As this MAGA hearing continues, attempting to smear and vilify students who are organizing to stop a genocide, the Israeli government is starving over 2 million Palestinian in Gaza.

Ilhan Omar talks about how the Trump regime’s actions like targeting of student activists who support Palestinian rights for deportation is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.

Casar asks GOP Committee members if they condemn Trump saying there were "very fine people on both sides" of the racist & antisemitic march on Charlottesville, RFK's spread of antisemitic conspiracy theories, or Trump's pardoning of antisemitic insurrectionists. None raise hands.

Alma Adams pushed back against this sham of a hearing, sharing the stories of the Jewish Columbia students on the Hill yesterday about how they are facing discrimination because of their political beliefs. Nothing Trump and his allies are doing is actually about Jewish safety.

It's hard to take Mary Miller's pretense of caring about Jewish safety seriously when she quoted Hitler while giving a speech outside of the US Capitol the day before the January 6 insurrection...

Elise Stefanik - who echos the antisemitic 'great replacement theory' and defended Elon Musk's Nazi salute - is on the mic pretending to care at all about Jews. One of her favorite ways to try to grow her career.

Ahead of today, Jewish faculty from Haverford publicly rejected the hearings. Some noted that they are "political theater" aimed at "silencing pro-Palestinian voices on campus – including many Jewish voices."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yesterday, a group of incredible Jewish students from Columbia spoke with lawmakers, calling on them to fight back against these kind of right wing attempts to use false allegations of antisemitism to dismantle free speech and social justice movements. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

The fact that Chairman Walberg doesn't even know how to pronounce "Chabad" really shows you all need you need to know about how much the folks leading this hearing care about Jews.

Instead of listening to a hateful grandstanding bigot like Josh Hawley attack and smear Mahmoud Khalil, read Mahmoud’s own beautiful words about why he organizes for Palestinian rights and how he hopes to be released in time for the birth of his child.

www.aclu.org/news/free-sp...

Sen Markey coming out swinging! Listing out the blatant antisemitism of Trump and his cronies over the years, and how Trump & co. Are simultaneously cynically using the fear of antisemitism to attack free speech. He calls out what is happening as what it is: authoritarianism.

Husted smearing student activists and calling for deportations. This is part of the coordinated campaign of fear-mongering and attack that motivates the detention of students like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk who were abducted by ICE, targeted for their political speech.

As Senators smear and attack anti-war student activists who are trying to end the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians, the Trump administration is using this narrative to abduct students from the street and their homes, targeting them for deportation. This is fascism.

Sanders is showing an image from a Trump event showing Soros as a puppeteer over government, and asking each witness to say if it is antisemitic. StandWithUs witness is only able to say “it raises questions” and that “context is key”.

Mkay.

People are bringing up the Anti-semitism Awareness Act, a bill that would codify the discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism in order to even further crack down on Palestinian rights activists and political dissent.

Tell your Senators to oppose it: www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/tel...

Sanders needing to correct Cassidy’s pronunciation of “Lubavitch” multiple times really speaks volumes about Cassidy and this hearing.

Carly Gammill of the anti-Palestinian group StandWithUs conflates Judaism with the political ideology of Zionism. This falsehood - intertwining a centuries old religion with a 77 year old ethnonationalist nation state - will be at the core of today’s attacks in the hearing.