First they came for a disgraceful Holocaust comparison in the case of Mahmoud Khalil

Let’s be clear about Mahmoud Khalil: He’s a green card holder who has distributed propaganda from Hamas, a US-designated terrorist group, at Columbia University, where he has organized violent protests that fomented despicable antisemitism.He has led a group that harassed Jews and committed a slew of other abhorrent and illegal acts including vandalism, destruction of property and even attacks on Columbia security staff.The federal Immigration and Nationality Act indisputably forbids aliens, including green card holders, from supporting or promoting a designated terrorist organization such as Hamas.Doing so is grounds to revoke such an individual’s green card.Under federal law, it is also clear that the secretary of state can deport such individuals for engaging in activities that have “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”Bear in mind, Khalil is no run-of-the-mill lunatic.He has brandished literature stamped with the “Hamas Media Office” logo.

How did he get that?Yet Democrats and the left-wing media are cynically using Jews — and, yes, once again, even evoking the Holocaust — to argue against Khalil’s detention.They are wielding Jewish history — and the ultimate example of Jewish victimhood — to protect this terrorist-surrogate antisemite and object to his deportation.When Sen.Chris Murphy (D-Conn) denounced Khalil’s arrest, he intoned, “Today it’s Mahmoud Khalil.

Tomorrow, it’s me or you.”Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) similarly stated, “If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too.”Both quotes deliberately recall the famous 1946 poem “First They Came .

..” by Martin Niemöller.In it, Niemöller bemoans the German people’s silence during the Nazis’ rise to power.

He catalogs the incremental purging of various groups — Communists, socialists, Jews and others — in the march t...