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What We Learned from the Federal Charges Against a Pro-Hamas Ring
(Commentary) Seth Mandel - No one in the U. of Michigan case is being punished for protesting. They are being indicted for behavior they knew fell into the category of federal criminal conspiracy. They threatened their victims, handed them a list of demands, and then used the anniversary of Hamas's attacks to vandalize the families' homes in the middle of the night, leaving painted assassination threats. In some cases, they spread loose nails and threw stink bombs. They confronted staff at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and threatened: "I'll be back...we're going to come back with lots of people." The group posted a message: "Our duty to Palestine is to damage, disrupt, and destroy the colonizers' operations by any means necessary. We call on revolutionaries across the world to take decisive, escalatory action....Glory to our martyrs, power to our freedom fighters!" This is the rhetoric of lunatics, precisely the kind of psychotic terror-worshiping loose cannons you'd want law enforcement keeping an eye on.