I was like millions of Americans who were shocked to learn about — and to see the frightening video of — the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thugs kidnapped of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk in broad daylight. She was seemingly targeted because she was one of four coauthors of an op-ed published in the Daily last year.
Her arrest came after the pro-Israel group Canary Mission (CM) flagged Ozturk for having "engaged in anti-Israel activism in March 2024" and Canary Mission shared the information with Marco Rubio and the Israeli embassy. Canary Mission engages in collecting information about Interantional student and professors who are critical of Apartheid Israel and enjoy tax-exempt status but it is not registered as a foreign lobby group. That begs the question, where is the IRS when you need it to revoke CM's tax-exempt status?
The text of op-ed Rümeysa Öztürk co-authored at The Tufts Daily
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