/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

U.S. Government and Private Groups Coordinated to Target Palestinian Student Activists, FOIA Filing Alleges

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has filed a sweeping Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-American and lawful permanent resident who has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since March 8, 2025. The filing accuses federal agencies of colluding with private anti-Palestinian organizations to detain and deport student activists engaged in pro-Palestine advocacy, and seeks records from the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, State, and ICE.

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The Alleged Role of Private Anti-Palestinian Groups

The FOIA request names over a dozen groups accused of coordinating to surveil, doxx, and target pro-Palestine students—often focusing on noncitizens—in an effort to trigger deportation. The groups include:

➤ Betar USA: A militant Zionist group that created a “deport list” of student activists, including Khalil.

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Didn't update this when it happened, but Mahmoud Khalil was released and is currently suing the Trump administration for tihs:

Mahmoud Khalil suing Trump admin for ‘politically motivated arrest, detention’
Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student who was detained as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestine advocacy in the US, is seeking $20m “to help others similarly targeted”, his lawyers say.

“He would accept, in lieu of payment, an official apology and abandonment of the administration’s unconstitutional policy”, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) said in a statement announcing the soon-to-be-filed lawsuit.

Khalil, who was released in June after more than three months in detention, was the first known activist to be detained and have his legal immigration status revoked by the Trump administration over involvement in student protests in support of Gaza.

“Nothing can restore the 104 days stolen from me. The trauma, the separation from my wife, the birth of my first child that I was forced to miss”, Khalil said in the CCR statement.

“There must be accountability for political retaliation and abuse of power. And I won’t stop here. I will continue to pursue justice against everyone who contributed to my unlawful detention or spread lies in an attempt to destroy my reputation, including those affiliated with Columbia University”, he said.

“I’m holding the US government accountable not just for myself, but for everyone they try to silence through fear, exile, or detention”.

https://aje.io/wl6n6h?update=3831114

Judge questions ICE over Turkish PhD student targeted for Pro-Palestine speech
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A US federal judge sharply questioned the Trump administration’s continued refusal to restore the student status of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish PhD candidate at Tufts University who was detained after engaging in pro-Palestine activism. Chief Judge Denise Casper said she was “struggling” to understand why Immigration and Customs Enforcement terminated Öztürk’s record in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) shortly after she co-authored an op-ed criticizing Tufts’ response to the genocide in Gaza.

Öztürk was arrested on 25 March, the same day her SEVIS status was deleted and her visa revoked, and detained for 45 days until a federal judge ordered her release, finding she had raised a substantial First Amendment retaliation claim. Although she has since returned to her studies, ICE’s refusal to reinstate her SEVIS record has barred her from teaching or working as a research assistant, jeopardizing her academic progress in the final stretch before graduation.

Her attorneys argue the government’s shifting explanations stand in stark contrast to its reversal of mass SEVIS terminations for thousands of other foreign students earlier this year.

At Thursday’s hearing, Judge Casper pressed ICE to justify its discretion, as the ACLU contends the agency targeted Öztürk specifically for protected political speech. The government argues it may update SEVIS to reflect visa revocations and removal proceedings, while Öztürk’s lawyers say the visa only governs entry and does not invalidate her lawful student status. They describe the SEVIS termination as one of several retaliatory actions taken against her for expressing pro-Palestinian views.

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1997255307983003830

Appeals Court in Mahmoud Khalil’s Case Decides Federal Court Lacks Jurisdiction Until Immigration Court Proceedings Complete
Despite this ruling, the legal fight continues and the government has no legal authority to re-detain him until the appeals process is fully concluded


January 15, 2026, Philadelphia — Today, in a split 2-1 decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district court ruling that found Mahmoud Khalil’s detention and removal likely unconstitutional. Today's order does not weigh in on the core First Amendment arguments in his case but holds that the district court did not have subject matter jurisdiction over Mr. Khalil’s immigration proceedings.

The opinion does not go into effect immediately and the Trump administration cannot lawfully re-detain Mr. Khalil until the order takes formal effect, which will not happen while he has the opportunity to seek immediate review. Mr. Khalil’s legal team has several legal avenues they may pursue, including seeking review en banc from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which would allow all judges from the Third Circuit to weigh in.

“Today’s ruling is deeply disappointing, but it does not break our resolve,” said Mahmoud Khalil. “The door may have been opened for potential re-detainment down the line, but it has not closed our commitment to Palestine and to justice and accountability. I will continue to fight, through every legal avenue and with every ounce of determination, until my rights, and the rights of others like me, are fully protected.”

In June 2025, a federal judge district court judge Michael E. Farbiarz granted Mr. Khalil’s request for a preliminary injunction after concluding that he would continue to suffer irreparable harm if the government continued efforts to detain and deport him on the basis of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s determination under the “foreign policy ground,” a rarely used deportation provision of the federal immigration statute, that Mr. Khali’s lawful protected speech would “compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest.” Judge Farbiarz also found that Mr. Khalil was likely to succeed on the merits of his constitutional challenge to his detention and attempted deportation on the “foreign policy ground.” In a separate order, Judge Farbiarz released Mr. Khalil on bail after determining that he presented neither a danger nor a flight risk and that extrPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Israeli Censorship Enforcement strikes again, this time against Salah Sarsour:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/2/rights-groups-milwaukee-leaders-slam-ices-arrest-of-palestinian-advocate

>>495218
>if an organization is at its roots being 'run like a business'
What are you quoting here?

>>495241 (me)
No like actually, here is the official response to "Who funds ACP?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtiLPtvyBQ&t=2241s


>The video states that currently, all necessary expenses for the party's national initiatives are paid out-of-pocket by the leadership (including the executive board and polit bureau). In addition to personal contributions from leadership, revenue is generated through the party's journal and dues paid by reserve members. The speaker emphasizes that the party is not bankrolled by any outside sponsors, donors, or billionaires, and that individual chapters also fund their own activities by pulling money and resources out-of-pocket. (37:21 - 39:08)

Sorry for quoting yt AI but this has nothing to do with being "run like a business" so idk what you are talking about bro

>>495242 (me)
Maybe you are being confused by this part: (transcription mine)

>Now the big question is "what's the strategy for getting funding for the party?". Well we don't have huge mega-donors, we don't have any capitalist patrons, we don't have any billionaires bankrolling us, so we have a strategy that involves a concept called "chapter enterprises". "Chapter enterprises" are cooperative businesses that chapters are going to be running that's basically going to give them an economic existence and therefore because we know how it works in any society to have a political existence we need to have an economic existence. You need a way to actually support with resources your acctivity and sustain that activity. So when it comes to labor organizing, when it comes to community service, when it comes to having a foothold in local politics, if you don't have any kind of economic power what-so-ever, none of those things are possible at least in the long term. For some reason – this still baffles me; Some people found this to be contraversial its just because they don't know about the history of every communist party on earth has always had to contend with economic realities. Most communist parties contend themselves with just collecting dues or just collecting donations, but we are in here for the long haul. We think that this is not going to be something overnight as far as the construction of the proletarian dictatorship and the seizure of power. So it's very important that there is a Communist voice in American politics, that there is a Communist influence, that ther's a seat at the table for the American working class politically. And you have to have some kind of economic existence for that to be possible. So chapter enterprises are central to our strategy to actually be solvent, and to be efficient, and to allow our activity actually be funded and given the proper resources that it needs. Our goal is not profit. If our goal was profit we would not be running a communist party. The income that chapter enterprises makes goes into the party itself, to grow the party itself. So that's basically our model for funding the party.

What I will say is that what you are thinking of as the quote is "chapter enterprises operating as businesses" is really "'Chapter enterprises' are cooperative businesses that chaptePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>495243

I may have been mistaken as to their funding after reading over that previous post yes, regardless I looked into their goals and I am not a huge supporter of their outlook on drugs & sex work and feels entirely too statist for me to support such a heavy handed goal.

>>495243
>>495244
That's fine, more on this:

>Right now all of the necessary expenses for the National Party initiavites are coming out of pocket from leadership myself included. From the executive board from the politburo - its all out of pocket right now notwithstanding the stream of revenue from the journal and the newly created dues that accompany the reserve status. That is where our reveneue comes from. Nobody is funding our party. We are not being bankrolled. We have no sponsors. We have no big sponsors either abroad or domestically. None whatsoever. We are working to make our party economically efficient, so we can have longevity. Right now it has not achieved that. So we have to work to gain that. We have to achieve that. It's not something automatic. So, it's really just out of pocket expenses. None of us are profiting from this or making money from it. We are all putting everything in and getting nothing back. And even when the party manages to really get sustainable streams of revenue - its all going back into the party anyway - so that's who funds the party I guess, really no one except us, ourselves; as far as chapters - they also funded out of pocket. The chapters come together to pool money and resources - and that's how they fund chapter activity. So nobody is funding us. Right now we are on our own. We don't have millions of dollars coming from Goldman Sacks, and USAid like these other organizations. Nothing. Just us. So that's that simple, really.

So it seems to me like it is entirely self-funded and the funding doesn't flow upstream to anybody. In fact I would need some funds of my own to even engage with them; which rules out people like NEETS.

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>>495188
Out.

>>495203
A few things:

1. Learn how imageboards work. Or even basic forums. Learn what a thread is, and post one.

2. I'll say the rest when you get past step 1.

>>495204
my bad im retarded wrong thread

Stop using AI slop and cold takes to grab attention, fashie. Nazis kill leftists and minorities.

>>480076
You're hinting at the Ukraine proxy war ? While there are few coffins coming back from that war, it's not going smooth either.

More shit going down, it sounds like:
https://x.com/agent_of_change/status/1859952119366684943

US defense secretary Lloyd Austin revealed yesterday the existence of the "US Task Force Ayungin", a military unit in the Philippines that has never been publicly acknowledged before.

Austin said he "met with some American service members deployed to US Task Force Ayungin" and that he "thanked them for their hard work on behalf of the American people and our alliances and partnerships in this region".

US troops are providing "guidance and training" to the Philippine military, supposedly in response to Chinese aggression.

Duterte arrested.

Philippines ex-leader Duterte arrested on ICC warrant over drug killings

Philippine police have arrested former president Rodrigo Duterte after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity over his deadly "war on drugs".

The 79-year-old was taken into police custody shortly after his arrival at Manila airport from Hong Kong on Tuesday.

Latest reports from local media say he is on board a private jet on the airport tarmac. Earlier, his daughter said he was being "forcibly" sent to the Hague in the Netherlands, where the ICC sits.

A press conference from the presidential palace is expected soon.

Duterte has offered no apologies for his brutal anti-drugs crackdown, which saw thousands of people killed when he was president of the South East Asian nation from 2016 to 2022, and mayor of Davao city before that.

Upon his arrest on Tuesday, he questioned the basis for the warrant, asking: "What crime [have] I committed?" in a video posted online by his daughter Veronica Duterte.
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>>485818
Bongbong Marcos will be the chairman of ASEAN in 2026.

Bongbong, are ya winning?

🇮🇷 Spokesman for the Iranian Army, Brigadier General Mohammad Akrami-Nia:
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The wicked actions of the United States and the "israeli" regime have endangered the security of the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Hormuz has always been a safe and peaceful passage, and even extra-regional countries have used it for the transit of their ships.

The main issue of the United States with the Islamic Republic of Iran is by no means the nuclear issue; because we had solved this issue once during the Obama presidency. However, Trump broke that agreement during his first term as president of the United States and showed that he does not adhere to any law or commitment, and his issue with Iran is not the nuclear debate; rather, it is the authority and independence of Iran, an independence that few countries in the world fully possess today.

Recently, "israeli" and American officials have not hesitated to bring up this issue. The debate of "Greater "israel"", which the prime minister of the "israeli" regime raised several times before the war, means the disintegration of the countries of the region, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Syria. These countries, within the framework of that vision or plan, were to be divided.

🇮🇷 Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, Seyed Majid Moosavi:
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The paralyzing of the logistical radar network and the inflicting of losses on American bases in the region continues. Thanks to intelligence information and Iranian strikes, America has no choice but to stay away from Iran's borders. This is evident through the wreckage of the early warning and airborne command and control aircraft (AWACS), refueling aircraft, and the destroyed American bunkers. Soon, other valuable targets will be added to this list.

🇮🇷 Spokesman for the Khatim Al-Anbiya Headquarters:
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The unbalanced and lying Trump has caused extensive damage to the people of the world.

Trump, the US president, has repeatedly threatened Iran with ground operations and the occupation of certain islands in the Persian Gulf. There is no doubt that the US president, under pressure from the terrorist organization Mossad, due to his history in the Epstein file, has become a pawn in the hands of the prime minister of the zionist regime in war and aggression against Iran.

The US president, who has become known as the most lying president in the world and lacks any intellectual or discourse stability, is not trustworthy at all. Unfortunately, the US leaders have entrusted the authority of the armed forces command to someone who, due to imbalance, dangerous and wrong stances and decisions, has led the US army into a quagmire of death.

Trump, whose commanders and soldiers face death in the region daily, due to the fear of being killed, have fled from destroyed bases and taken refuge in service, residential, and economic centers of the countries in the region, and of course, they are targeted there as well.

He and the senior commanders of the dismantled US army, thousands of kilometers away from the battlefield, expect resistance from the commanders and soldiers on the battlefield! Trump beats the drum of threats one morning, and on the evening of the same day, he retreats. At one time, he talks about negotiation, and hours later, he decides to manage the war.

This unbalanced and lying individual has caused extensive damage to the people of America, Europe, and the countries of the world, especially the countries of the West Asia region.

The US president has proven that the only language he understands is the language of force. In response to Trump's recent threats regarding ground operations or occupying any point of Iranian territory, which is, of course, nothing more than a wish, we declare: The fighters of Islam have long been waiting for such actions to prove that aggression and occupation will result in nothing but humiliating captivity, being torn to pieces, and the disappearance of the aggressors, and the American commanders and soldiers will become good food for the sharks of the Persian Gulf.
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🇮🇷 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps:
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In continuation of the eighty-sixth wave of Operation True Promise 4, under the codename "O God of the Worlds," and dedicated to all zealous national athletes and champions, in a harsh response to the brutal attacks by the American-zionist axis on the industrial centers of dear Iran, and in continuation of the strikes against industries affiliated with America on the periphery of the Persian Gulf, the "Neot Hovav" industrial zone in "occupied Bir Al-Sabi'" in the south of the occupied territories was, by the grace of God, attacked by solid and liquid-fuel ballistic missile systems of the IRGC Aerospace Force. Following successive explosions, this area went into a total blackout.

In this operation, the regime's military centers in the Naqab desert, the command of the regime's northern region, and security-governmental centers in occupied Al-Quds and "Tel Aviv" were also targeted by Iranian ballistic missiles and attack drones.

US petroleum lobbyist Sommers coming out and making war demands, and it's "let them it cake" tier ditzy shit.

>>493994
They said the same about TV and video games

>>492232
If you notice I said cartoon porn. Which is mainly lines on a paper, which reduces the need for actors.
Also referring to cishet male sexuality as “inherently reactionary is typical echo chamber bs by misandrists.

Your opinion is discarded

>>493995
The first paragraph and a half is just pure bias

Porn is not a patio and there’s no “goner threat”

Just because your Abrahamic religion brainwashed you into hating sex doesn't mean we all have to now.

>>495141
>porn = sex
retard

thx for reminding me why gulags existed…

Only because you were FREE to do smth in a "left" state, doesnt mean you SHOULD. Simple as that.

You are confusing Age of Consent with the age you are liable in bourgeois juristiction.

The age of consent is (typically 14) set because of the growth of the human brain and the dev. of sexual relations AMONGS peers.
It is NOT normal for a adult to fuck kids/teen. But why am I bothering, you will just read what you want.

Sex between Adults and kids is in 99.9% due to a power gap and hierarchy. And if you were a left, you would see that. But you are just in the search of a explanation for your disorder. Get help or smth

>>494483
The problem is, young adults are classified as children in the sociosexual realm nowadays.

Also, if power gap is the reason why adult-child relationships are bad, then why are intereconomic relationships not looked at the same way?
Not OP by the way.

Also, historically, adulthood began at fourteen. Nowadays people say 25.

You can have sex after you've won something.

OP, are you ok?
Why are people so morally obsessed with sex and sexuality?
Leftists don't view sex as good. They call anything sexual as "predatory"

>>494401
>Sex, gooner shit, troon shit, pornography etc is pushed onto people by the ruling class,

This is popular anti-sec sentiment pushed by people.
iMO, there's nothing wrong with sex and porn. People just wanna politicize things that should not be.

the real contradiction is the promotion of sex, but prohibition of childbirth, making sex a purely destructive act. further, some even think that childbirth should be alienated to central controls (e.g. eugenic breeing) and that de facto, all unplanned pregnancies should be killed.

>>495007
Yet what I see is the opposite. Sex is promoted only as purely procreative. Recreational sex is pathologized

>>495087
>At least people on the far right (lolberts) know that something is wrong and are willing to engage with others who think something with wrong, you can have quite productive conversations and even ally with them on specific issues.
That's fair. But you can still ally with centrists on culture war, no?

>>495108 (me)
Also, can you blame the centrists for always choosing the middle ground when both sides are full of crazies and when moderate opinions often appear to be the more nuanced ones as a consequence of that? Culture war, AI, even immigration and wars are very, VERY polarizing topics where each side uncritically supports a certain position. It's understandable how one's kneejerk response to it all will be believing that the horseshoe theory is correct. After all, how many people even know about anti-idpol leftists? Seriously.

>>495096
>You're not entitled to my labor value or solidarity. Solidarity is earned.
Who asked?
>It is fundamentally wrong to bring life into the world.
No its not that's just how life works. There are no wrongs or rights in the natural world.

>>495105
>because you gave in to peer pressure.
That's retarded, there is a correct side based on the available evidence.

>>495122
>That's retarded, there is a correct side based on the available evidence.
You can never be certain that this or that side is absolutely correct, you can only be certain that this or that side is correct-er. Learning is a continuous process, you don't suddenly wake up one day and exclaim: "Ewreka! I know exactly how the world works!" Even if you pick a side, you shouldn't just delegate your thinking to it, you should approach all alliances with a critical lens. Otherwise, why are you even on this board? If you are unable to criticize the left then you shouldn't be there, go away.

https://www.cpusa.org/article/rise-in-unity-for-democracy-and-our-future/
>Rise in unity for democracy and our future – Communist Party USA

"Housing for people, not profit

Housing is a human right which requires removing the profit motive. Affordable housing, built and maintained with union labor, must be created for renters and homeowners. Rents and mortgages should be immediately rolled back to no more than 30% of income with the goal of pushing housing costs below 10% of income. We need to enact national rent control with protections against evictions and foreclosures. More public housing must be built with first priority to the unhoused. Profiteering by banks and private equity firms must be stopped. The time to organize tenant unions is now!"

>>495037
Now remember to vote Democrat. We have to stop Trump!

>>495088
What are you trying o communicate with this video, anon?

>>495089
How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?