Like many an institution that started with a clear, legitimate purpose and drifted left, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has a new name—and, with it, a new and distorted set of priorities.

Rebranding as the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression allowed it to keep the acronym, FIRE, but to abandon its tight focus on protecting free speech and ideological diversity on university campuses. That’s left it free to focus on other issues—including its latest endeavor, joining a legal petition by two unnamed student journalists at Stanford University who “fear adverse immigration action” for their writing.

The students claim that the Trump administration’s interpretation of immigration law is blocking their supposedly unlimited right to “protected” speech while here on temporary F1 student visas. What they want to write about is the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and, judging by the complaint, they are not on Israel’s side.

The case FIRE joined highlights Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestine activist who arrived on a student visa and recently got his green card (permanent residence) through marriage. They also cite Mohsen Mahdawi, another student-turned-permanent resident who has reportedly been enrolled in

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