Skip to main content

Donziger on Justice

Extremist pro-Israel groups like Betar and Canary Mission are serving as the de facto US arm of the Netanyahu government to attack students who call out Israel’s atrocities. They act as a Stasi-like secret spy network — sort of like agents of the Mossad in the United States, although they are not formally a part of the spy agency.

The court process to obtain release can take months and months with uncertain results; essentially, the process becomes the punishment. This is what happened on March 8 to the distinguished grad student and diplomat Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia, when he was arrested at his university-owned apartment building near the Columbia campus. It happened to Georgetown doctoral student Badar Khan Suri.