Liberal America was belatedly shocked by Donald Trump’s order to arrest and deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Green Card–holding US resident who has been one of the chief leaders of the Palestine solidarity movement at Columbia University. Is the stripping of nationality for critics of US support for Israel coming next?

That, at least, is the call that has been directed in recent weeks against Rima Hassan, a Franco-Palestinian jurist and member of the European Parliament (MEP). She today finds herself in the crosshairs of a campaign of character assassination.

Elected to the European Parliament last June on the France Insoumise ticket, Hassan rapidly became a leading spokesperson for the left-wing party’s push for a cease-fire to the Israeli invasion and blockade of the Gaza Strip. For that, she has also become one of the most controversial figures in French public life — and the political establishment’s favorite straw man for the supposed excesses of new left-wing forces’ stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict.