The NY-YCL stands with Mahmoud Khalil!
With the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the Trump administration violently moves to its next phase of fascist counter-revolution: disappearance, detention, and deportation.
Accompanying this explicit political repression, the United States has admitted that Mahmoud Khalil has not committed any crime. Instead, it has invoked the McCarthyist “Immigration and Nationality Act” of 1952 in an attempt to suppress the growing revolutionary consciousness among students and youth.
The New York Young Communist League stands with Mahmoud Khalil whose courageous work embodies the revolutionary movement’s opposition to apartheid, genocide, and settler colonialism. This movement has worked tirelessly toward the disruption of material support to the Zionist regime of “Israel,” the rallying of our respective communities to the Palestinian cause, and solidarity with the Palestinian resistance fighters protecting their people from settlers’ aims of extermination and replacement.
The state violence against Mahmoud Khalil signals a dangerous escalation in the fascist offensive that will attempt to strip us of our rights and dehumanize our communities. The White House states that Mahmoud Khalil’s anti-colonial activity is contrary to the foreign policy of the United States. This assault, the “first of many to come” announced by Trump, will be broadened to include those sectors of the movement that continue to pose a threat to the United States’ genocidal ambitions at home and abroad. This repression has already spread to other visa or green card holders such as Rasha Alawieh and Fabian Schmidt. They have rigorously declared war on every member of our communities, whether or not they label us as “criminals” or as “undocumented.”
The fascists in power forget that our communities, in concert with the masses of the world, have continuously been victorious in our struggle against them. We must mobilize our communities further in preparation. This includes our schools, religious spaces, community centers, labor unions, social groups, and all other places of person-to-person interaction. There is no more room to avoid the discomfort of politicizing otherwise “neutral” spaces. This is where we have garnered our strength and it will be here that we continue our revolutionary movement.
Robert Burke, expelled from Columbia University in 1936 for protesting its Nazi collaboration, lived to see the fall of fascism and Nazi Germany.
So too must Mahmoud Khalil and all Palestinians come to witness the fall of Zionism andthe liberation of Palestine!
New York Young Communist League
March 17th, 2025
