Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user SWinxy. Mahmoud Khalil was released from ICE detention and immediately began leading an anti-America, pro-Iran protest. A foreign activist with suspected terrorist connections rallying against the country that had just freed him, perfectly encapsulates why comparing today’s campus activism to the civil rights movement is not just historically inaccurate, but morally obscene. As campus encampments and street demonstrations spread across America, activists and politicians are increasingly drawing false parallels between today’s pro-Hamas protests and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Representative Rashida Tlaib recently claimed these protests reflect students being “on the right side of history time and time again,” directly comparing them to civil rights pioneers. But the comparison collapses under scrutiny. The civil rights movement fought…
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