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PBS Poses Mahdawi’s Detention As Fight for Free Speech and Democracy in America

Friday’s edition of the PBS News Hour contained a frustrating interview with the left’s deportation hero of the day, conducted by the outlet’s most slanted reporter, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez.

After she and co-anchor Geoff Bennett talked about the release of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, whose student visa was revoked apparently because she co-wrote an anti-Israel op-ed, the discussion segued to someone whom Bennett called “another student who was recently released from detention, Mohsen Mahdawi.”

PBS held up as heroic a figure who led Jew-harassing groups on campus:

BARRON-LOPEZ: Mohsen, you were detained for more than two weeks. Can you tell me about your experience in detention in a place where you lived for years?

MAHDAWI: My experience actually has conflicting feelings about it, the first one is being…

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