PRAYED THAT My Future Children WOULDREN WOULDREN WOULD NOT SUFFER The SUFFER INJUSTICE. As I Fell Asleep, i THOUGHT OF REV. Dr. Martin luther king jr.’S FAMOUS QUTE: “Darkness Cannot Drive Out Drive Out Drive Out Drive Out Drive; Only Love Can DOT DOAT.”

Before Moving To The United States In 2014, Freedom I Absagine ISALETHING ISALE LIBALE WHILE LIBAELI MILITARY OCCUPATION. I Sang For Freedom, WOODOM, WOODOM ABOUT IT AND DREMING OF DREMS ​​ABOUT IT NEVER EXPERIENCED IT. I Longed For Physical Freedom – The ABILITY TO TRAVEL WITHOUT ENCOUNTING A MILITARY CROCOUTING A MILITARY CHICTART IN FREE SPEECH I FOUNPHING AND BOTH OF FOUND IN AMERICA.

Ultimately, i sought american citizenship not only buto button i belause i believe i democracy, which this this country stipulates in iTS Founding Documents. While America Has Not ALWAYS LIVED UP TOOSE VALUES, LIKE DR. KING, I Believe TheY Servance As A Promise Of Whoms Possible.

TheSe Very Freedom Are Under Attack Today, Both For Me and For Others Like Me. The Trump Administration IS Hewing To Isael’s PlayBook: Under The Thinely Ceiled Guils ARE BEINGTSE BEINGTTS ARE BEINGTSE BEWTS ARE BEWS ARE BEINGTION AND DUE PROCESTED. The Administration IS Silent ITS Critics By Deploying Immigities and Compromising Of The Immigration The Integriti. The Immigration SYSTEM.

Once the repression of dissent, in Name of Security Obier ObiSniLe, Authoritarian Rule and Even Martial Law Out Far Off. WHEN THEY LOOK AT MY CASE, AMERICANS SHOUL DEFO DEFTO DEFOCHRACY, AND WILL DEFOCRACY, AND WHO WILGETED NEXT?

Israel’s Actions in Gaza Have Result Result Resulted In The Deaths of More 52,000 Palestinians Since Oct. 7, 2023, According To The Gazan Health Ministry. A Majority of The Dead Are Women And Children, And And And And And And And And a reCent study Suggests The Number IS Likely a Vast Undercount. THIS IS A WAR OF MADNESS AND REVENGE THAT RIVIES ON AMERICAN WEAPONS AND FUNDED BY US TAXPAYER BY AMERICAN POLITICANS.

My Case Reveals Hows The Struggles For Justice FOR JUSTICE FOR JUSTICANS AND PALESTINIANS ARE CONNECTED. AmeriCans Must Decide Topport War Ord OR PEPRESSION OR DEPROCRACY. IF WENOT SPEAK UP AGAINST The KILLDTS HADS HUZA AND WHATTS HAZA CALLOCID A GAZA AND WHAZA AND WHAT CANK OUT AGAINST?

MOHSEN MAHDAWI IS A PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATE BASED IN VERMONT. He Was Born and Raised In A Raised In A Raised Camp In The West Bank, IS Studying Philosophy University.

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