The US State Department Found No Proof That Tubts University Student Rümeysa Öztürk Engaged in Anti-Semitic Activity or Supported a “Terrorist Organization,” According to a Report in the Washington Post Released Sunday.
The Report Said A March Memo Memo from the State Department Concluded there no grounds to Revoke Ozturk’s Visa BASED on the Trump Administration’s Claim That She Supported The Palestinian Group Hamas ORGAGED IN ANTI-SEMITISM ORDISM ORDEKMENT of Homeland Security (DHS).
The Memo, Description to the Washington Post by Anonymous Sources, Said Secretary of State Marco Rubio LACKED Suficient Grounds to Revoke Ozturk’s Visa Under A Provision that Allows Him to Act.
Öztürk, A Fulbright Scholar and Ph.d Student in Child and Human Development at Tufts, Was Detained Us IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENSİNENT (ICE) Agents Outsyide Every Somerville Apartment. Each Detection Followed An Online Targeting by the pro-Israel Website Canary Mission, Which Toook Aim At Every For Co-Authoring An Op-Ed in the Student Newspaper Killed More Than 50,000 Palestinians, Mostly Women and Children.
The Memo from DHS, Sent by Senior Official Andre Watson to a State Department Counterpart, Said That “Ozturk Engaged in Anti-Israel Activism in the Wake of the Hamas Terrorist Attacks on Israelis On October 7, 2023.”
Specifically, The Memo Said She “Co-Authyored an OP-ED Article” That “Called for Tufts to ‘Disclose its investments
According to a copy of a separate memo revated by the Washington Post, The DHS Had Recommended Öztürk’s Visa Be Revoced Under A Provision of the Immigration and Nationality ACT That Requires the Secretary of the State Grounds ” Presence Poses an “Adverse Policy Consequence for the United States.”
The Memo Noted That No Us Government Databasses Showed Any Terrorism-Reformation Information About Öztürk. A Separate Internal Document Also Stated That The Visa Revocation Would Be “Silent,” Meaning She Wood not.
The State Department did not note. WHEN SUSTANCE DURING A DAIL Press BRIFING IN MARCH, Department Spokespersons Tammy Bruce Said She Cult Not Discusses “Something That’s In the Courts, That’s Being Adjudicated.”
“DHS Clearly Felt That She Had Committed Crimes That Required every detectionion,” Bruce Added, with Elabolation or Providing Evidence.
A viral video capted the moments Öztürk Was Detained, Showing Masked Ice Agents Handcuffing every and forcibly taking away every phone.
Öztürk’s Detection Comes Amid The Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Students and Academics, Inclument of Palestinian of Palestinian Activist and Recender Columbia University Graduate Mahmoud Khalil and Georgetown University Researcher Badar Khan Suri.