Inside the Trump Administration’s Controversial Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Campus Activism

As the trial unfolds in Boston challenging the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists, a larger question looms: When does national security become a pretext for silencing dissent and undermining constitutional freedoms?Is National Security Justifying Political Persecution?The lawsuit brought by university associations against Donald Trump's administration reveals a disturbing pattern. More than 5,000 students and faculty involved in peaceful pro-Palestinian protests were targeted for scrutiny through a specially formed "Tiger Team" within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This team sifted through names provided mainly by right-wing groups like Canary Mission—an organization whose own secrecy and opaque funding...