The Rutgers University student who hosted anti-feminist provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos for his first U.S. college event says the student newspaper fired him Monday because of his conservative views.
Aviv Khavich published his
final column for
The Daily Targum Sunday night, arguing that immigration enforcement is not “anti-immigrant.”
He spoke as an immigrant himself, born in Israel after his Ashkenazi Jewish parents fled Belarus in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse.
But the trigger for the firing may have been Khavich’s demand that his column include the phrase “illegal aliens” to describe those in the country illegally.
It was the final straw for the
Daily’s editor, who said Khavich repeatedly fought over “stylistic” editing changes to his columns over the past several months.
‘Undocumented’ isn’t correct, either
Khavich has written six pieces for the
Daily, four since joining as a columnist.
His first defended Yiannopoulos’s speech as protected by the First Amendment, saying that “offensive speech … needs the most protection.”
Later columns
disparaged socialism, questioned the
Black Lives Matter movement and
praised Donald Trump as the presidential candidate of “peace” and called Hillary Clinton a “warmonger.”
But two of his last three were about immigration. Khavich opposes
accepting Syrian refugees into America as a security threat, and his final column Sunday said flatly: “Justice is mass deportation. Justice is respecting my [legal immigrant] family and millions of others like us.”
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