Posted on 03/21/2025 3:30:53 PM PDT by george76
When the media omit the facts that matter most, it’s clear that they are more interested in undermining the Trump administration than informing the public about threats America faces..
The propaganda press continues to play fast and loose with the truth, and nowhere is that more apparent than in their coverage of the Trump administration’s efforts to detain yet another terrorist sympathizer living in the United States. This time, it’s Badar Khan Suri, a man with ties to a senior Hamas official — but you wouldn’t necessarily glean that from the deliberately misleading headlines and articles.
“Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says,” Politico’s Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein said. Cheney and Gerstein added that Suri “says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.”
“Suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage” is a rather charitable way of describing the daughter of known Hamas senior adviser Ahmed Yousef.
Suri’s wife is Palestinian-born Mapheze Saleh. Saleh is a student at Georgetown as well as a former writer for Al Jazeera, which peddles Hamas propaganda. Saleh previously worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas.
Saleh’s father, Yousef, was a senior adviser to Hamas leadership, according to National Review. A Wikipedia page for Yousef describes him as “‘Hamas’s gate’ to the West because of his extensive connections to Hamas and his years living in the United States.”
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Saleh, a U.S. citizen, also posted several pieces of Hamas propaganda on her social media account, including a video that, according to National Review, “claimed Hamas was forced to carry out the attack because Israel is supposedly a ‘fascist occupation state,’ Israel has ‘judized [sic] their Quds’ (an apparent attempt at claiming Jews have ‘Judaized’ Jerusalem), and Jews are trying to build ‘their alleged temple on the ruins of Al-Aqsa.’” Saleh also posted “tributes” to several Hamas terrorists, including Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and Mohammed Deif, according to National Review.
Saleh made a post declaring “America is the plague,” according to National Review.
But according to Cheney and Gerstein, “Suri’s lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, argued in his petition that Suri is being punished because of the Palestinian heritage of his wife — who is a U.S. citizen — and because the government suspects that he and his wife oppose U.S. foreign policy toward Israel.”
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin stated in a post on X, however, that Suri “has close connections to a known or suspected terrorist” and is “actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media.” (Federal law prohibits providing “material support or resources” to any designated terrorist organizations.)
That didn’t stop Cheney and Gerstein from pretending that Suri is just “a Georgetown University researcher, who was studying and teaching on a student visa.”
It’s a similar angle taken by The New York Times’ Hank Sanders and Zolan Kanno-Youngs, who described the situation as the government detaining “an Indian citizen who was studying and teaching at Georgetown University.” Not once do Sanders and Kanno-Youngs mention that Suri’s wife posts Hamas propaganda.
NBC News’ Gary Grumbach and Chloe Atkins didn’t mention Suri’s wife, her posts peddling Hamas propaganda, or her father’s involvement with Hamas. As far as NBC News’ readers go, Suri is just a “graduate student from India” whose lawyer says did “nothing wrong.”
In the world of Politico, The New York Times, and NBC News, Suri’s connection to Hamas gets airbrushed out of the picture. Suri is merely a “researcher” and “graduate student” caught up in a legal dispute. The propaganda press frames the story as though the government’s actions are driven by a general opposition to free speech rather than the clear, present danger posed by an individual with ties to a terrorist organization that seeks the destruction of America’s allies and America.
When the media omit the facts that matter most, it’s clear that they are more interested in undermining the Trump administration in the court of public opinion than in informing the public about the very real threats America faces.
OMG!! Our DEMOCRAT MEDIA IS TOTALLY CORRUPT!
Georgetown has become Deep State U.
Exactly. Most of the media IS the enemy.
The traitorous Enemedia prefers to give aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
“Suri’s wife is Palestinian-born”...
“Just a “graduate student from India””...
So how is she a US citizen? The article said that twice, like they are trying to make a point.
btt
It sure is.
Maybe because in America we judge people by their own actions, not by who their relatives are? I haven’t been following this case so I don’t know what exactly he is accused of. If he’s found guilty of a crime he should be deported and not be allowed back in, even if his in-laws have a sudden conversion.
LOL
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