Impending federal overhaul means Trump will soon have de facto political army to attack Palestine activism – Mondoweiss

At the House of Representatives hearings on alleged antisemitism on July 15, Georgetown president Robert M. Groves jumped at the chance to tell Republican vultures that one of his faculty members was under investigation. The professor had exercised his First Amendment right to do something experts everywhere were doing without provoking controversy: he expressed the hope that after the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities, Iran would respond with a symbolic strike and the…