cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27226205

By Abby Zimet Mar 15, 2025

Freefalling through our authoritarian takeover, this week saw New York police in the grotesque faux-gold belly of the beast arrest 100 Jews of conscience chanting “Free Free Palestine” to protest the ICE abduction of a Palestinian peace advocate for likewise standing against Israeli genocide - both acts of Constitutionally-protected free speech this dark regime deems criminal. Jews on detainment for expressing the wrong political ideas: “We know our history, and we know where this leads. This is what fascists do.”