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Double Standards for Jew-Haters?

Posted on | March 21, 2025 | 14 Comments

Perhaps you’ve forgotten what 2021 was like, and forgive me for reminding you of that nightmare, but it’s kind of relevant. Remember when Merrick Garland declared white supremacy the top terrorist threat to the United States? And do you also remember how the Left tried to stir up fears of the “Christian nationalist” menace? These were obviously not unrelated, because what they were really doing — the underlying motive behind these messages — was attempting to convince Jews that any kind of “right-wing” movement was a threat to them. See, it’s one thing to lecture about the evils of racism, but that word doesn’t carry the same significance to Jews as does the phrase “white supremacy,” and then when you add “Christian nationalism” to the message, it sort of puts an exclamation mark on this carefully targeted propaganda.

Which brings us, roundabout, to Xavier Louis Lopez, a young resident of the Henrico County suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. In August 2020, Lopez went on a vandalism spree in his neighborhood, slashing tires, while carrying a Confederate “Bonnie Blue” flag. He was convicted of a felony, which prohibited him from owning firearms. After being released from jail, however, Lopez sought to acquire weapons and, using an online alias (“Cru54d3r”), advocated violent extremism. This resulted in an investigation and Lopez’s arrest on federal charges. Let me share with you an excerpt of the transcript of a hearing in that case:

“All that needs to be done is for us to truly unite in Christ Jesus and make total war against the Satanic occultist government and the Zionist devil worshiping bankers who control it, and the Lord God will give us victory . . .
“Jews, liberals, communists, degenerates, Zionists, progressives, capitalists, globalists, and Green Party PETA-type environmentalists are the greatest enemies of God and the primary representatives of the devil himself in the spotlight and everyday life. Learn how to spot them and how to destroy them.”

As I keep warning you, Crazy People Are Dangerous. Certainly, many readers will agree with some of Xavier Lopez’s rant — e.g., disliking liberals or “Green Party PETA-type environmentalists” — without going completely crazy with the “total war” Zionist conspiracy stuff, and stockpiling weapons in anticipation of such a “total war.”

At any rate, the reason I bring up Xavier Lopez’s case is because he was the proximate cause of the Richmond FBI office circulating what has since become known as “the Catholic memo,” which emphasized “the increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) in radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology.” This was due to Lopez’s reported seven-month involvement with the Society of Saint Pius X, a conservative Catholic group.

There has been a lot of outrage over the FBI’s “Catholic memo,” and most of the commentary omits mention of the Xavier Lopez case, but the point I wish to make is this: Because the DOJ under Merrick Garland had identified “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” as the No. 1 terrorism threat in America, and because this one crazy Jew-hater in Richmond happened to be associated with a Catholic group, a shadow of terrorist suspicion was cast on all conservative Catholics by the FBI.

“Henrico man sentenced to over eight years in prison for illegally possessing Molotov cocktails” was the headline on a DOJ press release last month bringing an end to the Xavier Lopez case, and not a single Democrat has filed a lawsuit or issued a press release opposing the prosecution of Lopez. Why, then, are we hearing so much noise about the Trump administration’s crackdown on Jew-haters?

Badar Khan Suri

A researcher studying at Georgetown University was detained by federal immigration authorities on Monday over allegations by the Trump administration that the foreign exchange student spread Hamas propaganda through social media, according to reports.
Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national in the US on a student visa, was arrested at his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, by masked agents from the Department of Homeland Security, his lawyer alleges in a lawsuit obtained by CBS News and Politico.
Suri, who both teaches and studies at the university as a postdoctoral associate and is married to a US citizen, was told by the DHS agents that his student visa had been revoked, the suit stated.
The Trump administration alleged that Suri was “actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media,” CBS reported.
A DHS spokesperson claimed the Georgetown student had “close connections” to a senior adviser to Hamas, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined “rendered him deportable” under the Immigration and Nationality Act on March 15.
A lawyer for Suri filed a writ of habeas corpus in the Eastern District of Virginia challenging the detention.
Georgetown University said it was unaware of any allegations of nefarious or illegal behavior against its post-grad.
“Dr. Khan Suri is an Indian national who was duly granted a visa to enter the United states to continue his doctoral research on peacebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan,” a Georgetown University spokesperson said in a statement to The Post.
Suri was told by the DHS agents that his student visa had been revoked, the report stated.
Suri, who both teaches and studies at the university as a postdoctoral associate, was told by the DHS agents that his student visa had been revoked, the report stated.
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“We are not aware of him engaging in any illegal activity, and we have not received a reason for his detention,” the statement read. “We expect the legal system to adjudicate this case fairly.”
Suri has a doctorate in peace and conflict studies from a university in India and is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown’s Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, according to the elite school’s website.
“If an accomplished scholar who focuses on conflict resolution is whom the government decides is bad for foreign policy, then perhaps the problem is with the government, not the scholar,” his lawyer said in an email to Reuters.
The Indian national’s wife is a US citizen originally from Gaza and still has close ties to the Palestinian enclave, working with its foreign ministry and writing for Al Jazeera and other Palestinian outlets, according to Georgetown’s website.
Suri’s lawyer argued that his client was being targeted over his wife’s heritage and their support of Palestinian rights, Politico reported.

Oh, the Democrats are in an uproar over this!

It’s “a blatant attack” on free speech to deport a foreigner with “close connections” to Hamas, according to Democrat Rep. Don Beyer, and Politico would have us believe Suri is being “targeted” because of his wife’s “pro-Palestinian views.” What they’re not telling you, however, is that Suri’s wife is the daughter of longtime senior Hamas leader Ahmed Yousef, and that Suri used his social media accounts to post pro-Hamas videos. How is it that none of these Democrats defending “free speech” for Jew-hating foreigners like Badar Suri ever said a word in defense of Xavier Lopez calling for “total war” against “the Satanic occultist government and the Zionist devil worshiping bankers”?

Because of Lopez’s craziness, the FBI issued a memo warning about the dangers of “radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology,” but here you have Suri — whose father-in-law is a senior Hamas official — on the payroll of Georgetown University and where’s the FBI memo warning about that? There’s a blatant double standard here, where Democrats excuse the kind of “extremism” that involves Hamas terrorists murdering Jews, because Democrats consider the real danger to be the kind of “extremism” that might cause Americans to vote Republican.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! And, now that I’m thinking of it, I owe Ace of Spades a hat-tip on the Badar Suri angle.



 

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