Georgetown Postdoc the Latest to Be Detained by ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27426620

Archit and Murtaza Hussain Mar 19

"Suri's arrest comes after an exceptionally public media campaign targeting his wife, Mapheze Saleh, by pro-Israel groups. Saleh, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian background, is the daughter of Ahmed Yousef, a former political advisor to the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, after the group gained control there in 2006. Yousef has been a writer and commentator on Hamas in recent years for major Western media publications, including the New York Times and The Guardian."