Mahmoud Khalil pens op-ed comparing ICE detention to Nazi concentration camps

“I pick up my copy of Viktor Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search for Meaning.’ I feel ashamed to compare my conditions in ICE detention to Nazi concentration camps, yet, some aspects of Frankl’s experience resonate: not knowing what fate awaits me; seeing resignation and defeat in my fellow detainees,” Khalil wrote in a new op-ed published in The Washington Post.

Khalil in the op-ed criticized “the breakneck speed with which my case was heard and decided,” arguing it ran “roughshod over due process.”

“Why should protesting Israel’s indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians result in the erosion of my constitutional rights?” Khalil said.

He hopes his detention will be a warning and inspiration to others to stand up against injustice.

“I write this letter as the sun rises, hoping that the suspension of my rights will raise alarm bells that yours are already in jeopardy. I hope it will inspire your outrage that the most basic human instinct, to protest shameless massacre, is being repressed by obscure laws, racist propaganda and a state terrified of an awakened public,” Khalil wrote in his conclusion. LINK